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    "Best ever" teams selected by former players or experts- whose is best?

    Watson: There's no doubt that Gavaskar was a great player. In fact, the second sentence of my original post reads " He was a truly great player who deserves to be ranked among the best of all time." I just believe that Hutton and Barry Richards have stronger claims for inclusion in an all...
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    Which Decade Produced The Greatest Players?

    I selected these teams on the assumption that they would play a seven Test series in a wide variety of conditions - with one match played in Australia, at least one in England (at Lords, of course), one in India, one in Pakistan, one in the West Indies, another in South Africa, etc. A few...
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    "Best ever" teams selected by former players or experts- whose is best?

    I think that it would be a bit unfair to describe Gavaskar as "a fair weather batsman." He was a truly great player who deserves to be ranked among the best of all time. Having said that, he doesn't really belong in an all-time World XI. His greatness has been exaggerated, largely because he...
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    Which Decade Produced The Greatest Players?

    Many debates in this and other sports forums consist of comparisons between players of different eras. I have always thought that each generation has produced players who would have been considered great in every era. In order to test this I created teams based on the decade of their birth...
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    Ranking Nations in terms of producing Batsmen and Bowlers

    Is this meant to be an all time ranking or one that applies only to recent years? Those criteria would yield very different selections.
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    Batsmen's highest / lowest / final averages

    No love for Barry Richards? I know he didn't play much Test cricket, but he had an impeccable technique and was a brilliant strokeplayer as well. Many who saw him play would rank him above either Hutton or Gavaskar, and certainly well ahead of his Hampshire opening colleague, Gordon Greenidge...
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    BEST end to a TEST career

    Seymour Nurse's last six Test scores were 137, 95,168, 21,16 and 258.
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    West Indies ATG Team- Open Voting

    I'll opt for Greenidge and Hunte as the openers in the WI team.
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    Why is the lower middle order specialist so under-rated?

    How is "lower middle order specialist" being defined for the purpose of this thread? There is a HUGE difference between players who bat at number 5 or 6 (and who would be considered recognized batsmen) and those who bat at 7 or 8. Allan Border is regarded as one of Australia's greatest...
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    West Indies ATG Team- Open Voting

    Should an ATG WI team include a specialist spin-bowler?: YES
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    West Indies ATG Team- Open Voting

    +1. I'm really surprised at the number of posters who believe that this team needs a FOURTH right arm fast bowler rather than a top-class spinner. The issue is not whether Garner (or any other preferred candidate for fourth seamer) is a better bowler than Gibbs but rather which bowler adds the...
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    Killer Records Against 1 Team

    You're absolutely right. I forgot that the scores had to be against one team.
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    Killer Records Against 1 Team

    Actually, five - and he was run out for 90 in his next innings!
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    How great is your all time great Team ??

    SJS - Great stuff. Trumper is the most difficult of all batsmen to evaluate. Although his statistics are unspectacular, many of his contemporaries rated him a better batsman than Hobbs or even Bradman. He was perhaps the most brilliant strokeplayer ever, and he's certainly the batsman I...
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    Killer Records Against 1 Team

    Interestingly enough, Fiery Fred never played in India. All his successes were achieved in England - some of them on very green wickets in 1952.
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    The CW50 - No.7

    I disagree. All assessments of bowling efficacy are necessarily comparative, and these statistics show that Sobers' bowling performances were comparable to those of the other leading wicket takers of his era. You could, of course, deny that any of these bowlers (well, other than Trueman) were...
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    The CW50 - The Top 3

    Yes, he would. I'm always surprised that he does not receive more support in these polls.. Ames was a great wicketkeeper who was good enough to hold his place in a strong Test side as a batsman alone. You really can't ask for more.
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    The CW50 - No.7

    Imran was a great cricketer. I understand that you are a fan of his, but you do his legacy a great disservice by denigrating other cricketers in an attempt to show that Imran is the greatest all rounder of all time - a view that is not generally held among cricketers and cricket analysts. To...
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    Best left handed batsman of all time

    He actually averaged 114 in that series, not 95. :)
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    Best left handed batsman of all time

    Let's take these points in order. 1. Quality of bowling. I presented a long list of bowlers that Sobers faced in his Test career. That list includes Lindwall, Miller, Trueman, Statham, Davidson, McKenzie, Snow, Fazal Mahmood, Bedi, Benaud, Chandrasekhar, Gupte, Laker (omitted from my original...

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