CLR James rated St Hill very highly, almost on par with Headley. Charles Davis (not zscore) also misses out. Sarwan, Gayle and Adams aren't up to the high standard.
1. Gary Sobers 2. George Headley 3. Brian Lara 4. Everton Weekes 5. Clyde Walcott 6. Rohan Kanhai 7. Viv Richards 8. Frank Worrell 9. Clive Lloyd 10. Gordon Greenidge 11. Conrad Hunte 12. Seymour Nurse 13. Alvin Kallicharan 14. Lawrence Rowe 15. Basil Butcher 16. Richie Richardson 17. Roy Fredericks 18. Jeff Stollmeyer 19. Desmond Haynes 20. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Why no room for Basil Butcher, Salim?
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He's too great a batsman to be mentioned in this company.
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Originally posted by Pontoon: Sobers Headley Lara Kanhai Viv Richards Weekes Worrell Walcott Hunte Greenidge Richardson Lloyd Kallicharran Fredericks Nurse Rowe Haynes Chanderpaul Stollmeyer Wilton St Hill
CLR James rated St Hill very highly, almost on par with Headley. Charles Davis (not zscore) also misses out. Sarwan, Gayle and Adams aren't up to the high standard.
Very good Pontoon.
Positions 4-8 on the list are pretty much of the same standard. I would probably order them Worrell, Richards, Weekes, Kanhai, Walcott but there's not much in it.
Wilton St Hill is one of cricket's lost 'greats' who were not able to demonstrate their true genius at test level and deserves his spot on this list.
Originally posted by Leo: Why no room for Basil Butcher, Salim?
Simply don't know enough about him to have included him. HAven't read much literature on him. Was he good enough to remove one of my top 20?
I don't know a huge amount about him either, but he had a reputation as an aggressive player, and a record comparable with the likes of Richardson/Haynes/Chanderpaul.
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Butcher was a very fine batsman. Should be in place of Stollmeyer in Pontoon's list. I remember him very well causing England heaps of problems in 1963 and 1966.
I'm suprised none of the Australian forummers have mentioned Harry Gomes.
He was an average test player who seemed to turn into a giant whenever he played Australia.
Can any of you please tell me a little about Lloyd, Worrell and Kanhai, and what sort of players they were. Also, how would you compare them to each other? Worrell is rated highly by many, despite only scoring 8 centuries. Is it because of his captaincy skills?
My uncle who has played and watched a lot of cricket in his life reckons that Kanhai was the best batsman he has ever seen (incl Sobers, Lara, GSC, SRT etc). Not really sure what he means by best but apparently Kanhai was the sort of guy who had a number of shots for every ball.
