Who's the greatest spinner of all time?

[ataraxia]

In your opinion, who's the greatest spinner?

For me I want to say Grimmett but it has to be O'Reilly. Such a gun.

Verity has an incredible FC record, Laker that 19, Kumble most test wickets for a spinner. Tayfield, Gibbs, Underwood all accurate and underrated. Ashwin & Jadeja, the current duo, and Wilfred Rhodes my personal favourite.

I think that the value of a great spinner tends to be underrated. Like, the generally-agreed-upon greatest three teams of all time, none of them had a great spinner. MacGill was on and off, and Ian Johnson was... well... Ian Johnson.


Do not mention the freak or the freak, or you shall be banned

 

[Line and Length]

There are two obvious omissions in the poll.

 

[JBMAC]

Warne followed by O'Rielly , Benaud, Gibbs.

 

[ataraxia]

There are two obvious omissions in the poll.

I forgot about Benaud and Herath.

 

[cnerd123]

Murali obviously.

But of the options in the poll - Lance Gibbs, followed by Kumble, then O'Reilly/Grimmet and then Ashwin (who could eclipse them soon). Verity and Laker in the same bracket as Ashwin.

Don't really rate Tayfield and Underoowd that highly, while Rhodes is a favourite of mine but did play a lot of his career as a batter.

 

[Xix2565]

Feels like a soup really after Murali/Warne. Kumble getting slightly underrated in such lists IMO so I'd pick him over the rest.

 

[SteveNZ]

WTF?

The answer is Warne, incidentally.

 

[ankitj]

Another thread where the answer is Jadeja

 

[Starfighter]

Sulieman Benn

 

[honestbharani]

Murali
Warne
Kumble

are a clear top 3 IMO.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Lot of effort for a troll thread tbh

lol @ Kumble though you crazy guys

 

[Shady Slim]

Sulieman Benn

one of the all time worst test cricketers tbh imo, and i say this purely because of his attitude. 2015 tour here i remember him fielding at fine leg and he tried to prevent a boundary by throwing the boot out soccer style

 

[PlayerComparisons]

You forgot to exclude Jadeja when excluding the tier 1 spinners

 

[ataraxia]

Do not mention the freak or the freak, or you shall be banned

It was a bit of stretch to expect any CW discussion of spinners to be good, wasn't it. Even without Burgey coming into the thread and saying someone in particular's a chucker and some breed of bowlers is inferior, this discussion is still pretty dire.

Would still prefer it doesn't degenerate into ****** vs *****

 

[Line and Length]

It degenerated from the start.

 

[Daemon]

Are you doing ok L&L, you seem a bit snappy of late

 

[TheJediBrah]

I don't understand this thread at all

 

[ataraxia]

I don't understand your face at all

 

[ankitj]

I don't understand your face at all

I don't understand your posts

 

[trundler]

Kumble wasn't better than Saqlain surely. Just played more