Best cricket allrounder
Nov. 18th, 2007 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Here is a poll about cricket so if you know nothing about the subject and/or couldn't care less just skip it.
I want to know who people consider the best all round cricketer of the post WW2 era. Who, by his performance as both batsman and bowler, would you most want on your side?
ETA Reposted with Ian Botham included. Sorry to the people who already voted. Please have another go.
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I want to know who people consider the best all round cricketer of the post WW2 era. Who, by his performance as both batsman and bowler, would you most want on your side?
ETA Reposted with Ian Botham included. Sorry to the people who already voted. Please have another go.
[Poll #1090810]
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Date: 2007-11-18 09:44 pm (UTC)I never saw Keith Miller play but here the numbers do tell the story. Also he played at a time when there were a lot of superb cricketers about and impressed all of them. Besides, there is much to be said for a man who when asked how he coped with the pressures of an Ashes series replied."There's no pressure in cricket mate. Pressure is a Messerschmidt up your arse." One wonders what he might have achieved if he hadn't lost six years of test cricket to the war.
I picked Imran Khan at number 3 but I'm not at all sure I shouldn't have picked Jacques Kallis. He must be one of the most under-rated players of all time. He gets slagged off by the South African press but he turns in consistently match winning performances. he's certainly a much better cricketer than a certain over-hyped Lancashire bowler with batting pretensions.
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Date: 2007-11-19 04:08 am (UTC)Sanath J - he's an ornery bastard, and his presence has an effect on other players. His performances aren't too bad either. :)
Wasim Akram - another stubborn performer, who never could figure out when he was beaten... the amount of grief he gave to the Indian team [along with Qadir]
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Date: 2007-11-20 01:41 am (UTC)Botham-wise, I think it's easy to forget just how turgid Test cricket (or at least the bits of it played by England) could be at times during the early 80s. If you'd spent four hours watching Chris Tavare prodding and poking, a twenty minute Botham cameo was all the more memorable and welcome.