Top 25 cricketers of Shane Warne's Career - as decided by CW

[silentstriker]

So as per the idea in the other thread by Xuhaib, I think it's a good idea to make a better list than Warne. Of course, Warne would be included.


Criteria: The person in question must have played at least one Test or One Day International with or against Warne.

First thing we'll do is nominate 50 players. Then we'll rank 25 in reverse order just like Warne by CW voting (starting with #25, and working our way up). We'll do it the opposite way from usual voting, and see how it goes.

So let's start with the nominations, I have the following:

1. Shane Warne
2. Chris Cairns
3. Dilip Vengsarkar
4. Waqar Younis
5. Alec Stewart
6. Michael Atherton
7. Ravi Shastri
8. Justin Langer
9. Kapil Dev
10. Stuart MacGill
11. Sanath Jayasuriya
12. Stephen Harmison
13. Andy Flower
14. Michael Vaughan
15. Bruce Reid
16. Allan Donald
17. Robin Smith
18. Kevin Pietersen
19. Shoaib Akhtar
20. Craig McDermott
21. Saeed Anwar
22. Mohammad Yousuf
23. Jacques Kallis
24. Shaun Pollock
25. Steve Waugh
26. Darren Lehmann
27. Brett Lee
28. Stephen Fleming
29. Martin Crowe
30. David Boon
31. Adam Gilchrist
32. Aravinda de Silva
33. VVS Laxman
34. Matthew Hayden
35. Andrew Flintoff
36. Graham Gooch
37. Rahul Dravid
38. Anil Kumble
39. Mark Waugh
40. Courtney Walsh
41. Ian Healy
42. Mark Taylor
43. Ricky Ponting
44. Muttiah Muralitharan
45. Wasim Akram
46. Glenn McGrath
47. Allan Border
48. Curtly Ambrose
49. Brian Lara
50. Sachin Tendulkar

If you nominate someone, please also nominate who you'd like to take OFF, as we want only 50 players to pick from.

 

[Richard]

50 too many for mine, will take too long, and frankly, I CBA with the effort of doing that many.

Make it 25, as Greg (howardj) suggested.

 

[pasag]

Nah, don't like the voting or nominations idea. Would rather go back to the original one where everyone just makes their own list and the whole thing is compiled and ranked from there.

 

[Matt79]

Graham Thorpe. Robin Smith or Vengsarker out for him maybe?

 

[silentstriker]

50 too many for mine, will take too long, and frankly, I CBA with the effort of doing that many.

Make it 25, as Greg (howardj) suggested.

It is 25....

 

[Richard]

Still CBA to nominate as many as 50 tho.

 

[silentstriker]

Um, I already nominated the 50...you just have to put up any changes if you want them.

 

[pasag]

SS, you've missed the point brought up in the other thread, it wasn't going to be a vote nor was it going to be limited by nominations. Everyone was going to post their own list and the results were going to be complied into one top 50.

Just thought of an idea that maybe we should come up with CW top 50 cricketers list. Each member should post their top 50 list, after we have got around say 50 lists we count the number of players that have made those lists and then we should rank the players according to the points they had scored.

 

[SJS]

Its easier for everyone to nomnate just ten and rank them ( something like the way the cricketers of the century were selected). Give points for rankings ten for first upto 1 for 10th. Add up the points for all those nominated and you will surely have more than fifty in order of ranking.

 

[Matt79]

^ Agreed

 

[Richard]

Um, I already nominated the 50...you just have to put up any changes if you want them.

There must be at least 30 seam-bowling candidates better than Harmison.

A few...
PS de Villiers
Craig Matthews
Andre Nel
Makhaya Ntini
Chaminda Vaas (is nothing short of a disgrace that anyone would even remotely consider Harmison ahead of him)
Ian Bishop
Winston Benjamin
Kenneth Benjamin
Pedro Collins
Angus Fraser
Darren Gough
Andrew Caddick
Dominic Cork
Matthew Hoggard
Simon Doull
Dion Nash
Shane Bond
Aaqib Javed
Mo-hammad Asif
Paul Reiffel
Damien Fleming
Jason Gillespie
Merv
Michael Kasprowicz
Stuart Clark
Javagal Srinath
Laaaasigh Maaaalinga
Heath Streak

Most if not all of whom are also better than Brett Lee too. And Stuart MacGill.

Mohammad Azharuddin > Robin Smith by a fair bit, though as you seem to be in charge of this operation I presume you'll refuse to consider him for other reasons.

Kapil Dev and Brian McMillan is a possible, too, though Kapil > Mac probably.

 

[silentstriker]

*SIGH*, you guys are no fun.

Rank the players 1-10 (1 the best). I'll tally up all the points.

 

[Richard]

*SIGH*, you guys are no fun.

?

 

[Beleg]

I'll nominate my top twenty.

1. Muttiah Muralitharan
2. Alan Donald
3. Wasim Akram
4. Curtley Ambrose
5. Brian Lara
6. Rahul Dravid
7. Sachin Tendulkar
8. Ricky Ponting
9. McGrath
10. Inzamam
11. Shaun Pollock
12. Shoaib Akhtar
13. Steve Waugh
14. Adam Gilchrist
15. Andy Flower
16. Courtney Walsh
17. Jason Gellispie
18. Younis
19. Langer
20. Hayden

 

[The Sean]

I'll nominate my top twenty.

1. Muttiah Muralitharan
2. Alan Donald
3. Wasim Akram
4. Curtley Ambrose
5. Brian Lara
6. Rahul Dravid
7. Sachin Tendulkar
8. Ricky Ponting
9. McGrath
10. Inzamam
11. Shaun Pollock
12. Shoaib Akhtar
13. Steve Waugh
14. Adam Gilchrist
15. Andy Flower
16. Courtney Walsh
17. Jason Gellispie
18. Younis
19. Langer
20. Hayden

Is that in order? And have you deliberately excluded Warne because you thought he was not to be considered, or you just don't rate him in your top 20?

 

[Beleg]

that's pretty much an order. And I didn't consider Warne. He'd come somewhere around 9-11.

 

[Prince EWS]

?

That's pretty much a Pup Clarke effort tbh.

 

[Richard]

Thaaaaaat were the idea...

 

[Xuhaib]

So its about players who have played with Warne hmmm....I will pick my top 25.

McGrath
Warne
Lara
S.Waugh
Murali
Wasim
Ponting
Waqar
KP
Sachin
Saeed
Dravid
Donald
A.Flower
Sangakarra
A.Flintoff
Yousuf
Shoaib
Kallis
Arvinda
Gilly
Bevan
Asif
Bond
I.Bishop

 

[silentstriker]

Only the top ten.

Here is mine:

1. McGrath
2. Tendulkar
3. Ambrose
4. Wasim
5. Lara
6. Gilchrist
7. Donald
8. Warne
9. Murali
10. Ponting

Waugh very unlucky to miss out.