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    How would you rank the greatest test teams of all-time?

    Hutton's 1950's England team
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    CW's Ranking of Batsmen (Tests)

    George Headley
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    All time world test XI selection

    Weekes Grimmett
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    CW's Ranking of Batsmen (Tests)

    Viv Richards
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    CW's Ranking of Batsmen (Tests)

    Sobers
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    CW's Ranking of Batsmen (Tests)

    Hobbs. Virtually all his contemporaries regarded him as the most complete and technically perfect batsman of all time.
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    All time world test XI selection

    Hammond was a terrible captain despite his greatness as a cricketer. I'm astonished that so many people would select him. Steve Smith, whatever his flaws, is far, far preferable in that role.
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    All time world test XI selection

    Richards Gavaskar Ambrose Hadlee
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    As far as I know no one on this thread has suggested that we must accept blindly any individual's evaluations of particular players, however distinguished that individual may be. That sounds like a straw man. For the record, I have disagreed with some of the assessments offered by players as...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Admiration for Compton's batting is not merely an exercise in nostalgia. Contemporaries expressed the same feelings - he was the biggest draw in English cricket in the decade after the war. You need only to read the reports of the 1947 season, when he scored 18 centuries, to see this. In...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    This is a decidedly idiosyncratic assessment of Denis Compton's batting, to put it mildly. "Solid" is not a term generally used to describe it. Instead, players like Trevor Bailey, Tom Graveney and Dennis Amiss among others described him as the most brilliant English strokeplayer they had ever...
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    Famous Batsmen You Didn't Like to Watch

    On the whole I preferred watching Lawry bat rather than Glenn Turner. :)
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    As far as I can tell, EVERYONE who actually saw Sobers bowl would agree that he was most effective as a seamer. He did begin his career as a slow left arm spinner, but developed as a seam bowler after playing League cricket in England. He took most of his Test wickets bowling pace and swing...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    No, he can't. Sobers was a better seam bowler than a spinner. I would be happy to have him as a second spinner, but not as the principal one in an all-time team.
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    I respectfully disagree on both counts. Gibbs was a MUCH better bowler than you suggest. He bowled very well everywhere (in Australia, England, India and Pakistan) and could be relied upon to win a match for the West Indies in virtually every series played during his prime, which lasted for a...
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    Mount Rushmore names of each country

    Kanhai should replace Kallicharran in that list. :)
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    Sir Vivian Richards - master or myth?

    No, we can't. How many international cricketers have called Sehwag the best batsman they have ever seen?
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    Your favorite batsman to watch bat!!!

    I'm a great Barry Richards fan. He doesn't seem to be very highly regarded in this forum, mainly because most posters never saw him bat and he never had the opportunity to play much Test cricket. I've seen suggestions that he might have become another Graeme Hick. Those of us who were around...
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    Your favorite batsman to watch bat!!!

    The very best of Garry Sobers was probably the best of my time, but I never saw any batsman as consistently exciting as Viv Richards. He dominated bowlers and destroyed bowling attacks in a way that had to be seen to be believed. Fortunately the highlights from some of his great innings have...
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    Zaheer Abbas vs Ian Chappell

    Lloyd and Holding both ranked Chappell very highly - in fact, they are on record as preferring him to his younger brother Greg. That seems to me to be an exaggeration, but I can understand why they hold that view. Zaheer was one of my favorite batsmen during the 1970's. He played a series of...

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