2024 Ranking of Batsmen Poll

[Fuller Pilch]

Headley
Hammond
Sutcliffe

 

[honestbharani]

Headley
Hammond
Sutcliffe

 

[ataraxia]

Is 100 fc games, including his tests, at 70 not enough of a fc record for Headley?

The criteria for this exercise is solely test performances.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Must've misunderstood your comment. Surely averaging over 60 constitutes superb test performances.

How do you view Barnes and O'Reilly? They didn't play many more tests than Headley and G Pollock (27 each.

George Nepia is widely considered a rugby ATG and he only played 9 tests.

Anyway, sorry I should leave it for the debate thread.

 

[ataraxia]

Agreed that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to rate test players on the tests they played only, especially when that player is a batter (a high-variance role) for whom we only take into consideration 19 to 21 tests, Headley. But L&L has clarified that that is how it is to be done in this thread (and I reckon most of the voters agree with that).

 

[Archer6K]

Headley
Hammond
Sutcliffe

This for me

 

[Slifer]

Hammond
Greg Chappell
Sutcliffe

 

[kingkallis]

Jacques Kallis
Wally Hammond
George Headley

 

[centurymaker]

Ponting
Hammond
Sutcliffe

 

[Prince EWS]

Hammond
Sutcliffe
Kallis

 

[Line and Length]

A fairly predictable leading trio this round.
71 - Hammond; 28 - Sutcliffe, Headley; 16 - Kallis; 14 - Ponting; 7 - G.Chappell; 6 - Border, G.Pollock; 2 - Sangakarra;
1 - Weekes
Sutcliffe (18 nominations) gets the nod ahead of Headley (12)
Voting is now open for positions 13-15. I don't see this round as predictable as the last. Could be interesting.

	*Current player	Tests	Runs	Average	Centuries	Usual Batting Position	2022 Rank
1	D. Bradman	52	6996	99.94	29	3	1
2	S. Tendulkar	200	15921	53.79	51	4	4
3	J. Hobbs	61	5410	56.95	15	Opener	2
4	G. Sobers	93	8032	57.78	26	5 & 6	3
5	L. Hutton	79	6971	56.67	19	Opener	7
6	B. Lara	131	11953	52.89	34	4	6
7	V. Richards	121	8540	50.24	24	3 - 5	5
8	*S.Smith	109	9685	56.97	32	4 & Opener	10
9	S. Gavaskar	125	10122	51.12	34	Opener	9
10	W. Hammond	85	7249	58.46	22	3 & 4	8
11	H. Sutcliffe	54	4555	60.73	16	Opener	12
12	G. Headley	22	2190	60.83	10	3	11

 

[Sunil1z]

Kallis
Ponting
Chappell

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Chappell
Kallis
Sangakkara

 

[Bitmap]

Graeme Pollock
Ricky Ponting
Greg Chappell

 

[ma1978]

Ponting
Chappell
Dravid

 

[Bolo.]

Kallis
Chappell
Sangakkara

 

[Burgey]

Ponting
Border
Dravid

 

[Line and Length]

Pollock
Barrington
Weekes

(just to be different)

 

[capt_Luffy]

Chappell
Pollock
Border

 

[centurymaker]

Ponting
Border
Chappell