My favourite opening pair is Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes. Of course, I admire batsmen like Alvin Kallicharan, Roy Fredricks; Chris Gayle; Steven Comacho; Jimmy Adams.
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Best WI Opening Pair of All Times
In reply to Slipfeeler
that is not even debatable the two bajans and it stops there.
In reply to Slipfeeler
Suruj Ragoonath and......???
Fredericks & Greenidge for me
In reply to Raggs
I think Greenidge and Haynes were the longest WI opening pair but I am open to be corrected.
In reply to Slipfeeler
In reply to Slipfeeler
Alvin Kallicharran opened the batting twice.
Jimmy Adam opened the batting once.
All others mentioned were bona _fide opening batsmen.
In reply to Slipfeeler
Greenidge and Haynes as a pair beats everyone else hands down...Maybe the best opening pair of all time
In reply to Bigzinc
he is entitled to look for #2 of windies' time. #1 isn't even an argument.
Greenidge & Haynes or Hayden & Langer.
A coin toss between the two partnerships as the best of all-time, nobody else comes close.
In reply to TheTrail
Here goes Slippery making up stories again.
Philo and Clayton
In reply to tc1
We know that even Lawrence Rowe and Richard Austin opened the batting for WI on separate occasions not as a pair, I was just trying to remember some players who opened for WI.
In reply to doosra
That was two guys just trying to beat the cover off the ball no matter the situation.
In reply to Slipfeeler
Kanhai, and Sobers opened too.I just messing with u
Freddo and Greenidge...just needed more time
In reply to Slipfeeler
Ganga and Campbell
Dumb thread. There's only one REAL answer
In reply to Gun_Play
no matter the situation until dem run into white lightening
Gayle and Hinds....
In terms of numbers one will never argue against Greenidge and Haynes being our best opening pair.
But in terms of potential quality, I think Greenidge and Richard Austin (Danny Germs) would have have become the best. In fact, if Austin had not played the fool with drugs and bad choices, I do not think Haynes would have made the WI team. Danny had so much class and cricket gifts, but literally destroyed himself. I will go so far and say that we might not have had Jeff Dujon on the WI team, if "Danny Germs" simply wanted to play as a batsman/keeper (at their prime, Danny Germs was a better keeper than Jeffrey and certainly a better batsman)
I know I will be put down for touting Danny Germs so much, but he really was that good/excellent. On a personal level I have hard time deciding who was our best opener over the past 80 years(Greenidge, Hunte, Fredricks, Stolleymer, Haynes or Rae)
Ganga and Gayle.
Statistically they were the best opening pair in the history of WI cricket. This is an example of how stats can at times be useless.
Gordon and Desmond. End of story
In reply to solidrock
Danny Germs was such an all-round cricketer, with bat, ball and wicketkeeping. The guy could bowl both spin and medium pace at an international level. Such a self-inflicted loss of his cricket career. Guy was such a sportsman, a wicked soccer star and an avid table tennis player.
In reply to solidrock...
In reply to Slipfeeler
Richard Austin second to Gary Sobers in the cricketing sense.
In reply to Raggs
After Gary Sobers and some daylight, Bernard Julien and Dwayne Bravo are the next best all rounders in West Indies cricket.
Richard Austin isn't daylight. Myth based on perceived potential....not performance
In reply to imusic
1) Greenidge and Haynes
2) Fredericks and Rowe (short but sweet)
In reply to Slipfeeler
when you started this thread i thought it would get two replies...at most.
However I keep forgetting that millennials and their lack of accepting given facts in our world is quickly sending us to hell in hand baskets..lol.
Unnu never accept stuff..arab spring..now..arab nightmare. They really causing havoc around the world.
Their latest action...elected a rass hole to the US presidency.
Just as pointless to discuss if other people were better than Greenidge and Haynes.
Blasphemous
In reply to Tagwa1
Opinions tend to escalate into arguments, the contentious ones always extends the life of a thread. Happy New Year!
In reply to Slipfeeler
All the best for 2017, to you and family.
Fredericks and Greenidge!
Greenidge and Haynes
in that order!
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