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Test All Rounders - A Statistical Look

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
Here is the final revision of my list now which includes Mushtaq Mohammed, Frank Woolley and Warwick Armstrong (thanks to Engle and Flametree).
After posting this I'm going to attempt to come up with a list that somehow combines my efforts and Dan's (probably statistically superior) ratings.

Garfield Sobers +23.75
Jacques Kallis +22.72
Imran Khan +14.88
Aubrey Faulkner +14.20
Keith Miller + 14.00
Ted Dexter +12.96
Frank Worrell +10.76
Ravindra Jadeja +10.64
Mushtaq Mohammed +9.95
Shaun Pollock +9.20

Shakib Al Hasan +8.38
Trevor Goddard +8.24
Tony Greig +8.23
Jason Holder +6.35
Jack Gregory +5.83
Brian McMillan +5.53
Monty Noble +5.25
Ian Botham +5.14
Warwick Armstrong +5.09
Charlie Kellaway + 5.06

Richard Hadlee +4.87
Chris Cairns +4.13
Ben Stokes +3.86
Jacob Oram +3.27
Wilfred Rhodes +3.23
Gerry Gomez +2.90
Ravi Ashwin +2.67
Frank Woolley +2.16
Shane Watson +1.51
Kapil Dev +1.45
Trevor Bailey +0.53
 

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
I've taken the cheats way out and adopted the most simplistic approach to combine my list with Dan's. I looked at the Top 30 from each list and allocated 30 points for top spot down to 1 point to the player in 30th position.
In all, there were 25 players who appeared in the top 30 of both lists and they are listed in order here. There can be no denying that Sir Garfield fully deserves the title of GOAT when it comes to all-rounders. He scores the maximum 60 possible here.

1. Garfield Sobers - 60
2. Imran Khan - 57
3. Jacques Kallis - 56
=4. Aubrey Faulkner, Ravindra Jadeja - 51
6. Keith Miller - 47
=7. Shaun Pollock, Shakib Al Hasan - 43
9. Frank Worrell - 39
=10.Richard Hadlee, Trevor Goddard, Jack Gregory - 36

13. Ted Dexter - 35
14. Tony Greig - 34
15. Ian Botham - 32
16. Ravi Ashwin - 29
17. Chris Cairns - 27
=18. Jason Holder, Mushtaq Mohammed - 25
20 - Monty Noble - 23

21 - Brian McMillan - 21
22 - Charlie Kellaway - 16
23 - Ben Stokes - 15
24 - Warwick Armstrong - 13
25 - Kapil Dev - 12

Of those who missed out by not being in both in Top 30s, Mankad was 17th, Tate 18th, Pathan 19th, Flintoss 27th and Vetorri 29th on Dan's list while Oram 23rd, Rhodes 24th, Gomez 25th, Woolley 28th and Watson 29th were missing from mine.
Had their points been included, Mankad would be in 24th position and Tate equal 25th.

This was an interesting exercise and, like any ranking system, is open to question. Regardless, all players mentioned were (and in some cases are) fine all-rounders.
 

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