Who Is The Greatest Ever West Indies Cricketer?

[Ford_GTHO351]

Who do you all think here is the greatest West Indies Cricketer?

(Some have replied back before in regards to why some players weren't on the poll, so I have added those players to the poll).

 

[luckyeddie]

A much better selection - still Sobers for me though.

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

Pretty hard to go past Sobers.He takes the cake for me.

 

[Ford_GTHO351]

Well I didn't vote in my poll as I have two choices for both forms of the game:

Test's: Garry Sobers
ODI's: Viv Richards

Though I reckon that if ODI's were around during most of Sobers career, then IMO he would of been a great ODI player.

 

[Craig]

GS Sobers for me.

I would name George Headley as the WI greatest ever batsmen.

Having Carl Hooper is a joke.

 

[Cloete]

why isn't "The Black Bradman" on there? Rohan Kanhai! I'd have to rate him up there. He has to be one of the best West Indian batsmen along with Headley, Sobers and Richards. However it stil has to be sobers for mine.

 

[tooextracool]

why isn't "The Black Bradman" on there? Rohan Kanhai! I'd have to rate him up there. He has to be one of the best West Indian batsmen along with Headley, Sobers and Richards. However it stil has to be sobers for mine.

uh george headley is "the black bradman"

 

[Craig]

Looks a clear lead for Sobers...

An amazing cricketing family is that Kanhai and Kallicharran are both uncles to Mahendra Nagamootoo. Talk about batting talent...

 

[tooextracool]

its hard to see how the official best living player can be out voted

 

[age_master]

its hard to see how the official best living player can be out voted

i beleive you owe me abit of Gilchrist praise in your sig.... and a Gilly avatar....

 

[a massive zebra]

I would have to go for Sobers.

Having Hooper on that list at the expense of Hunte is rather disturbing.

Here is my all time West Indies team:

Conrad Hunte
Viv Richards (cpt)
George Headley
Everton Weekes
Brian Lara
Gary Sobers
Jeff Dujon (wk)
Malcolm Marshall
Michael Holding
Curtley Ambrose
Joel Garner

12th Man: Learie Constantine

West Indies 'A'

Gordon Greenidge
Desmond Haynes
Rohan Kanhai
Alvin Kallicharran
Clive Lloyd
Frank Worrell (cpt)
Derek Murray (wk)
Wes Hall
Andy Roberts
Courtney Walsh
Lance Gibbs

12th Man: Roger Harper

An objection to Viv Richards batting at 2 is understandable, but those from 2-5 in the batting order are automatic selections, all are middle order batsmen, and Sobers must bat at 6. Sobers would provide the variety in the bowling attack with his left arm spin. Both 12th men were selected for their fielding and not on playing ability alone.

 

[Ford_GTHO351]

Having Carl Hooper is a joke.

Why shouldn't he be on the list.

102 Tests
227 ODI's
He has been captain of both sides.

 

[luckyeddie]

Quantity ¬= quality in Hooper's case

 

[a massive zebra]

Why shouldn't he be on the list.

102 Tests
227 ODI's
He has been captain of both sides.

On that basis Steve Waugh is the greatest player ever and Don Bradman was just an average Test player.

Hooper has a pretty average record, averaging mid 30s with the bat and almost 50 with the ball in Tests. He may be a reasonable player but there must have been dozens of better West Indies players in the past.

 

[Ford_GTHO351]

Having Hooper on that list at the expense of Hunte is rather disturbing.

I can't possibly add or remember every West Indies player when I was doing the poll.

I didn't put the other option on the poll for nothing.

 

[Ford_GTHO351]

On that basis Steve Waugh is the greatest player ever and Don Bradman was just an average Test player.

I can't put every darn statstic of Hooper's here, I meerly just wanted to point out SOME.

 

[Ford_GTHO351]

Hooper has a pretty average record, averaging mid 30s with the bat and almost 50 with the ball in Tests. He may be a reasonable player but there must have been dozens of better West Indies players in the past.

Hooper might not be a Sobers, but he was just like you said a reasonable player.

I have said this so many times, I can't put every West Indies player in a poll & though I know that some might not be satisfied with that explanation.

 

[tooextracool]

i beleive you owe me abit of Gilchrist praise in your sig.... and a Gilly avatar....

sure thing but could u tell me where i could get a good graphical gilly avatar?

 

[tooextracool]

I would have to go for Sobers.

Having Hooper on that list at the expense of Hunte is rather disturbing.

Here is my all time West Indies team:

Conrad Hunte
Viv Richards (cpt)
George Headley
Everton Weekes
Brian Lara
Gary Sobers
Jeff Dujon (wk)
Malcolm Marshall
Michael Holding
Curtley Ambrose
Joel Garner

12th Man: Learie Constantine

West Indies 'A'

Gordon Greenidge
Desmond Haynes
Rohan Kanhai
Alvin Kallicharran
Clive Lloyd
Frank Worrell (cpt)
Derek Murray (wk)
Wes Hall
Andy Roberts
Courtney Walsh
Lance Gibbs

12th Man: Roger Harper

An objection to Viv Richards batting at 2 is understandable, but those from 2-5 in the batting order are automatic selections, all are middle order batsmen, and Sobers must bat at 6. Sobers would provide the variety in the bowling attack with his left arm spin. Both 12th men were selected for their fielding and not on playing ability alone.

both teams seem allright except for the WI team having both garner and ambrose who bowl exactly the same way. i say put andy roberts in there....its no coincidence that gavaskar rates him as the best bowler hes ever faced...im sure the fact that he bowled 3-4 types of bouncers influenced that

 

[Ford_GTHO351]

Looks a clear lead for Sobers...

Well at the time of writing it was:

No.1: GS Sobers = 6 votes
=No.2: IVA Richards & GA Headley = 1 vote

The rest have zero votes.