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  1. The Sean

    Clyde Walcott vs Kane Williamson

    This is my first one of these, and a comparison I've been thinking of recently. Two great batsmen, and both surely members of the All Time alphabetical W team. One known more for the purity of his technique, the other for his exceptional power. Both spectacularly prolific, but also marked down...
  2. The Sean

    Who should win the Man of the Match award here?

    One of the little projects of mine that I’ve been revisiting is a look at applying the Man of the Match award historically to Test matches from the times before it became commonplace to award it. There are, of course, many Tests for which there are multiple options for the award, but there are...
  3. The Sean

    Cricketing spiritual successors

    A bit of a left-field one, but I’ve not posted for an age and I’ve been thinking a bit about this for a while now. Who would you consider to be the spiritual successor to a player from that player’s past? I remember first thinking along these lines when Tendulkar was being compared with Bradman...
  4. The Sean

    Joe Root - Wisden's Leading Cricketer in the World

    So, the recently-departed England captain has been given the highest individual accolade in this year's Wisden - and after a superb 2021, he was always a strong contender for it. His award does, however, put us in a couple of strange situations: - An English player has now won this award for...
  5. The Sean

    ICC Awards 2021

    Perhaps not what was expected, Pakistan have dominated the ICC awards for men: - T20 Player of the Year: Mohammad Rizwan - ODI Player of the Year: Babar Azam - Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy Overall Player of the Year: Shaeen Afridi Only Joe Root kept Pakistan from a clean sweep, deservedly...
  6. The Sean

    Ranking the modern left-arm quicks

    As I frequently review and revise my historic rankings of players (because I’m a sad geek with no friends, shut up), one of those which I can never seem to settle on is that of left-arm quicks, particularly of the modern era. As a member of the Brotherhood Of Left Arm Quicks myself, this vexes...
  7. The Sean

    On the judgement of openers

    I was pondering cricket (as is often the case) and my thoughts drifted to opening batsmen, specifically their quality and the way in which they have been judged over cricket history. Thinking back to the early generations of Test cricket – from the first Test match until the Second World War...
  8. The Sean

    RIP Andy Ganteaume

    This seems to have slipped under the radar here as far as I can see (my apologies if I've missed a thread to it), but Andy Ganteaume - owner of Test cricket's highest ever batting average - died earlier this week. He was 95 (so he outscored Bradman there too!). And as Tony Cozier relates in...
  9. The Sean

    RIP Alfredo Di Stefano

    Arguably the greatest - and almost certainly the most complete - all-round player the world game has ever produced has died in his spiritual home of Madrid aged 88. The only man to score in five European Cup finals, and it's fair to say he changed the way the game was played. RIP. Legend Di...
  10. The Sean

    "Greatest Ever" Lists - A Modern Evolution

    As we are now on the eve of the top 10 for the latest iteration the CW50, I thought it might be interesting to look at some of the better-known rankings of the past 15 years to assess how such lists have (or haven't) evolved, and to see how CW's opinions compare with the wider cricketing world...
  11. The Sean

    Davo

    A great little piece on Cricinfo for those of you who haven't seen it where Alan Davidson - one of my personal heroes and, in my opinion, one of the most under-rated of all the truly great bowlers - shares thoughts on, well, a lot of things. Alan Davidson: 'The only way you learn to bowl is to...
  12. The Sean

    The CW50 - The Top 3

    Pre-Christmas commitments meant I wasn't able to finish this yesterday like I planned to so it will have to be a Christmas Eve finale instead. As everyone knows who the top 3 are, it made little sense to draw it out into three separate posts...so without further ado, here are CricketWeb's Top 3...
  13. The Sean

    The CW50 - No.4

    We're just one short of the all time top three, and so the countdown continues with a footy player who spun leggies down in his spare time. 4. Shane Warne | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com Nominated by 100% of voters - highest ranking no.1 It is a testament not only to Shane...
  14. The Sean

    The CW50 - No.5

    To commence our pre-Christmas week we push on into your all time top five - and begin things with The Master himself. 5. Sir Jack Hobbs | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com Nominated by 85% of voters - highest ranking no.3 Sir John Berry Hobbs is - accoring both to this study and...
  15. The Sean

    The CW50 - No.6

    As our final entry for this working week, we take a look at the man who has been hero-worshipped by more cricket followers than any other... 6. Sachin Tendulkar | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com Nominated by 95% of voters - highest ranking no.3 “We have a young batsman in...
  16. The Sean

    The CW50 - No.7

    Two in one day - who said I don't spoil you lot? We continue our countdown with the one and only Lion of Lahore... 7. Imran Khan | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com Nominated by 92% of voters - highest ranking no.3 Imran Khan Niazi is a tall, dark and handsome Pakistani...
  17. The Sean

    The CW50 - No.8

    Apologies for the delay again, it's been a really busy week, but here we go again with your (real) choice of the number 8 cricketer of all time... 8. Sir Viv Richards | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com Nominated by 82% of voters - highest ranking no.3 Brutal, dominant, arrogant...
  18. The Sean

    The CW50 - No.9

    Apologies for the delay all, I was a little busy over the weekend - I'm hoping that with a little luck and good management I'll be able to keep counting these down at a rate of one per day from now on. Tonight, it is the turn of our all time no.9. 9. Malcolm Marshall | Cricket Players and...
  19. The Sean

    The CW50 - No.10

    Well here we are, right at the business end of our countdown - CW's top 10 cricketers of all time. Many great names have already been and gone in our list and now only the tiny elite remain. From now on, I will be counting down the final ten one at a time. So let's get started... 10. Sir...
  20. The Sean

    The CW50 - No.20-11

    So I did get to do this tonight after all, and so without further ado we enter CW's all time top 20, finishing tonight with the man who achingly just missed out on a hallowed place in your top 10. 20. Sir Ian Botham | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com Nominated by 47% of voters...

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