Which cricketers go on each countries Mount Rushmore?

[sayon basak]

Worrell yes. I am fine with him over Headley.

Sobers and Viv are certain.

Laras achievements are synonymous with WI cricket. Single most important cricketer since Viv.

I forgot Constantine. He cannot be excluded.

 

[subshakerz]

Cricket was always massively popular in England. And Yes, while celebration is important, the actual influence and impact on English Cricket is well more important to me for the English mount rushmore, and Hutton blows beefy away in that regard. Like I said, Worrell – Lara.

No but cricket always stayed in it's own domain until Botham. He became a cultural icon of the entire country. He took cricket popularity to the next level. It's nuts to exclude him.

 

[Johan]

No but cricket always stayed in it's own domain until Botham. He became a cultural icon of the entire country. He took cricket popularity to the next level. It's nuts to exclude him.

Yeah but he faded away and we returned to the mean very soon.

 

[subshakerz]

@subshakerz

Birth is Hanif.

Growth and Development are Imran and Miandad jointly.

Preservation is Wasim who kept the torch going from Imran keeping Pakistan competitive.

Pretty straightforward

 

[subshakerz]

Yeah but he faded away and we returned to the mean very soon.

Doesn't matter because the cultural impact lasted long after his retirement. He was a household name. The single most popular English cricketer ever.

 

[sayon basak]

Birth is Hanif.

Growth and Development are Imran and Miandad jointly.

Preservation is Wasim who kept the torch going from Imran keeping Pakistan competitive.

Pretty straightforward

If Fazal is not in there, it probably should be thrown into the bin.

Pretty straightforward.

 

[Johan]

Doesn't matter because the cultural impact lasted long after his retirement. He was a household name. The single most popular English cricketer ever.

Sure, by that logic Dhoni should be on Indian mount rushmore and not Pataudi, Mankad or Hazare or anyone before Gavaskar really, doesn't make sense.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Birth is Hanif.

Growth and Development are Imran and Miandad jointly.

Preservation is Wasim who kept the torch going from Imran keeping Pakistan competitive.

Pretty straightforward

Don't know of this chief. Imran is senior to Miandad and can't see a scenario for Miandad to represent Growth rather than Imran.

 

[subshakerz]

Sure, by that logic Dhoni should be on Indian mount rushmore and not Pataudi, Mankad or Hazare or anyone before Gavaskar really, doesn't make sense.

Kohli is bigger than Dhoni.

I may be tempted to not put Kapil frankly in favor of one of the early era cricketers.

Pataudi, Gavaskar, Sachin, Kohli.

Actually it's a good question, who is the godfather of modern Indian cricket, Kapil or Gavaskar?

 

[subshakerz]

Don't know of this chief. Imran is senior to Miandad and can't see a scenario for Miandad to represent Growth rather than Imran.

Miandad is development then. It just happens that he did it with Imran there.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Miandad is development then. It just happens that he did it with Imran there.

First a team develops. Then it grows from there. When Miandad got there it was a developed team, and on its way to growth.

 

[Johan]

Kohli is bigger than Dhoni.

I may be tempted to not put Kapil frankly in favor of one of the early era cricketers.

Pataudi, Gavaskar, Sachin, Kohli.

you can't exclude the guy who captained them to the 1983 world cup, c'mon

 

[capt_Luffy]

you can't exclude the guy who captained them to the 1983 world cup, c'mon

Would have to be there before Sunny

 

[subshakerz]

you can't exclude the guy who captained them to the 1983 world cup, c'mon

I know. I may just leave it at Sachin and not include Kohli

Pataudi, Gavaskar, Kapil, Sachin

 

[subshakerz]

First a team develops. Then it grows from there. When Miandad got there it was a developed team, and on its way to growth.

Huh? It's the opposite. Development happens after growth.

 

[subshakerz]

Would have to be there before Sunny

You think Kapil was a bigger figure to Indian cricket than Gavaskar?

 

[subshakerz]

@Swamp Witch Hattie is Fleming or McCullum more deserving of being on NZ Mount Rushmore?

 

[weeman27bob]

England

Joe Root - most runs
James Anderson - most wickets
Jamie Overton - best batting average
Alastair Cook - best bowling average

 

[capt_Luffy]

Huh? It's the opposite. Development happens after growth.

Whichever way you put it, both kinda synonymous in this context. Bottomline, Miandad got there when Pak wasn't ****, so he can only compete for the growth spot, with Imran...... So yeah. And while I generally don't mix cricket with cricketers outside of it, being involved so closely with terrorism kinda leaves an extremely bad taste in terms of Greatness

 

[capt_Luffy]

@Swamp Witch Hattie is Fleming or McCullum more deserving of being on NZ Mount Rushmore?

JR Reid