David Gower's Top 50 Cricketers of All Time

[Migara]

Big gap between the rankings of Warne and Murali.

And McGrath is criminally low if this is according to order.

 

[BazBall21]

Yeah McGrath is too low

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Yeah McGrath is too low

As is Hadlee

 

[trundler]

No disrespect but every bowler Roberts is ahead of other than Thomson (????) is better than him.

 

[Anil]

Who are Fred Tru,an and Joel Harner?

 

[Coronis]

Who are Fred Tru,an and Joel Harner?

I thought we were only calling out spelling mistakes when we could make a joke or pun out of them now..

 

[Fuller Pilch]

1. Don Bradman
2. Garry Sobers
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Shane Warne
5. Viv Richards
6. Brian Lara
7. Jack Hobbs
8. Wally Hammond
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. W.G. Grace

Top 10 looks very batting centric. Just Warne and Marshall as specialist bowlers, plus a batting allrounder in Sobers (although Hammond and WG were handy with the ball).

 

[trundler]

Tendulkar and Warne usually get overrated in these things.

 

[BazBall21]

Tendulkar and Warne usually get overrated in these things.

Helps that Warne is absolutely adored in England.

 

[Burgey]

no Anderson or Cook

crap list

It’s an AT list though, not an England at home since 2011 list.

 

[Burgey]

Only to believe that Holding, Waqar, Donald were not explosive...whatever suits you mate

They’re all way over rated on here tbh

 

[trundler]

Helps that Warne is absolutely adored in England.

Objectively, Tendulkar or Warne should never be that far ahead of McGrath, if at all. And there's absolutely no reason to rate Graeme Pollock or Barry Richards a better cricketer than McGrath. That's just lunacy.

 

[BazBall21]

Objectively, Tendulkar or Warne should never be that far ahead of McGrath, if at all. And there's absolutely no reason to rate Graeme Pollock or Barry Richards a better cricketer than McGrath. That's just lunacy.

I’ve got McGrath over Warne yeah. Guess some will take ‘broader greatness’ into account more which helps Warne, Tendulkar to a lesser extent and a few others like Frank Worrell for example. Roberts’ placing is very eccentric.

 

[ataraxia]

Gilchrist is 30 to 40 places too low IMO.

also yay Wilf!

 

[trundler]

I’ve got McGrath over Warne yeah. Guess some will take ‘broader greatness’ into account more which helps Warne, Tendulkar to a lesser extent and a few others like Frank Worrell for example. Roberts’ placing is very eccentric.

I understand why that would elevate Border or Worrell when you look at the legacy they built but when you strip away media hype Warne and Tendulkar don't really have any edge over Marshall or Murali or Hutton, IMO. All round skill and captaincy complicate things a bit but I'd have the guys I named on one plane of greatness.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Thommo rated 39th in the CW rating of quick bowlers, but 49th in Gower's record of all cricketers! Meanwhile he rated KP as the 47th best cricketer, yet he didn't make our top 50 batsmen!

 

[Fuller Pilch]

As allrounders I think Procter and Faulkner are 2 big omissions. A few openers from Greenidge, Trumper, Simpson, Hayden, Smith, Boycott etc are unlucky.

Current players obviously not considered as Steve Smith would walk in.

 

[CricAddict]

Huge from Gilchrist as the only keeper to make the cut (not counting AB)

You have Gilchrist, Knott, Sanga and AB in the list. 4 keepers in a 50 member list is fine.

 

[Charlie B]

George Lohmann

 

[ashley bach]

You have Gilchrist, Knott, Sanga and AB in the list. 4 keepers in a 50 member list is fine.

I missed Knott and wasn't really counting AB or Sanga as keepers, but yeah 4 on the list feels about right.