CW chooses the 2 best bowlers ever: 60 spinners + 100 pacemen in 2 separate contests

[viriya]

Jacques Kallis? I think that any sane batsman would much rather face Kallis than Adcock and Heine. But Kallis did take a lot of wickets I guess.

Strange mentality.

Actually I forgot about Adcock, this never happened...

 

[mr_mister]

I'm back!


Aussie spinners thru to round 2:

Warne (12 votes)
O'Reilly (12 votes)
Grimmett (12 votes)
Benaud (10 votes)
MacGill (7 votes)
Trumble (7 votes)
Mailey (6 votes)
Ironmonger (4 votes)
Iverson (1 vote)
Saunders (1 vote)
Fleetwood-Smith (0 votes)
Mallet (0 votes)


Saffers quicks thru to round 2:

Donald (12 votes)
Steyn (12 votes)
Adcock (12 votes)
Shaun Pollock (12 votes)
Peter Pollock (11 votes)
Procter (11 votes)
Van der Bijl (9 votes)
Le Roux (5 votes)
Ntini (4 votes)
Philander (4 votes)
Heine 3 votes)
Morkel (1 vote)
De Villiers (1 vote)
Matthews (0 votes)
Goddard (0 votes)
Kallis (0 votes



now this will be interesting, one country known for their spinners and one known for their pacers


Best Spinner ever, Round 1, Heat 2:

CHOOSE YOUR TOP 7 SPINNERS

India (14 players)

Vinoo Mankad
Subhash Gupte
Bapu Nadkarni
Bishen Bedi
Erapalli Prasanna
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
Dilip Doshi
Narenda Hirwani
Ravi Shastri
Anil Kumble
Harbhajan Singh
Ravi Ashwin
Ravi Jadeja


Best Pacemen ever, Round 1, Heat 2:

CHOOSE YOUR TOP 8 PACEMEN



West Indies (16 players)

Learie Constantine
Manny Martindale
Wes Hall
Roy Gilchrist
Charlie Griffith
Gerry Gomez
Andy Roberts
Malcolm Marshall
Joel Garner
Michael Holding
Colin Croft
Sylvester Clarke
Curtley Ambrose
Courtney Walsh
Ian Bishop
Winston Benjamin

 

[morgieb]

Subhash Gupte
Erapalli Prasanna
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
Anil Kumble
Bishen Bedi
Harbhajan Singh
Ravi Ashwin

Wes Hall
Andy Roberts
Malcolm Marshall
Joel Garner
Michael Holding
Curtley Ambrose
Courtney Walsh
Ian Bishop

 

[Burgey]

Collective lack of cricketing wisdom on this site is shown up by Allan Border not making it to round two in the Aussie spinners poll.

 

[viriya]

Best Spinner ever, Round 1, Heat 2:

Anil Kumble
Ravi Ashwin
Bishen Bedi
Harbhajan Singh
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
Erapalli Prasanna
Vinoo Mankad

Best Pacemen ever, Round 1, Heat 2:

Malcolm Marshall
Curtly Ambrose
Courtney Walsh
Michael Holding
Joel Garner
Wes Hall
Andy Roberts
Ian Bishop

 

[jimmy101]

Subhash Gupte
Bishen Bedi
Erapalli Prasanna
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
Dilip Doshi
Anil Kumble
Ravi Ashwin

Wes Hall
Andy Roberts
Malcolm Marshall
Joel Garner
Michael Holding
Sylvester Clarke
Curtley Ambrose
Courtney Walsh

(Also submitting a couple of phantom votes for Franklyn Stephenson & George Francis)

 

[AndrewB]

Subhash Gupte
Bishen Bedi
Erapalli Prasanna
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
Dilip Doshi
Anil Kumble
Harbhajan Singh


Wes Hall
Andy Roberts
Malcolm Marshall
Joel Garner
Michael Holding
Colin Croft
Sylvester Clarke
Curtley Ambrose

 

[Red]

Best Spinner ever, Round 1, Heat 2:

CHOOSE YOUR TOP 7 SPINNERS

India (14 players)

Vinoo Mankad
Subhash Gupte
Bapu Nadkarni
Bishen Bedi
Erapalli Prasanna
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
Dilip Doshi
Narenda Hirwani
Ravi Shastri
Anil Kumble
Harbhajan Singh
Ravi Ashwin
Ravi Jadeja


Best Pacemen ever, Round 1, Heat 2:

CHOOSE YOUR TOP 8 PACEMEN



West Indies (16 players)

Learie Constantine
Manny Martindale
Wes Hall
Roy Gilchrist
Charlie Griffith
Gerry Gomez
Andy Roberts
Malcolm Marshall
Joel Garner
Michael Holding
Colin Croft
Sylvester Clarke
Curtley Ambrose
Courtney Walsh
Ian Bishop
Winston Benjamin

.

 

[viriya]

This happening?

 

[mr_mister]

yeah but like... i'm not gonna end the heat after 5 votes