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Geoff Armstrong has worked as a writer, editor and publisher on more than 70 books on sport—over 30 of them on cricket alone. Between 1993 and 2005, he collaborated with Steve Waugh on each of Steve’s 12 best-selling books, including Steve’s autobiography Out of My Comfort Zone.
Geoff is the author of A Century of Summers, the centenary history of the Sheffield Shield and ESPN’s Legends of Cricket which profiles 25 of the game’s greatest players. He has worked on books with Mike Whitney, David Boon, Merv Hughes, Justin Langer, Ian Healy, Michael Slater, Bob Simpson, Neil Marks, Michael Bevan and Geoff Lawson. Geoff is also the co-author of Phar Lap the definitive biography of the legendary racehorse.
This debatable book The 100 Greatest Cricketers was released in 2007 where he come up with a list of the best players of all time, places them in nine teams, and then nominated his favorite all-time player Doug Walters as the '100th man'.
The 1st XI: WG Grace, Jack Hobbs, Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar, Graeme Pollock, Garry Sobers, Adam Gilchrist, Imran Khan, Malcolm Marshall, Shane Warne and Sydney Barnes.
The 2nd XI: Len Hutton, Victor Trumper, Viv Richards, Wally Hammond, Brian Lara, Ian Botham, Alan Knott, Richard Hadlee, Dennis Lillee, Fred Spofforth, and Muttiah Muralitharan.
The 3rd XI: Sunil Gavaskar, Herbert Sutcliffe, George Headley, Greg Chappell, Frank Worrell, Kapil Dev, Wasim Akram, Jack Blackham, George Lohmann, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn McGrath.
The 4rth XI: Archie MacLaren, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes, Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Keith Miller, Wilfred Rhodes, Alan Davidson, Jim Laker, Godfrey Evans and Curtly Ambrose.
The 5th XI: Barry Richards, Arthur Shrewsbury, Ricky Ponting, KS Ranjitsinhji, Denis Compton, Frank Woolley, Richie Benaud, Syed Kirmani, Ray Lindwall, Fred Trueman and Alec Bedser.
The 6th XI: Virender Sehwag, Geoff Boycott, Rahul Dravid, Charlie Macartney, Javed Miandad, Mike Procter, Les Ames, Harold Larwood, Joel Garner, Bishan Bedi and Bhagwat Chandrasekhar.
The 7th XI: Bob Simpson, Matthew Hayden, Rohan Kanhai, Neil Harvey, Ken Barrington, Monty Noble, Johnny Briggs, Wasim Bari, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding and Charlie Turner.
The 8th XI: Graham Gooch, Billy Murdoch, Clem Hill, Peter May, Dudley Nourse, Jacques Kallis, Ian Healy, Hugh Trumble, Fazal Mahmood, John Snow and Waqar Younis.
The 9th XI: Stan McCabe, Herbie Taylor, Vijay Hazare, Clive Lloyd, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Andy Flower, Andrew Flintoff, Bill Lockwood, Jeff Thomson, Tom Richardson and Arthur Mailey.
IMHO there are lot of great players missing in these XI's while some who don't even deserve to be in top 200 are there... Discuss!
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Geoff Armstrong has worked as a writer, editor and publisher on more than 70 books on sport—over 30 of them on cricket alone. Between 1993 and 2005, he collaborated with Steve Waugh on each of Steve’s 12 best-selling books, including Steve’s autobiography Out of My Comfort Zone.
Geoff is the author of A Century of Summers, the centenary history of the Sheffield Shield and ESPN’s Legends of Cricket which profiles 25 of the game’s greatest players. He has worked on books with Mike Whitney, David Boon, Merv Hughes, Justin Langer, Ian Healy, Michael Slater, Bob Simpson, Neil Marks, Michael Bevan and Geoff Lawson. Geoff is also the co-author of Phar Lap the definitive biography of the legendary racehorse.
This debatable book The 100 Greatest Cricketers was released in 2007 where he come up with a list of the best players of all time, places them in nine teams, and then nominated his favorite all-time player Doug Walters as the '100th man'.
The 1st XI: WG Grace, Jack Hobbs, Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar, Graeme Pollock, Garry Sobers, Adam Gilchrist, Imran Khan, Malcolm Marshall, Shane Warne and Sydney Barnes.
The 2nd XI: Len Hutton, Victor Trumper, Viv Richards, Wally Hammond, Brian Lara, Ian Botham, Alan Knott, Richard Hadlee, Dennis Lillee, Fred Spofforth, and Muttiah Muralitharan.
The 3rd XI: Sunil Gavaskar, Herbert Sutcliffe, George Headley, Greg Chappell, Frank Worrell, Kapil Dev, Wasim Akram, Jack Blackham, George Lohmann, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn McGrath.
The 4rth XI: Archie MacLaren, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes, Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Keith Miller, Wilfred Rhodes, Alan Davidson, Jim Laker, Godfrey Evans and Curtly Ambrose.
The 5th XI: Barry Richards, Arthur Shrewsbury, Ricky Ponting, KS Ranjitsinhji, Denis Compton, Frank Woolley, Richie Benaud, Syed Kirmani, Ray Lindwall, Fred Trueman and Alec Bedser.
The 6th XI: Virender Sehwag, Geoff Boycott, Rahul Dravid, Charlie Macartney, Javed Miandad, Mike Procter, Les Ames, Harold Larwood, Joel Garner, Bishan Bedi and Bhagwat Chandrasekhar.
The 7th XI: Bob Simpson, Matthew Hayden, Rohan Kanhai, Neil Harvey, Ken Barrington, Monty Noble, Johnny Briggs, Wasim Bari, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding and Charlie Turner.
The 8th XI: Graham Gooch, Billy Murdoch, Clem Hill, Peter May, Dudley Nourse, Jacques Kallis, Ian Healy, Hugh Trumble, Fazal Mahmood, John Snow and Waqar Younis.
The 9th XI: Stan McCabe, Herbie Taylor, Vijay Hazare, Clive Lloyd, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Andy Flower, Andrew Flintoff, Bill Lockwood, Jeff Thomson, Tom Richardson and Arthur Mailey.
IMHO there are lot of great players missing in these XI's while some who don't even deserve to be in top 200 are there... Discuss!
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