List down your top 10 test all rounders

[Rob Wesley]

List down your top 10 test all rounders in international cricket history. I may miss a few names pre 1970 but here is my list:-

1. Garfield Sobers
2. Imran Khan
3. Keith Miller
4. Ian Botham
5. Kapil Dev
6. Shaun Pollock
7. Ravindra Jadeja
8. Tony Greig
9. Ben Stokes
10. Chris Cairns

 

[capt_Luffy]

Strictly Tests:

1. Garry Sobers
2. Imran Khan
3. Jacques Kallis
4. Keith Miller
5. Ian Botham
6. Richard Hadlee
7. Aubrey Faulkner
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Kapil Dev
10. Ravindra Jadeja

 

[Johan]

Chronologically

Aubrey Faulkner
Walter Hammond
Keith Miller
Garfield Sobers
Imran Khan
Ian Botham
Kapil Dev
Richard Hadlee
Shaun Pollock
Jacques Kallis

 

[sayon basak]

Garfield Sobers
Imran Khan
Jacques Kallis
Keith Miller
Ian Botham
Aubrey Faulkner
Richard Hadlee
Kapil Dev
Wilfred Rhodes
Shaun Pollock

Honourable mention: Ravindra Jadeja

 

[sayon basak]

Chronologically

Aubrey Faulkner
Walter Hammond
Keith Miller
Garfield Sobers
Imran Khan
Ian Botham
Kapil Dev
Richard Hadlee
Shaun Pollock
Jacques Kallis

And you said Hadlee shouldn't be in the top 10.

 

[ma1978]

Sober:s
Imran
Botham
Miller
Hadlee
Kapil
Pollock
Jadeja
Faulkner
Stokes

 

[Johan]

And you said Hadlee shouldn't be in the top 10.

If Hammond is, Hadlee should be too.

if Hammond isn't, Hadlee shouldn't be either.

 

[sayon basak]

List down your top 10 test all rounders in international cricket history. I may miss a few names pre 1970 but here is my list:-

1. Garfield Sobers
2. Imran Khan
3. Keith Miller
4. Ian Botham
5. Kapil Dev
6. Shaun Pollock
7. Ravindra Jadeja
8. Tony Greig
9. Ben Stokes
10. Chris Cairns

Sober:s
Imran
Botham
Miller
Hadlee
Kapil
Pollock
Jadeja
Faulkner
Stokes

Why no Kallis?

 

[sayon basak]

If Hammond is, Hadlee should be too.

if Hammond isn't, Hadlee shouldn't be either.

Hadlee comfortably ahead in both primary and secondary, so that doesn't have to be the case.,

 

[Johan]

Hadlee comfortably ahead in both primary and secondary, so that doesn't have to be the case.,

I don't think he's much better or much different in secondary, the all rounder discipline balance skill is probably even between them.

 

[Thala_0710]

As all rounders: (purely tests)
Sobers
Imran
Kallis
Miller
Faulkner
Botham
Kapil
Hadlee
Jadeja
Pollock

Not really sure myself of the above

As test cricketers (same 10)
Sobers
Hadlee
Imran
Kallis
Miller
Faulkner
Pollock
Botham
Kapil
Jadeja

 

[Rob Wesley]

Why no Kallis?

i somehow forgot him.

 

[Rob Wesley]

Actually it might be debatable if Pollock is even a contender for true all rounders.He has 39 not outs in his test career and that helped him boost his average to 31, which isn’t very good anyway.

I think runs per inning should be 25+ for an all rounder with bowling skills as primary to be contention for all rounders.

 

[sayon basak]

I don't think he's much better or much different in secondary, the all rounder discipline balance skill is probably even between them.

Yeah, disagree on this one.

 

[Thala_0710]

Actually it might be debatable if Pollock is even a contender for true all rounders.He has 39 not outs in his test career and that helped him boost his average to 31, which isn’t very good anyway.

I think runs per inning should be 25+ for an all rounder with bowling skills as primary to be contention for all rounders.

That's why I placed him 10th. But I still think that his batting is enough for all rounder status.

 

[Johan]

Yeah, disagree on this one.

That's alright, I just don't see much to differentiate a bowler who averages 37 and a bat who averages 27

 

[ma1978]

Why no Kallis?

he should be there below imran. I deleted him by mistake and then when I found I was short one added stokes

 

[Thala_0710]

That's alright, I just don't see much to differentiate a bowler who averages 37 and a bat who averages 27

A 37 avg bowler with 1 WPM though

 

[Johan]

A 37 avg bowler with 1 WPM though

that's fine, Hadlee has 23 RPI, 22 without the hundred against SL and 25 batting average.

 

[Thala_0710]

that's fine, Hadlee has 23 RPI, 22 without the hundred against SL and 25 batting average.

Wally avged 45 vs Aus (58 vs Wi too)