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CW decides the greatest All-Rounder ever, 64 man knockout tournament: Voting Thread

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
So we're deciding the greatest All-Rounder ever. We are including any and all formats of cricket when deciding our vote, Test, FC, ODI, Twenty20, List A and T20.

Greatest All-Rounder Ever - Challonge

There's the bracket. I ended up randomizing again it as this is a fairly wide open race so seeding would have been a little silly I think. Having said that, there are two names that always come up when discussing the title of greatest AR ever and as chance would have it they can't run into each other until very late in the piece. There are no howlers like McGrath drawing Marshall in round 2 of the bowling tournament I think so that's good.

I think there are some interesting match-ups here in round 1.

Slogger vs Slogger and Country vs Country appear a few times. A few matches that might have occurred a little later than round 1 or 2 had i seeded, but oh well. I like the unpredictability.


I apologise again for making people vote 32 times in round 1, it's always an effort.


Here we are, the matches(should last around 48 hours):

Round 1:

Dan Vettori vs Frank Foster
Trevor Bailey vs Tony Greig
Wasim Akram vs Shane Watson
George Giffen vs Monty Noble

Ravi Ashwin vs Abdul Razzaq
Chris Harris vs Neil Johnson
Gilbert Jessop vs Lance Klusener
Jacques Kallis vs Aubrey Faulkner

Andrew Flintoff vs Warwick Armstrong
Kapil Dev vs Maurice Tate
Shaun Pollock vs WG Grace
Imran Khan vs Frank Woolley

Dwayne Bravo vs Keith Miller
Sanath Jayasuriya vs Gubby Allen
Ravi Bopara vs Richie Benaud
Wally Hammond vs Shahid Afridi

Mustaq Mohammad vs Andrew Symonds
Chris Gayle vs Angelo Matthews
Jacob Oram vs Shakib Al-Hasan
Chris Cairns vs Ravi Jadeja

Wilfred Rhodes vs John Reid
Vinoo Mankad vs Richard Hadlee
Ian Botham vs Ray Illingworth
Mitch Johnson vs Mike Procter

Mohammad Hafeez vs Ryan ten Doeschate
Azhar Mahmood vs Garry Sobers
Alan Davidson vs Steve Waugh
Clive Rice vs Trevor Goddard

Steve Tikolo vs Heath Streak
Jack Gregory vs Stuart Broad
Learie Constantine vs Carl Hooper
Chaminda Vaas vs Brian McMillan


I think group 6 and 3 are the groups of death. A lot of potential quarter finalists in both 8-packs yet only 1 in each can make the final 8.

oh well, vote away!
 
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mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I'm sorry. Being completely honest here because a lot of the noms that had him also featured Ajit Agarkar I put them down as joke votes in my mind, not even having a shot at Ajit either I just thought it's a running joke around here that he sucks. You'll see all my noms right after were joke noms too... I thought that's what we were doing. You guys naming Indian 'all-rounders' and I named austalian 'all-rounders'.

I'm sorry dude I see Jadeja is actually pretty deserving based on his stats, didn't know a lot about him tbh. All of this happened before Jbmac came in started nomming Imran, Hadlee, Botham, Sobers etc and I spent the whole thread using that as the leap-off point for the serious noms


In my defence I posted a 'qualified' list about 10 times over the past week, I wish you had let me know earlier that he was meant to be on there, technically.


EDIT - Ravi Jadeja has replaced JP Duminy
 
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Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
Dan Vettori vs Frank Foster
Trevor Bailey vs Tony Greig
Wasim Akram vs Shane Watson
George Giffen vs Monty Noble

Ravi Ashwin vs Abdul Razzaq
Chris Harris vs Neil Johnson
Gilbert Jessop vs Lance Klusener
Jacques Kallis vs Aubrey Faulkner

Andrew Flintoff vs Warwick Armstrong
Kapil Dev vs Maurice Tate
Shaun Pollock vs WG Grace
Imran Khan vs Frank Woolley

Dwayne Bravo vs Keith Miller
Sanath Jayasuriya vs Gubby Allen
Ravi Bopara vs Richie Benaud
Wally Hammond vs Shahid Afridi

Mustaq Mohammad vs Andrew Symonds
Chris Gayle vs Angelo Matthews
Jacob Oram vs Shakib Al-Hasan
Chris Cairns vs JP Duminy

Wilfred Rhodes vs John Reid
Vinoo Mankad vs Richard Hadlee
Ian Botham vs Ray Illingworth
Mitch Johnson vs Mike Procter

Mohammad Hafeez vs Ryan ten Doeschate
Azhar Mahmood vs Garry Sobers
Alan Davidson vs Steve Waugh (but if this is for ODIs as well my vote is for Waugh)
Clive Rice vs Trevor Goddard

Steve Tikolo vs Heath Streak
Jack Gregory vs Stuart Broad
Learie Constantine vs Carl Hooper
Chaminda Vaas vs Brian McMillan
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Right and Bopara was a totally serious nomination....

#GetJadejaIn
yeah trust me i thought it was dumb that people were nomming Bopara but was willing to honor the noms rule and had just forgot about Jadeja and page 1. completely my bad

like i said im sorry but the voting has already started now
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Alan Davidson vs Steve Waugh (but if this is for ODIs as well my vote is for Waugh)

first line of the thread >_>
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
was your Duminy nom a joke nom too *****? lol im annoyed i included him now over some others (including jadeja)

was just fatigued and wanted to get this going. extending the list from 32 to 64 really allowed some nuffies to sneak in ha
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
BIG UPDATE: I have replaced Duminy with Ravi Jadeja, who is vsing Chris Cairns. This will be the only alteration to the draw

ill bend my own morals and rules just this once because hey, its Chris Cairns
 
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mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
i just cant see any justification for Duminy. i dont rate his bowling highly enough for this. at least bopara did the rounds at domestic level

Irani probably deserves it more than Bopara for that tho. O what a mess. lets get to round 2 already
 
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cnerd123

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Dan Vettori vs Frank Foster
Trevor Bailey vs Tony Greig
Wasim Akram vs Shane Watson
George Giffen vs Monty Noble

Ravi Ashwin vs Abdul Razzaq
Chris Harris vs Neil Johnson
Gilbert Jessop vs Lance Klusener
Jacques Kallis vs Aubrey Faulkner

Andrew Flintoff vs Warwick Armstrong
Kapil Dev vs Maurice Tate
Shaun Pollock vs WG Grace
Imran Khan vs Frank Woolley

Dwayne Bravo vs Keith Miller
Sanath Jayasuriya vs Gubby Allen
Ravi Bopara vs Richie Benaud
Wally Hammond vs Shahid Afridi

Mustaq Mohammad vs Andrew Symonds
Chris Gayle vs Angelo Matthews
Jacob Oram vs Shakib Al-Hasan
Chris Cairns vs Ravi Jadeja

Wilfred Rhodes vs John Reid
Vinoo Mankad vs Richard Hadlee
Ian Botham vs Ray Illingworth
Mitch Johnson vs Mike Procter

Mohammad Hafeez vs Ryan ten Doeschate
Azhar Mahmood vs Garry Sobers
Alan Davidson vs Steve Waugh
Clive Rice vs Trevor Goddard

Steve Tikolo vs Heath Streak
Jack Gregory vs Stuart Broad
Learie Constantine vs Carl Hooper
Chaminda Vaas vs Brian McMillan
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Dan Vettori vs Frank Foster
Trevor Bailey vs Tony Greig
Wasim Akram vs Shane Watson
George Giffen vs Monty Noble

Ravi Ashwin vs Abdul Razzaq
Chris Harris vs Neil Johnson
Gilbert Jessop vs Lance Klusener
Jacques Kallis vs Aubrey Faulkner

Andrew Flintoff vs Warwick Armstrong
Kapil Dev vs Maurice Tate
Shaun Pollock vs WG Grace
Imran Khan vs Frank Woolley

Dwayne Bravo vs Keith Miller
Sanath Jayasuriya vs Gubby Allen
Ravi Bopara vs Richie Benaud
Wally Hammond vs Shahid Afridi

Mustaq Mohammad vs Andrew Symonds
Chris Gayle vs Angelo Matthews
Jacob Oram vs Shakib Al-Hasan
Chris Cairns vs Ravi Jadeja

Wilfred Rhodes vs John Reid
Vinoo Mankad vs Richard Hadlee
Ian Botham vs Ray Illingworth
Mitch Johnson vs Mike Procter

Mohammad Hafeez vs Ryan ten Doeschate
Azhar Mahmood vs Garry Sobers
Alan Davidson vs Steve Waugh
Clive Rice vs Trevor Goddard

Steve Tikolo vs Heath Streak
Jack Gregory vs Stuart Broad
Learie Constantine vs Carl Hooper
Chaminda Vaas vs Brian McMillan
 

viriya

International Captain
This should just focus on Tests imo.. combining Tests + ODIs +T20s makes comparisons with early era players unfair/impossible.. Not to mention the fact that you have to figure out if a player was as good as another player comparing different formats.. I would vote with just Tests in mind.. We should have a different thread for ODIs.
 

viriya

International Captain
Dan Vettori vs Frank Foster
Trevor Bailey vs Tony Greig
Wasim Akram vs Shane Watson
George Giffen vs Monty Noble

Ravi Ashwin vs Abdul Razzaq
Chris Harris vs Neil Johnson
Gilbert Jessop vs Lance Klusener
Jacques Kallis vs Aubrey Faulkner

Andrew Flintoff vs Warwick Armstrong
Kapil Dev vs Maurice Tate
Shaun Pollock vs WG Grace
Imran Khan vs Frank Woolley

Dwayne Bravo vs Keith Miller
Sanath Jayasuriya vs Gubby Allen
Ravi Bopara vs Richie Benaud
Wally Hammond vs Shahid Afridi

Mustaq Mohammad vs Andrew Symonds
Chris Gayle vs Angelo Matthews
Jacob Oram vs Shakib Al-Hasan
Chris Cairns vs JP Duminy

Wilfred Rhodes vs John Reid
Vinoo Mankad vs Richard Hadlee
Ian Botham vs Ray Illingworth
Mitch Johnson vs Mike Procter

Mohammad Hafeez vs Ryan ten Doeschate
Azhar Mahmood vs Garry Sobers
Alan Davidson vs Steve Waugh
Clive Rice vs Trevor Goddard

Steve Tikolo vs Heath Streak
Jack Gregory vs Stuart Broad
Learie Constantine vs Carl Hooper
Chaminda Vaas vs Brian McMillan
 

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