Your Top 20 Cricketers of all time

[NUFAN]

My Top 20 Cricketers in order of pecker size

1. Curtly Ambrose
2. Viv Richards
3. Malcolm Marshall
4. Brian Lara
5. Garry Sobers
6. Dennis Lillee
7. Keith Miller
8. Graeme Pollock
9. Adam Gilchrist
10. WG Grace
11. Richard Hadlee
12. Don Bradman
#13. Jack Hobbs
#13. Len Hutton
#13. Muttiah Muralitharan
16. Shane Warne
17. Wally Hammond
18. Imran Khan
19. Sydney Barnes
20. Sachin Tendulkar

 

[fredfertang]

My Top 20 Cricketers in order of pecker size

On that basis my understanding is that John Emburey would be top of the pile, followed by former Berkshire paceman Jeff Jones, known to his teammates as "The Clarinet Player"

 

[Red]

Doubt very much that Murali could compete with Hobbs and Hutton Nufan...and you have Gilchrist far too high. Joel Garner unlucky not to be in the top 3 imo.

Other than that, great list, no surprises seeing the WIs dominating in the top 5.

 

[Dan]

Joel Garner has to be right up the top, given the "if everything were in proportion, I'd be 8' 6" quote"

 

[hang on]

I quite liked CMJ's list.

Here's mine:

Bradman
Sobers
Tendulkar
Warne
Lara
Richards
Marshall
Murali
Gilchrist
Kallis
Khan
Lillee
Ambrose
Hobbs
Hadlee
McGrath
Gavaskar
Hutton
Ponting
Akram

with the sincerest apologies to the other Richards, who was to my eyes, even better than Viv when on song.

 

[NUFAN]

I didn't incluse te 20 biggest in the history of Test Cricket cause that would frankly be absurd! It was ordering my top 20. I actually forgot McGrath too.

 

[watson]

After looking at all those lists it occured to me that most people abbreviate Garfield Sobers to Garry Sobers rather than Gary Sobers. Why is that when Garfield has only 1 r ?

Gary is obviously more appropriate, so let's go with Gary from now on.

BTW I think the confusion comes about because his autobiography is called - 'Garry Sobers: My Autobiography'. However, I'm pretty sure that Garfield Sobers always signed his autograph as 'Gary Sobers'. Perhaps Fred can confirm this for me one way or the other.

(OK, it's Friday arvo and I'm bored)

 

[NUFAN]

Cricinfo > Whatsun.

 

[fredfertang]

After looking at all those lists it occured to me that most people abbreviate Garfield Sobers to Garry Sobers rather than Gary Sobers. Why is that when Garfield has only 1 r ?

Gary is obviously more appropriate, so let's go with Gary from now on.

BTW I think the confusion comes about because his autobiography is called - 'Garry Sobers: My Autobiography'. However, I'm pretty sure that Garfield Sobers always signed his autograph as 'Gary Sobers'. Perhaps Fred can confirm this for me one way or the other.

(OK, it's Friday arvo and I'm bored)

My understanding is that the man himself prefers the double r - his first few books were always spelt with the single r in his name, and presumably with that 2002 auto he got his own way

 

[fredfertang]

Decent book, but a bit reverential - hopefully some day we will get a balanced and objective account of Sobers' life

 

[watson]

Then Garry it is then. Although Trevor Bailey's biography looks intersting;

 

[watson]

Decent book, but a bit reverential - hopefully some day we will get a balanced and objective account of Sobers' life

I guess that's typical of Bailey's era.

 

[kyear2]

Comments : Ian Chappell on ESPNcricinfo's World XI: Allrounder | 'He was a gambler with a hell of a lot of talent' | Cricket videos, MP3, podcasts, cricket audio | ESPN Cricinfo

Two Aussies perspective on who they consider the greatest cricketer, assume most have seen it already btw.

 

[G.I.Joe]

That's odd. I wouldn't characterize Kallis as a gambler.

 

[ricky8741]

i will only post the names of those cricketers whom i have watched
1 dale styn
2 mike hussey
3 dhoni
4 kohli
5 cook
6 kp
7 hayden
8 kallis
9 clark
10 malinga

 

[Coronis]

i will only post the names of those cricketers whom i have watched
1 dale styn
2 mike hussey
3 dhoni
4 kohli
5 cook
6 kp
7 hayden
8 kallis
9 clark
10 malinga

This list is much better than mine!

 

[bob11will]

Sachin Tendulkar
Kapil Dev
Viv Richards
Donald Bradman
Imran Khan
Garry Sobers
Alan Border
Brian Lara
Ricky Ponting
Steve Waugh
Ian Botham
Nasir Husain
Shen Warn
Malcolm Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Sanath Jaysurya
Adam Gilchrist
Rahul Dravid
Gaqck Kallis
Shawn pollack

 

[mde203]

As many others have, I'll include just those whom I have seen:

1, Glen McGrath
2, Jacques Kallis
3, Shane Warne
4, Brian Lara
5, Rahul Dravid
6, Sachin Tendulkar
7, Curtly Ambrose
8, Mahela Jayawardene
9, Wasim Akram
10, Alan Donald
11, Ricky Ponting
12, Muttiah Muralitheran
13, Adam Gilchrist
14, Steve Waugh
15, Shaun Pollock
16, Anil Kumble
17, Courtney Walsh
18, Inzamam-ul-Haq
19, Dale Steyn
20, Kumar Sangakkara

Not an easy task, had a good 15 who missed out.

 

[Red]

Nasir Husain
Shen Warn
Gaqck Kallis
Shawn pollack

Not talking unlicensed PC cricket mate...

 

[BeeGee]

Don Bradman
Garry Sobers
George Headley
Glenn McGrath
Richard Hadlee
Viv Richards
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Jack Hobbs
Imran Khan
Adam Gilchrist
Brian Lara
Wally Hammond
Sachin Tendulkar
WG Grace
Graeme Pollock
Barry Richards
Jacques Kallis
Curtly Ambrose
Keith Miller