In April 2014 Martin Crowe named his top-ranked 50 players of all time. How many can you name?
FEBRUARY 2024 UPDATE: Please email your nominations for the top 10 players since 2015 to us at jhall@legalsearch.nz and we'll expand this quiz accordingly.
Players were most active in the date periods given, and may have played some games outside these periods
I'm taking nominations for the 10 best cricketers active from 2015. Martin Crowe can't update this list - he died in 2016 - so let's see how well we can channel him! Please email your nominations to me at jhall@legalsearch.nz and I'll expand the quiz to 60 players based on your votes.
Nice quiz. I thought I wrote 'Weekes' and 'Worrell' correctly but they weren't accepted. (Might have spelled them wrong though.) Crowe obviously didn't rate Clive Lloyd!
Weekes and Worrell work now. You had spelt them correctly; the mistake was at our end - apologies. We thought about Lloyd too - but who would you drop to make way for him?
Inspired to play this (my favourite of your cricket quizzes) again by the appearance of cricket on the front page. And I still have a blind-spot for pre-1950 players...
Bedser and Evans aren't in this company. Lindwall was far superior to Bedser in that era, and Evans was the first to admit he wasn't up to Knott's standard.
For his captaincy that destroyed a stronger Australian side I'd put Jardine and his bowler Larwood in. His Bodyline tactics was genius and changed cricket forever. It left Australia still sulking even to this day.
This is a troll of course. I actually thought Larwood a show but yes one series isn't enough. And Jardine was a pathetic cricketer and a worse human being.