Brian Lara
School Boy/Girl Captain
Mr Mister recently did that great thread listing the top 25 batsmen according to CW and I thought it would be fun to try to do the next 25 if anyone would be interested?
Also I was thinking of doing a re-rank of 20-30 after we complete this because I know some people felt strongly about some people missing the initial cut of the top 25.
I've excluded batsmen who haven't completed the bulk of their test career yet (Steve Smith, Kohli, Root, Kane etc).
My initial thoughts on batsmen 26-50 but open to opinions and changes:
Australia:
Michael Clarke
Adam Gilchrist
Neil Harvey
Matthew Hayden
Stan McCabe
West Indies:
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Gordon Greenidge
Rohan Kanhai
Clive Lloyd
Frank Worrell
England:
Ken Barrington
Geoffrey Boycott
Denis Compton
Peter May
South Africa:
Hashim Amla
AB de Villiers
Aubrey Faulkner
Dudley Nourse
Graeme Smith
India:
Virender Sehwag
Pakistan:
Younis Khan
Inzamam Ul-Haq
Mohammad Yousuf
New Zealand:
Martin Crowe
Zimbabwe:
Andy Flower
Really tough omissions including Morris, Simpson, Hill, Hussey, Macartney, Laxman, Pietersen, Cook, Gooch, Jayawardene
Happy to revise it on opinions though.
Also I was thinking of doing a re-rank of 20-30 after we complete this because I know some people felt strongly about some people missing the initial cut of the top 25.
I've excluded batsmen who haven't completed the bulk of their test career yet (Steve Smith, Kohli, Root, Kane etc).
My initial thoughts on batsmen 26-50 but open to opinions and changes:
Australia:
Michael Clarke
Adam Gilchrist
Neil Harvey
Matthew Hayden
Stan McCabe
West Indies:
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Gordon Greenidge
Rohan Kanhai
Clive Lloyd
Frank Worrell
England:
Ken Barrington
Geoffrey Boycott
Denis Compton
Peter May
South Africa:
Hashim Amla
AB de Villiers
Aubrey Faulkner
Dudley Nourse
Graeme Smith
India:
Virender Sehwag
Pakistan:
Younis Khan
Inzamam Ul-Haq
Mohammad Yousuf
New Zealand:
Martin Crowe
Zimbabwe:
Andy Flower
Really tough omissions including Morris, Simpson, Hill, Hussey, Macartney, Laxman, Pietersen, Cook, Gooch, Jayawardene
Happy to revise it on opinions though.