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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 12:05 pmPosted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 6:20 pmPosted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 6:44 pmGingerfinch wrote:Think I'd go something like this:
Gavaskar
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Dev
Kirmani
Harby
Kumble
Srinath
Zaheer
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:24 pmsussexpob wrote:Tell me Red...
How can you make an informed judgement on the merit of Dhoni vs Engineer, when Engineer retired over 40 years ago. I might be wrong, but you dont strike me as a 60 year old, so I would have to assume that you havent seen the latter play. Nothing worse than judging the merit of a player on reputation or paper stats.
In 40 years time I am going to have to read about Steven Gerrard being one of the greatest players ever, solely on the basis that the media of the time were 90% ex-Liverpool players, and not at all because he was anything near a world class player.
Reps and stats lie. Alan Knott never dropped a catch apparently, but there are more than a few videos of him dropping absolute clangers on youtube. Every person over 60 will tell you he was the best, but the likelyhood of him being even better than Jonny Bairstow is remote considering the ridiculously huge advances in athletisim and fielding quality I myself have witnessed in my relatively short cricket watching career.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 1:54 pmPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 2:19 pmGingerfinch wrote:Think I'd go something like this:
Gavaskar
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Laxman/Vengsarkar
Dev
Kirmani
Harby
Kumble
Srinath
Zaheer
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:48 pmshankycricket wrote:Kohli is not even in the top 2 or 3 Test batsmen in his current team. How can he even be in an all time XI conversation beggars belief.