No.
The easiest way to see who is regarded as a better cricketer is to see who is ranked higher.
This point is so elemental it cannot be debated.
The only reason you are bringing in ATG XIs is because you know in a direct ranking, Marshall generally gets ranked behind Imran.
I gave you seven lists just now where Imran is ranked higher. Please show me as many lists where Marshall is higher, and we can talk.
First off half the lists were garbage and it's alarming, pathetic and hilarious the depths you're willing to descend to prove such a stupid point.
I want to really take my time with this one.
1. It bears repeating that the lists were mostly absolute ****. Lets at least be honest with that one.
2. In almost all of those lists Imran is behind Viv and or Sachin. Are you now endorsing that specialists are better than all rounders?
3. Just to further highlight your desperation, youre highlighting lists that has Imran 16th and 18th, I suppose by brandishing these as evidence you belive that's a fair representation of his ranking? You belive that there's a possibility that Marshall is either the 68th or 75th best cricketer in history? One of them also has Kallis ahead of him. I suppose you're endorsing that as well? Kallis 4 places above Immi?
4. If one genuinely believes that a player is significantly and clearly better than another one who is competing for the same allocated slot, that person will selct the player who they believe to be better in said slot. This is so fundamentally straight forward it doesn’t bear debate. What's the point of being better if you can't make the field. This is why in every sport,
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has a team of the year and not a top 10. This is your argument, everyone thinks Imran is better but they don't want to put him on their team, they want to give someone else a chance, you're laughable dude. Youu belive Imran to be better and you include him, you don't afford that level of reason or intelligence to anyone else?
5. If it's not important why raise two of the very few he appears in? I assume that CMJ, Gower, Kimber, Eager, Crowe, Cricinfo, Wisden, Swanton, Boycott all though he was a top 3 player, but thought he couldn't fit into the team? Is it that you think they're stupid or don't understand the game? Which is it? The cope is unreal. CMJ and Gower also does rate Maco higher, but guess that doesn't count either?
6. But this is the most important part, and the one once strongly advocated by
@Coronis of all people. It's impossible to compare batsmen to bowlers, far less to then try to incorporate all rounders. It's next to impossible to qualify and objectively list. That's why most people don't list and create teams. That's how brilliance and exceptionalism is displayed and acknowledged. Marshall is widely accepted as the greatest bowler to have played the game, but yeah 65th correlations pretty well to that. Idiocy
