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    The CW50 - The Top 3

    A fairly predictable top three, which in itself is a tribute to the talents of the players involved. And I echo everyone else in saying great work Sean.
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    Best left handed batsman of all time

    As the person who brought up the Richards-Gavaskar comparison, an explanation may be in order. One of the things that we can do when looking at the history of cricket is identify the successive players who were regarded as holding the title of best batsman/best fast bowler/best slow bowler in...
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    Best left handed batsman of all time

    Sheer laziness has a lot to do with it. I read far more than I post. I wish that one or two posters would follow my example in this respect :) but in general the quality of posting in this forum is extremely high. There are at least a dozen contributors whose views are always interesting even...
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    Best left handed batsman of all time

    Sobers also faced Lindwall, Miller, Trueman, Statham, Fazal Mahmood, Bedi, Benaud, Chandrasekhar, Gupte and Underwood. This is as least as impressive a group of bowlers as those faced by Lara. Sobers played 44 Tests in the West Indies and 49 away from home. Lara played 65 Tests in the West...
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    Best left handed batsman of all time

    That's not the assumption or the issue at stake here. The argument is not Pollock versus Sobers and Lara, but Sobers, Lara and Pollock versus everybody else. I believe this trio would be the left handers who would obtain the most votes in any poll of cricketers, journalists and fans. For...
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    Best left handed batsman of all time

    It's always difficult to rate players who for one reason or another played very little Test cricket. This applies not only to to the South Africans of Pollock's generation but also to other players like George Headley. I think, however, that if we were to ask cricketers, journalists and...
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    Best left handed batsman of all time

    Kanhai was a right hander.
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    Best left handed batsman of all time

    Yes, by a fair margin, followed (in no particular order) by Pollock and Lara. Those three are the ONLY left handed batsmen who have ever been seriously considered for an all-time world XI.
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    Can A be 'greater' than B and B 'greater' than C but C 'greater' than A?

    If someone believes that A>B and B>C but C>A that person has what an economist would describe as intransitive preferences. Intransitive preferences are generally considered to be irrational, as the following example shows. If you believe that A>B there will be some small amount of money that...
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    World XI the day you were born

    Kanhai was one of my boyhood cricketing heroes. He was a dazzling stroke player, with every stroke in the book and several which were not. All things considered, he was the most exciting batsman I have ever seen with the sole exception of Viv Richards. And yet, strangely enough, he is not...
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    Which team was the greatest

    Marshall was MUCH faster than Garner, at least. At his peak he was the world's fastest bowler.
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    The 10 Greatest Test Captains

    Richard: Great post as usual You might want to add Ray Illingworth to the list. He was, with Brearley, the shrewdest tactician England has produced since the war. And John Goddard was NOT a good, much less a great, captain. He had no idea of how to dismiss a side other than by bowling...
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    Who would you pick in the Greatest Cricket XI of YOUR Lifetime?

    I picked both Sobers and Imran in my team. Without rehashing the Sobers versus Imran versus Botham versus Kallis debate, Sobers' place is fairly secure, for the simple reason that he was a better batsman than anyone else who has played since the 1960's. I very much wanted Imran in my side, and...
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    Who would you pick in the Greatest Cricket XI of YOUR Lifetime?

    1. Barry Richards 2. Gavaskar 3. Viv Richards 4. Tendulkar 5. Sobers 6. Gilchrist 7. Imran Khan 8. Marshall 9. Warne 10. Lillee 11. Murali Looks like (apart from SJS) I'm one of the few posters here who saw the great players of the 1960's and early 70's. However, my team includes only two...
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    Who would you pick in the Greatest Cricket XI of YOUR Lifetime?

    Crowe and Gower ahead of Ponting and Tendulkar? Engineer ahead of Gilchrist? Clarke ahead of Ambrose, McGrath or Wasim Akram? Chandrasekhar ahead of Warne?
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    CMJ's top 100

    Shouldn't W.G. be classified as an all rounder?
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    CW Ranks the Batsmen

    This is almost identical to the all-time XI that would be selected from Christopher Martin-Jenkins' list. The only two changes are that Hammond would replace Tendulkar and Warne would come in for Murali. Food for thought.
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    Greatest LIVING Cricketers

    From my perspective the difficulty with these questions is that they require me to compare the two best batsmen I have seen - not the easiest thing in the world. Anyway, I believe that the answer to the first two questions is Garry Sobers. (a) Most cricketers admire Richards, but even more...
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    CW Ranks the Bowlers

    Davidson Roberts
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    CW Ranks the Batsmen

    Barry Richards Compton I'm really surprised that neither of these two has been selected in the top 20.

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