CW chooses the best test spinner ever (50 names, but you only submit a list of 20)

[OverratedSanity]

1. Murali
2. Warne
3. O'Reilly
4. Grimmett
5. Laker
6. Tayfield
7. Verity
8. Kumble
9. Underwood
10. Benaud
11. Herath
12. Bedi
13. Gibbs
13. Chandrasekhar
14. Trumble
15. Blythe
16. Gupte
17. Ashwin
18. Prasanna
19. Briggs
20. MacGill

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Actually I’ll do it now
1. Clarrie Grimmett
2. Shane Warne
3. Hedley Verity
4. Bill O’Reilly
5. Wilfred Rhodes
6. Bishen Bedi
7. Jim Laker
8. Tich Freeman
9. Bert Vogler
10. Subhash Gupte
11. Richie Benaud
12. Ravi Ashwin
13. Anil Kumble
14. Sonny Ramadhin
15. Rangana Herath
16. Hugh Tayfield
17. Saqlain Mushtaq
18. Bernard Bosanquet
19. Ashley Mallett
20. Erapalli Prasanna

 

[mr_mister]

Actually I’ll do it now
1. Clarrie Grimmett
2. Shane Warne
3. Hedley Verity
4. Bill O’Reilly
5. Wilfred Rhodes
6. Bishen Bedi
7. Jim Laker
8. Tich Freeman
9. Bert Vogler
10. Subhash Gupte
11. Richie Benaud
12. Ravi Ashwin
13. Anil Kumble
14. Sonny Ramadhin
15. Rangana Herath
16. Hugh Tayfield
17. Saqlain Mushtaq
18. Bernard Bosanquet
19. Ashley Mallett
20. Erapalli Prasanna

I assume you're in the 'he was a chucker' camp?

 

[The Battlers Prince]

I’m happy with my 20 if that’s what you’re asking, I don’t believe I’ve overlooked anyone

 

[Bolo]

1. Murali
2. Warne
3. O'Reilly
4. Grimmett
5. Laker
6. Tayfield
7. Verity
8. Kumble
9. Underwood
10. Benaud
11. Gibbs
12. MacGill
13. Swann
13. Chandrasekhar
14. Trumble
15. Blythe
16. Gupte
17. Ashwin
18. Briggs
19. Herath
20. Saqlain

Just a couple of edits to OS's list tbh. Agree with all of the top guys and don't have much of an opinion either way on some of the lower guys.

 

[kingkallis]

TOP 5

Muttiah Muralitaharan
Shane Warne
Bill O'Reilly
Clarrie Grimmett
Jim Laker

6-10

Hugh Tayfield
Hedley Verity
Richie Benaud
Anil Kumble
Rangana Herath

11-20

Derek Underwood
Lance Gibbs
Erapalli Prasanna
Johnny Wardle
Subhash Gupte
Saqlain Mushtaq
Bishan Bedi
Tony Lock
Ravi Ashwin
Colin Blythe

 

[kingkallis]

WOW! I cant believe people are omitting Muralitaharan completely.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Ok

 

[trundler]

Great work. Tiger should be number one. Will be posting my list soon.
.

 

[mr_mister]

Ok

Mate were just poking fun. Variety is good

 

[Prince EWS]

Please cast your vote. Use your standardized averages may be

Yeah I plan on doing the same thing I did in the fast bowlers thread, but I'm going to do it tomorrow to make sure we don't have another Trumble incident.

 

[mr_mister]

^There will be no more edits to the OP ha.

 

[jimmy101]

Warne
O'Reilly
Muralitharan
Laker
Verity
Gupte
Grimmett
Rhodes
Bedi
Peel
Qadir
Underwood
Wardle
Tayfield
Saqlain
Kumble
Prasanna
Chandrasekhar
Gibbs
Benaud

 

[jimmy101]

Special mention to Johnny Gleeson.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Mate were just poking fun. Variety is good

Hence putting Bosey in. Imagine what spin bowling would be without him!

 

[trundler]

Imagine how much better cricket would be be if not for the guy that invented off tweak.

 

[ankitj]

One outlier vote can completely change the outcome.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Na offspin and left arm orthodox has worked well. Hence it being “orthodox” even though they’re bowling cacky handed

 

[The Battlers Prince]

One outlier vote can completely change the outcome.

No doubt, my missus is a scientist, I hear about outliers all the bloody time

 

[TheJediBrah]

WOW! I cant believe people are omitting Muralitaharan completely.

I only included Murali because I knew people would have this reaction if I didn't tbh