CW decides another one, the greatest All-Rounder ever. 32 players, Nomination thread!

[Fuller Pilch]

suprised Hammond hasn't gotten a single nom yet

Oops - meant to add old Wally along with WG

 

[Fuller Pilch]

John R Reid worth a shout too

 

[cnerd123]

Are wicket-keepers considered allrounders too? If so...

Gilchrist
Sangakarra
L Constantine
Solkar
Flintoff
John Reid
M Noble
WG Grace
Wilfred Rhodes
Mike Proctor
Mushtaq Mohammed
Tony Grieg

 

[OverratedSanity]

WG Grace needs a nomination or 5.

Also this bloke (great name btw) - 1st class batting average of 18 (by far the best of his era) and a bowling av of 1.35!!!
Fuller Pilch | England Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | ESPN Cricinfo

Strike rate of 4.7

 

[Coronis]

How do so many people misspell Procter?

 

[Midwinter]

MA Noble
WW Armstrong
G.Hirst
FS Jackson
KR Miller
G.Sobers
I Botham
R.Hadlee
K.Dev
I.Khan

Can I drop Jackson and Armstrong and put in Procter and John Reid ?

 

[jaideep]

Jack gregory
Trevor goddard
Wilfred rhodes
Shakib al hasan
Lance klusener
Mike procter
Daniel vettori
Vinoo mankad
Shane watson
Richie benaud

 

[GIMH]

To hell with including wicket keepers

 

[mr_mister]

To hell with including wicket keepers

yeah im of this opinion. it kinda just muddles things up. how do we compare gilchrist to imran? people were complaining about comparing spinners to quicks last time ha

 

[mr_mister]

Qualified:

Imran
Hadlee
Sobers
Botham
Miller
Kallis
Procter
Mankad
Flintoff
Grace(after my nom)
Kapil(after my nom)


my second batch of noms... taking it a bit more seriously this time

Wilfred Rhodes
Kapil
Klusener
S Pollock
Hammond
C Cairns
C Harris
Wasim
Heath Streak
Shakib

 

[cnerd123]

yeah im of this opinion. it kinda just muddles things up. how do we compare gilchrist to imran? people were complaining about comparing spinners to quicks last time ha

Updated my list.

 

[mr_mister]

did you already have Rhodes? If yes he is on 4, if no he's now on 5

 

[cnerd123]

added Mushtaq and Greig. Already had Rhodes.

 

[The Sean]

I'd be curious to know whether old Wilfred is getting so many votes due to him being such a FC colossus, or because a lot of people haven't accounted for the Rhodes Paradox (TM The Sean) at Test level.

 

[Camo999]

W Armstrong
D Vettori
C Cairns
R Benaud
A Davidson
C Rice
S Jayasuriya
A Faulkner
L Constantine
B D'Oliveira

 

[Anil]

Yes

i would be interested to know why, his career averages don't seem to support that rating but on the other hand, i have seen a lot of shaun and never seen peter perform whereas you have seen both...

 

[mr_mister]

I'd be curious to know whether old Wilfred is getting so many votes due to him being such a FC colossus, or because a lot of people haven't accounted for the Rhodes Paradox (TM The Sean) at Test level.

even at Test level his stats are pretty decent, but yeah FC is included in the voting so it makes sense. Also I love the ol timey players, their cricinfo pages are always a good read. Whats the Rhodes Paradox?

 

[JTemperance]

Garfield Sobers
Imran Khan
Jacques Kallis
Ian Botham
Chris Cairns
Kapil Dev
Shaun Pollock
Andrew Flintoff
Daniel Vettori

 

[Howe_zat]

even at Test level his stats are pretty decent, but yeah FC is included in the voting so it makes sense. Also I love the ol timey players, their cricinfo pages are always a good read. Whats the Rhodes Paradox?

At Test level, Rhodes was a left arm spinner who batted in the tail. He later had a second run in the side predominantly as an opening batsman. The Rhodes Paradox is that an even though an allrounder is someone who bats and bowls, someone who bats and bowls is not necessarily an allrounder.

Ftr I don't quite agree with the notion that Rhodes never had a genuine allround role. It is true that his batting came into the equation much later than his bowling, though.

 

[cnerd123]

I vote for Rhodes precisely because of the Rhodes paradox. Opening batsman, leading spinner, part time spinner, tail-ender, middle order stalwart, vice captain, captain, selector, then captain again. If he went through a mid-career crisis and took up wicketkeeping and slogging from number 7 then he'd be the GOAT.