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is this the best batting line-up you have ever seen?

which the best batting combo you have seen?

  • India: Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman

    Votes: 13 35.1%

  • West Indies: Greenidge, Haynes, Richards, Lloyd

    Votes: 4 10.8%

  • Australia: Hayden, Ponting, S.Waugh, Gilchrist

    Votes: 16 43.2%

  • Any other combination

    Votes: 4 10.8%
  • Total voters
    37
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
fwfw best English line-up in my life-time was the late 1960s combo - Boycott, Edrich, Barrington, Cowdrey, Graveney & D'Oliveira.
 
bagapath

bagapath

International Captain
wpdavid said:
Not Rowe - he came along years after the 3 W's had retired.

Maybe Kanhai very early in his career.


Probably the Aus line-up for me, especially if we go down to number 7.
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i thought the three Ws retired one after the other and were all gone by 1962. Rowe did not enter the frame for at least 10 years after that, i assume.

But WI circa late 1970s - Richards at his peak, Lloyd still a force - were unbelievable too.
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lloyd got better with age. his average kept climbing upwards in the 1980s until he retired. kanhai on the other hand started with thunderstorms and ended with a fart.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
bagapath said:
i thought the three Ws retired one after the other and were all gone by 1962. Rowe did not enter the frame for at least 10 years after that, i assume.
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I'm sure you're right. He'd have been precocious, to say the least, to have played with Ws x 3.



bagapath said:
lloyd got better with age. his average kept climbing upwards in the 1980s until he retired. kanhai on the other hand started with thunderstorms and ended with a fart.
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I hadn't realised that about Lloyd. I remember him being outstanding in the early/mid 1970's and just assumed he tailed off slightly because I didn't remember him being so dominant once Viv came along.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
BoyBrumby said:
Would Knott have been keeping by then? Would look even better with him coming in at #7.
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I think that Knott only played in the final test of that series in WI. Helped save it, tbf. England's selectors being as they tended to be, I don't know whether that combination ever played again.
 
weldone

weldone

Hall of Fame Member
Yeah

(Woodfull, Ponsford, Bradman, McCabe) and (Barnes, Morris, Bradman, Harvey) are about equal I think.

All of (Weekes, Walcott, Worrell, Sobers), (Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hammond, Jardine), (Hayden, Ponting, Waugh, Gilchrist) and (Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman) are close IMO.
 
G.I.Joe

G.I.Joe

International Coach
Gonna cheat a bit - Lara, Tendulkar, Dhoni, Dravid.

Its the wrong format, Dravid didn't bat, and Dhoni is the weak link, but the other three are a joy to behold together.
 
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