Cricketweb decides the best captain ever, another contest. Nominations thread

[mr_mister]

Im gonna open this up to 64 names.

 

[honestbharani]

If that is the case, nominate Brian Lara.

 

[harsh.ag]

JFC. Viv Richards. You're still missing Viv ****ing Richards.

 

[mr_mister]

Yeah, I feel like there are still way more than 2 worthy participants left

 

[honestbharani]

second Viv Richards Just to get harsh off our collective backs.

 

[mr_mister]

i'm giving everyone 5 more nominations coz we're going up to 64, let's get this full quickly

 

[mr_mister]

seconding

Kepler Wessels
Reid
Vettori
Streak

nominate Atherton



Qualified: 37, (27 more to go)


Frank Worrell
Imran Khan
Mark Taylor
Clive Lloyd
Douglas Jardine
Ajit Wadekar
Graeme Smith
Brian Close
Mike Brearley
Misbah ul-Haq
Allan Border
Arjuna Ranatunga
Hansie Cronje
Ian Chappell
Stephen Fleming
Michael Clarke
Don Bradman
Mahela Jaywardene
Bill Woodfull
Warwrick Armstrong
Michael Vaughan
MS Dhoni
Nawab Pataudi Jr.
Richie Benaud
Bredon McCullum
Steve Waugh
Ray Illingworth
Sourav Ganguly
Richie Richardson
Abdul Kardar
Viv Richards
Len Hutton
John Reid
Kepler Wessels
Dan Vettori
Heath Streak
Peter May

 

[NUFAN]

- Martin Crowe
- Bob Simpson
- Peter May
- Wasim Akram

 

[jimmy101]

Wow, yeah, how did we miss Simmo?

Seconding Bob Simpson.

More noms:

- Bill Lawry
- Percy Chapman
- Garfield Sobers
- Kapil Dev
- Javed Miandad

 

[NUFAN]

Ricky Ponting
Virat Kohli
Floyd Reifer
Ali Bacher

 

[JBMAC]

Ted Dexter, Frank Worrell, Clive Lloyd, Clive Rice, Peter May

 

[ImpatientLime]

seconding nasser hussain. kinda embarrassed for the forum its taken this long. one of the greatest captains theres ever been. i think its forgotten too often now where england came from under his regime.

 

[Red]

I was gonna say, nominating 64 captains probably nominates every captain to have captained, ever.

But then I remembered, England probably used about 64 captains in the 80s/early 90s.

 

[mr_mister]

so many people have wasted nominations on people already qualified... i'm gonna loosen up my 2 noms min rule lol.

I put enough stock in JBMAC's opinion to allow Dexter in based on his one nom for example. I've also thrown in a few names I've seen talked about favourably here in the past



Qualified: 60 (4 more to go)


Frank Worrell
Imran Khan
Mark Taylor
Clive Lloyd
Douglas Jardine
Ajit Wadekar
Graeme Smith
Brian Close
Mike Brearley
Misbah ul-Haq
Allan Border
Arjuna Ranatunga
Hansie Cronje
Ian Chappell
Stephen Fleming
Michael Clarke
Don Bradman
Mahela Jaywardene
Bill Woodfull
Warwrick Armstrong
Michael Vaughan
MS Dhoni
Nawab Pataudi Jr.
Richie Benaud
Bredon McCullum
Steve Waugh
Ray Illingworth
Sourav Ganguly
Richie Richardson
Abdul Kardar
Viv Richards
Len Hutton
John Reid
Kepler Wessels
Dan Vettori
Heath Streak
Peter May
Bob Simpson
Nasser Hussain
Percy Chapman
Ali Bacher
Ted Dexter
Martin Crowe
Wasim Akram
Herbie Taylor
Gary Sobers
Bill Lawry
Kapil Dev
Lala Armanath
Ricky Ponting
Freddie Brown
WG Grace
Arthur Shrewsbury
Plum Warner
Joe Darling
Monty Noble
Clem Hill
Shaun Pollock
Andrew Strauss
Billy Murdoch

 

[jimmy101]

Dave Nourse is pretty revered from what I've heard.

 

[mr_mister]

I had a look at him when studying the early 1900 captains.... but he apparently never captained his country in 45 tests. The moniker 'grand old man of south african cricket' makes it seem like he was a captain... maybe he was just an old guy in the team for a long time

 

[fredfertang]

No Andrew Strauss?

 

[cnerd123]

Douglas Jardine

 

[mr_mister]

yeah ill throw in Strauss

 

[OverratedSanity]

Douglas Jardine

What's the smiley for? He's already qualified and rightly do.