CW's 50 Best ODI Cricketers of all time - 2017 Edition

[mr_mister]

I only used 8 noms in my initial post. Will second Nathan Astle

 

[srbhkshk]

I probably have a second left, I'll nominate Rahul Dravid.

 

[NUFAN]

Astle and Dravid have now qualified.

I'll leave it open for another 24 hours - I can't see any glaring omissions.

 

[NUFAN]

I was thinking about some decent players who have been overlooked.

Mahela Jayawardene - Andy Flower - Ramnaresh Sarwan - Mohammad Yousuf - Michael Clarke - Mohammad Azharuddin - Ajit Agarkar - Mitchell Johnson - Brad Hogg - Imran Tahir - Courtney Walsh.

Gautam Gambhir - Glenn Turner - Steve Smith - Arjuna Ranatunga - Allan Border - Dwayne Bravo - Moin Khan - Javagal Srinath - Gavin Larsen - Bob Willis - Ajantha Mendis

 

[mr_mister]

Hoggie unlucky actually

Ranatunga too

 

[NUFAN]

Marvan Atapattu - Romesh Kaluwitharana - Jonathan Trott - Shivnarine Chanderpaul - Darren Lehmann - Misbah ul Haq - Thomas Odoya - Irfan Pathan - Anil Kumble - Zaheer Khan - Morne Morkel

 

[Daemon]

None of those are ever going to be top 50 though so whatevs

 

[NUFAN]

I think that most of the names I've mentioned belong in the conversation though. I'm pretty sure that I could find a worse top 6 out of players selected than my teams. I admit that the bowlers who have qualified are mostly all great.

 

[bagapath]

As the father of this unholy child NUFAN has the authority to nominate 25 more names.

Mr Nufan. Please release the pool of 125 nominees and invite everyone to send in their top 25 to you.

Just like Mark Nicholas screamed after Virat Kohli caught the last man out in the 2011 Semi Final, "Let the PPParty begin"

 

[NUFAN]

I'm going to allow people to name their top 50 if they like too btw. If they nominate 50 the points will go 25, 24.5, 24 23.5 etc if they nominate 25, it will go 25, 24, 23 - unless everyone thinks that is rubbish.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

50 is a hell of a lot to place in order. I think it's quite tough to even come up with a definitive top 10.

 

[Daemon]

Just a suggestion NUFAN - Use surveymonkey. Create a survey with just the one question in the 'ranking' format. Add all the names that make the cutoff and then people can go through it, easily dragging and dropping and rearranging the names as they please. I think you'll get a lot more people involved that way and it'll make the counting process for you really easy.

 

[srbhkshk]

50 is a hell of a lot to place in order. I think it's quite tough to even come up with a definitive top 10.

I agree with this - 20-25 is more than enough IMO. 50 would just lead to people missing a lot of obvious names.

 

[NUFAN]

Just a suggestion NUFAN - Use surveymonkey. Create a survey with just the one question in the 'ranking' format. Add all the names that make the cutoff and then people can go through it, easily dragging and dropping and rearranging the names as they please. I think you'll get a lot more people involved that way and it'll make the counting process for you really easy.

Great idea. I'll give it a go.

 

[jaideep]

50 is a hell of a lot to place in order. I think it's quite tough to even come up with a definitive top 10.

Agree with this.It should be 25.

 

[NUFAN]

Voting has opened again.

Maybe record your picks somewhere because I'm not certain I've done it in a way that will make it easy to see who has received the most votes.

 

[morgieb]

Why are there two Nick Knight's there?

 

[Daemon]

Will get on this at work tomorrow

 

[honestbharani]

Why are there two Nick Knight's there?

Coz he is that good..

 

[NUFAN]

FFS. Thanks Morgie.