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100 greatest Ashes players

chunkyshanhawk53

chunkyshanhawk53

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I love a good list, so this should be fun

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We set our judges three rules:

1) Choose your 50 greatest players in men’s Ashes history, ranked in order from No 1 (the best) to No 50.
2) Include at least 15 players from each country.
3) Choose at least five players from each era*.

*We established five “eras” to combat recency bias: players who made their debut before the first world war; in the interwar years; from the second world war to 1974; from 1975 to 1999; and from 2000 onwards.

The No 1 choice of each judge was awarded 50 points, No 2 given 49pts, down to 1pt for their No 50 choice. All the votes were added together to give a final score.
 

I am not signed up but would be interesting in seeing the results if anyone can post them. Going to guess a top 10 of Warne, Barnes, Hutton, Gilchrist, Lillee, Botham, Spofforth, Bradman , Broad and McGrath
 
chunkyshanhawk53 said:
It’s a countdown, here is 100-41

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Top man, cheers - thought I had to sign up but I just needed to close the advertising banner!

Gooch seems low, as does Hayden. Brearley purely selected for captaincy seems wrong too, no disputing his leadership ability but in 77 and 78/79, the Aussies were decimated by Packer defectors. He can take some credit for 81 but it's called Botham's Ashes with good reason..
 
The Breen Machine said:
Top man, cheers - thought I had to sign up but I just needed to close the advertising banner!

Gooch seems low, as does Hayden. Brearley purely selected for captaincy seems wrong too, no disputing his leadership ability but in 77 and 78/79, the Aussies were decimated by Packer defectors. He can take some credit for 81 but it's called Botham's Ashes with good reason..
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Always going to have some weird positions given the range of voters and the fact that they can vote for 50!

Bit of fun mind
 
chunkyshanhawk53 said:
Now updated down to number 11

Broad didn’t make the top 10!

Bradman, Botham, Warne, McGrath, Such, Waugh….who else?
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Just looked there, Cook and Pietersen are a bit low. Flintoff ahead of Stokes?! One good series...

Must be Bradman, Warne, Botham, S. Waugh, McGrath, Lillee, Border and the others I haven't guessed yet. Going back to the early days, Bannerman? Hobbs? Hutton?
 
Broad should have been top 10. His Ashes numbers and match winning spells alone should have been enough.
Can just about understand Flintoff ahead of Stokes, 05 Player of the series, 09 MOTM at Lords. Both winning series.
Mind you if we win this series then Stokes goes top 10, even a drawn series if Stokes performs probably puts him above him.
Root can climb higher with a good series.
KP seems too low given hes won Ashes home and away and averaged nigh on 50 in that 06/07 whitewash.
Mitch Johnson at 36? One awesome unbelievable series that dont know whether he should be higher on that alone or lower because he was average in the others
The Breen Machine said:
Bloody knew I wouldn't have read it properly. Steve Smith?


I always wonder this! Given we were picking Croft and Salisbury and Tufnell was always in and out of favour.

He couldn't bat but then neither could most of our bowlers in those days.
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Smith has something like 12 Ashes hundreds
 
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