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Cricketweb decides the best bowler ever, another contest. Nominations thread

viriya

International Captain
George Lohmann
Clarrie Grimmett
Fazal Mahmood
Hugh Tayfield
Anil Kumble
Charlie Turner
Hugh Trumble
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Qualified:

Hadlee
Murali
Marshall
Warne
Ambrose
McGrath
Barnes
Wasim
Lillee
Imran
O'Reilly
Trueman
Steyn
Waqar
Donald
Holding
Bedser
Garner
Lindwall
Grimmett

Larwood, Laker and Walsh need 1 more nom to qualify
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
Laker nomination

Is one of the top 5 spinner IMO so should get into the 1st round at least
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
Of the top of my head, my ten would be:

Marshall
Ambrose
Lillee
McGrath
Wasim
Hadlee
O'Reilly
Warne
Laker
Murali
 

kyear2

Cricketer Of The Year
If we are going to 64 this is going to take forever.

And not to bear a dead horse. But let's be honest, how many players realistically can be considered the best.

McGrath Warne Lillee
Marshall Ambrose
Steyn
Muralitharan
Hadlee
Trueman Larwood (Fred)
Imran Wasim
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Qualified:

Hadlee
Murali
Marshall
Warne
Ambrose
McGrath
Barnes
Wasim
Lillee
Imran
O'Reilly
Trueman
Steyn
Waqar
Donald
Holding
Bedser
Garner
Lindwall
Grimmett
Larwood
Laker
Walsh



23 names in so far. 5 spinners, 18 paceman
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
kyear would you be opposed to 32 unseeded names? that's the middle ground between you and *****'s ideas.

The thing is, most of these 23 names so far are worthy of a top 8 seed
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
you know what, I like the idea of 64 so we're going with 64. Here's some reasons:

I'm interested in seeing which of the West Indies pacemen from the 70s/80s/90s will progress the furthest? Which won't get pass the first round?
I'm interested in seeing how spinners and paceman stack up against each other. I'd like about 20 spinners 6-7 will be insufficient.

So I'm taking matters into my own hands.

Qualified:

Hadlee
Murali
Marshall
Warne
Ambrose
McGrath
Barnes
Wasim
Lillee
Imran
O'Reilly
Trueman
Steyn
Waqar
Donald
Holding
Bedser
Garner
Lindwall
Grimmett
Larwood
Laker
Walsh

Some addtions, based on who I think would have been eventually nominated in:

Roberts
Gibbs
Colin Croft
Bishop
Wes Hall

Davidson
Mailey
Ironmonger
Thommo
Keith Miller
Dizzy
Spofforth
Benaud
Trumble
Turner

Tate
Verity
Lohmann
Snow
Willis
Underwood
Statham
Tyson
Briggs
Botham


Shaun Pollock
Peter Pollock
Tayfield
Procter
Adcock

Kumble
Kapil Dev
Bedi
Chandrasekhar
Prasanna
Gupte

Shoaib Akhtar
Asif
Fazal Mahmood
Qadir

Bond




64 names. A nice mix of countries, old players, new players, spinners and quickies

22 spinners and 42 pacemen

People happy with this? Any glaring omissions that should definitely be in there instead of the names I chose?


first edit - Replaced Saqlain and Anderson with Hall and Adcock

second edit - Replaced Streak and Ajmal with Prasanna and Subhash Gupte, giving the full spin quartet a place in here

third edit - Replaced Vaas with Charlie Turner

fourth edit - Maurice Tate in for MacGill
 
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