Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years
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@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
England
Beefy
Holy shit, tough here.....Gooch, Cook ?
England haven’t in all honestly had many test legends that stand out ( willing to be corrected )
England were dogshit for ages.
Jimmy Anderson is as good a swing bowler as there has been.
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@mariner4life Loved that show, and never take me seriously.
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@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
Pakistan
Imran
Miandad
Wasim
WaqarHmmmmm maybe the fat potato ?
Mohummad Yousef / Yousef Youhana
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@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
SL
Sangakara
Murali
JayawardneTwo more options available
Aravinda
And I've got a soft spot for Chaminda Vaas
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@mariner4life said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
Dan gets my vote if nothing else for the years he spent carrying us. Bowl a shitload on an unsuitable deck. Take wickets. Also keep the scoring rate down. Also come in at 5-120 and score 70-odd to avoid the follow-on. I'm surprised he can walk given his back must be wrecked.
Haha, I remember as a kid I used to think it was great when we didn't avoid the follow on as I got to see us bat again. Bearing in mind watching us bowl usually involved watching the opposition post 500+
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@mariner4life said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
England
Beefy
Holy shit, tough here.....Gooch, Cook ?
England haven’t in all honestly had many test legends that stand out ( willing to be corrected )
England were dogshit for ages.
Jimmy Anderson is as good a swing bowler as there has been.
Pietersen ? Style and a bit of mongrel.
England have had a bunch of ‘good’ players over this period but fuck all legends.
Based on that Gooch and Boycott get in. Bob Willis too ?
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@mariner4life said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
SL
Sangakara
Murali
JayawardneTwo more options available
Aravinda
And I've got a soft spot for Chaminda Vaas
Herath also took over 400 wickets
My soft spot is for Jayasuriya who got me in a lot of troubles with drinking games through the nineties lol, not a bad player either
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@bayimports said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
@mariner4life said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
SL
Sangakara
Murali
JayawardneTwo more options available
Aravinda
And I've got a soft spot for Chaminda Vaas
Herath also took over 400 wickets
My soft spot is for Jayasuriya who got me in a lot of troubles with drinking games through the nineties lol, not a bad player either
even as i typed out Vaas i knew Herath was the better choice. I just really liked Chaminda, that's all
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@mariner4life said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
Pakistan
Imran
Miandad
Wasim
WaqarHmmmmm maybe the fat potato ?
Mohummad Yousef / Yousef Youhana
bloody good lists but we are missing Younis Khan who was their only guy to score over 10k runs
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@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
Windies
Richards
Marshall
Lara
Ambrose
Still deciding on a fifthGiven 50 years hits the 70's this is tough
Sobers, Greenidge, Lloyd, Holding, Garner, Walsh
and more recently Chanderpaul
this is a tough 5!
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@bayimports said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
Windies
Richards
Marshall
Lara
Ambrose
Still deciding on a fifthGiven 50 years hits the 70's this is tough
Sobers, Greenidge, Lloyd, Holding, Garner, Walsh
and more recently Chanderpaul
this is a tough 5!
Sobers misses out cos of the time frame
I’d have to pick Garner, Holding or Walsh out of that bunch.
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@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
@mariner4life said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
England
Beefy
Holy shit, tough here.....Gooch, Cook ?
England haven’t in all honestly had many test legends that stand out ( willing to be corrected )
England were dogshit for ages.
Jimmy Anderson is as good a swing bowler as there has been.
Pietersen ? Style and a bit of mongrel.
England have had a bunch of ‘good’ players over this period but fuck all legends.
Based on that Gooch and Boycott get in. Bob Willis too ?
I would argue the quality of Root is there now, Cook kills on runs, but best over 50 years, I doubt, maybe lol? Broad has 500 wickets too
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@mariner4life said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
SL
Sangakara
Murali
JayawardneTwo more options available
Aravinda
And I've got a soft spot for Chaminda Vaas
Agree, 300 test wickets still means something even now, but especially from countries that play less test cricket like us and Sri Lanka.
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right will give the aussies a go
Warne, McGrath, Ponting, S Waugh ..... and Steve Smith I would argue is there now
too many over achieving convicts mentions to list and easily select a another 5 players
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@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
India
Gavaskar
Dev
Tendulkar
Dravid
KohliProbably spot on, Kumble also honorable mention
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@MN5 said in Five Greatest Black Caps of the Past 50 years:
England
Beefy
Holy shit, tough here.....Gooch, Cook ?
England haven’t in all honestly had many test legends that stand out ( willing to be corrected )
Botham
Willis (300+ wickets when they really meant something)
Alan Knott (contender for best wicket keeper ever)
Anderson
Gooch (genuine great opener)Tony Greig, Cook, Gower and Boycott would also be solid options.
