I remember that when I started Imran vs Miler thread,about half of people voting for Miller did so just to annoy me and same was the case with SJS's Imran vs Wasim thread.
I'm now curious enough to take a look.
On the previous poll, 24 people voted for Wasim, 6 of which might as well be excluded:
ansariaamir_leo - fly-by-night
Austin3169 - fly-by-night
ethos - fly-by-night
haroon510 - only ever votes for people who've played while he's been watching, not a good means of assessment at all
quick4mindia - I think this is a wahindiawah duplicate account
steds - this'll have been purely based on Wasim playing for Lancashire
Of the other 18:
archie mac - Aussie, certainly a general (by no means exclusive) pattern that Aussies think Imran < Wasim
Beleg - his reasons explained earlier in this thread
biased indian - interesting one
Burgey - Aussie, certainly a general (by no means exclusive) pattern that Aussies think Imran < Wasim
Eclipse - Aussie, certainly a general (by no means exclusive) pattern that Aussies think Imran < Wasim
funnygirl - possibly trying to wind Shoaib up
GeraintIsMyHero - not sure of his reasons TBH
grecian - no comment
gunner - too young to appreciate Imran I reckon
James_W - interested to hear the reasoning for that if poss
Matt79 - Aussie, certainly a general (by no means exclusive) pattern that Aussies think Imran < Wasim
Natman20 - very surprised he voted actually
neville cardus - very interesting
PhoenixFire - still don't think he's quite heard enough about Imran's brilliance TBH and honestly hope he might change his mind. Trying not to be patronising there, not meant that way at all.
Sanz - no comment
sledger - interesting one
Turbinator - very surprised he voted, wouldn't be surprised if he was indeed just mischief-making
Unattainableguy - too young to appreciate Imran probably
Trying not to be patronising to the Aussies, I'm well aware there's good reason for the near-universal consensus. And equally aware of those (iamdavid, pasag, The_Bunny) who voted the other way.
But really, I honestly think 8 of the above votes (not including any from Aussies actually) don't have a true appreciation of the game's history and voted Wasim purely because they knew a bit about him and near nothing about Imran. And I'd say there's just 1 who voted Imran who fits into the "not much historical knowledge" category (plus two more fly-by-nights in ashfield and sps).
Thus counting only votes from those who I think have genuine historical knowledge we have a tally:
Imran: 15
Wasim: 9 (4 of whom are Aussies)
There are also 19 votes (14 Imran, 5 Wasim) on this poll that did not appear on the last.
Only 1 person has voted differently on the two polls: Athlai (voted Imran on the first, Wasim on this). Prey, why is this John?