Debate thread for 2024 Ranking of batsmen poll

[CricAddict]

Now that the bowlers' poll is almost done, the whole of CW is eagerly waiting for L&L to kick-start the poll for batsmen. Meanwhile, let me start this by-product of the poll thread too.

The poor bowlers are getting smashed from bazball, advent of T20 etc. Let us at least give them their thread without getting that thread dominated by batsmen talk too. We can discuss about the batsmen here instead of the bowlers' thread.

Looking forward to healthy discussions as well as unhealthy ones which obviously are more interesting.

 

[ankitj]

Where is the poll thread?

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Where is the poll thread?

That's what we're debating here.

 

[CricAddict]

Where is the poll thread?

It's run by John Cena.

 

[ataraxia]

Maybe Verity was ranked too high methinks

 

[Coronis]

Maybe Verity was ranked too high methinks

He wasn’t that bad with the bat.

He’s no Garner, but who is?

 

[Socerer 01]

He wasn’t that bad with the bat.

He’s no Garner, but who is?

Chris Martin

 

[Line and Length]

With the Poll for bowlers ending today, I'll start the batsmen Poll tomorrow,
I'm thinking of automatically ranking Bradman at # 1 and start voting for spots 2-4. My thinking being that the Don would be almost everyone's first pick and we would be narrowing voting to just 2 spots.
Any objections or thoughts on this?

 

[CricAddict]

With the Poll for bowlers ending today, I'll start the batsmen Poll tomorrow,
I'm thinking of automatically ranking Bradman at # 1 and start voting for spots 2-4. My thinking being that the Don would be almost everyone's first pick and we would be narrowing voting to just 2 spots.
Any objections or thoughts on this?

We might have couple of meme votes not ranking him at 1 but otherwise, he will be at 1 for everyone. So, it's fair enough that we start from 2nd.

 

[CricAddict]

Similar to ranking of spinners vis-a-vis pacers, it will be interesting to watch the ranking of openers vs the middle order batsmen. I for one do usually like to grant some bonus points for openers.

 

[kyear2]

With the Poll for bowlers ending today, I'll start the batsmen Poll tomorrow,
I'm thinking of automatically ranking Bradman at # 1 and start voting for spots 2-4. My thinking being that the Don would be almost everyone's first pick and we would be narrowing voting to just 2 spots.
Any objections or thoughts on this?

Doesn't matter either way, but wouldn't it be interesting to have the first round at 4 to accommodate that but still include him?

Serves the same purpose and we get to have an unanimous vote.

 

[Socerer 01]

interested to see how many current era batsmen actually make it into this poll

 

[ataraxia]

interested to see how many current era batsmen actually make it into this poll

Plenty will.

 

[CricAddict]

interested to see how many current era batsmen actually make it into this poll

what do you mean by current era? batsmen still not retired or since 90s/2000s?

 

[Himannv]

My thinking being that the Don would be almost everyone's first pick

Finished 8th one time IIRC.

 

[Line and Length]

Finished 8th one time IIRC.

Where do you rank him?

 

[_00_deathscar]

Finished 8th one time IIRC.

And that’s still too high

 

[Socerer 01]

what do you mean by current era? batsmen still not retired or since 90s/2000s?

currently active ones

we’ll have lots of standouts from the 90s and 2000s eras anyway

 

[ankitj]

Just putting it out there – I already don't like the batsmen ranking results

 

[howitzer]

With the Poll for bowlers ending today, I'll start the batsmen Poll tomorrow,
I'm thinking of automatically ranking Bradman at # 1 and start voting for spots 2-4. My thinking being that the Don would be almost everyone's first pick and we would be narrowing voting to just 2 spots.
Any objections or thoughts on this?

This is probably the way to go but half of me wants to see which of Tendulkar, Sobers and Hobbs doesn't make it and how they then do in the 4th/5th/6th battle.