South Africa has the number one in all four ICC Test Ranking
categories- Amla batting, Steyn bowling and Kallis allroundering, as
well as obviously being the top ranked team.
Has this ever happened before?
by Maxx » Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:12:45
Has this ever happened before?
by alve » Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:31:33
> Has this ever happened before?
by Maxx » Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:39:39
> > Has this ever happened before?
> Yes. SG Law held all the individual rankings simultaneously and carried the
> team to #1 as well.
by Jellor » Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:33:11
> > > South Africa has the number one in all four ICC Test Ranking
> > > categories- Amla batting, Steyn bowling and Kallis allroundering, as
> > > well as obviously being the top ranked team.
> > > Has this ever happened before?
> > Yes. SG Law held all the individual rankings simultaneously and carried the
> > team to #1 as well.
> I'll take that as a No then.
by Andrew B » Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:51:50
> Has this ever happened before?
by Maxx » Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:25:53
> > Has this ever happened before?
> Might depend on how far back you're prepared to go. After the 1948 Ashes, Bradman was the top batsman, Lindwall the top bowler and (I suspect) Miller the top all-rounder.
by Mike Holman » Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:42:30
>Has this ever happened before?
Cheers,
Mike
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by Maxx » Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:50:34
> >South Africa has the number one in all four ICC Test Ranking
> >categories- Amla batting, Steyn bowling and Kallis allroundering, as
> >well as obviously being the top ranked team.
> >Has this ever happened before?
> No. South Africa have never before been top in all those categories at
> once.
by Mad Hamis » Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:06:48
>> Has this ever happened before?
>Might depend on how far back you're prepared to go. After the 1948 Ashes, Bradman was the top batsman, Lindwall the top bowler and (I suspect) Miller the top all-rounder.
it's possible you'd have a time when Rhodes or Woolley was the top
allrounder, Hobbs the top batsman and Barnes the top bowler
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by Bob Duber » Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:15:52
> Has this ever happened before?
by Maxx » Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:26:09
> >South Africa has the number one in all four ICC Test Ranking
> >categories- Amla batting, Steyn bowling and Kallis allroundering, as
> >well as obviously being the top ranked team.
> >Has this ever happened before?
> No. South Africa have never before been top in all those categories at
> once.
by Andrew B » Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:26:58
> > South Africa has the number one in all four ICC Test Ranking
> > categories- Amla batting, Steyn bowling and Kallis allroundering, as
> > well as obviously being the top ranked team.
> > Has this ever happened before?
> Don't know. I do know that for most of the time international cricket
> has been played there were no rankings, so, to use the obvious
> example, Clive Lloyd's West Indies teams never held all the top spots
> in the rankings because there were no rankings.
by Maxx » Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:32:43
> > South Africa has the number one in all four ICC Test Ranking
> > categories- Amla batting, Steyn bowling and Kallis allroundering, as
> > well as obviously being the top ranked team.
> > Has this ever happened before?
> Don't know. I do know that for most of the time international cricket
> has been played there were no rankings, so, to use the obvious
> example, Clive Lloyd's West Indies teams never held all the top spots
> in the rankings because there were no rankings.
Check it out:
http://www.relianceiccrankings.com/datespecific/test/
by Maxx » Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:54:25
> >> South Africa has the number one in all four ICC Test Ranking
> >> categories- Amla batting, Steyn bowling and Kallis allroundering, as
> >> well as obviously being the top ranked team.
> >> Has this ever happened before?
> >Might depend on how far back you're prepared to go. After the 1948 Ashes, Bradman was the top batsman, Lindwall the top bowler and (I suspect) Miller the top all-rounder.
> Could be interesting around WWI as well.
> it's possible you'd have a time when Rhodes or Woolley was the top
> allrounder, Hobbs the top batsman and Barnes the top bowler
by John Hal » Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:48:40
>> > South Africa has the number one in all four ICC Test Ranking
>> > categories- Amla batting, Steyn bowling and Kallis allroundering, as
>> > well as obviously being the top ranked team.
>> > Has this ever happened before?
>> Don't know. I do know that for most of the time international cricket
>> has been played there were no rankings, so, to use the obvious
>> example, Clive Lloyd's West Indies teams never held all the top spots
>> in the rankings because there were no rankings.
>They never held all the top spots in the retrospective rankings
>because at the time the best all-rounders were Botham, Hadlee,
>Imran and Kapil while the WI just had great bowlers who could
>bat a bit.
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