Gary Sobers is Mr Cricket. Nobody comes close--not even the incomparable Bradman

Sobers all the way ... Sober is legend .. 40 overs per match average close to 58 .. shows how good temperament sobers had ... Kallis was good but sober is a legend

Kallis was a great all-rounder. But Sobers was incomparable.

Sir Garfield Sobers was the greatest of all cricketers

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Just in batting, Sobers played in an era of uncovered pitches, 6 bouncers per over, any number of fielders behind square on the leg-side, *no helmets*, and *opened* the innings. And yet averages more than Kallis, Lara, Tendulkar, Ponting etc. There's no comparison, really.

That is a tough one, I'll probably go for Sobers because of his destructive batting.

Kallis v sobers is no contest. All other all rounders (botham, Dev, Kahn, stokes,etc) batted at 5 through 8. Sobers one third of his tests at 4 and the rest at 5,6 or even 7. Lots of not outs on those slots. Kallis batted at three and four. That’s it. A batters batter. Where Sachin, Lara and Ponting bat. Take away Sobers one knock of 350 odd not not and he dips to 54. Also half of Kallis’s innings were in SA. Which is renowned as the hardest place to bat. Everyone who bats in SA averages 10 lower than anywhere else. Yet he averages 55. In a premium batting slot. From 1999 to 2013. His average was 62. That’s Steven smith averages for 14 years. His batting is another league. Bowled 20 overs per test vs sobers 43. And by default therefore could’ve reached 500 wickets had they tossed him the ball more. Just because the likes of Steyn, Donald, Pollock. philander, Morkel bowled ahead of him made it hard to get a slot. So was always a first or second change bowler. Bowled 145 to 150 k on a well rested day. When not recovering from his batting There’s just no other way to put it. Greatest cricketer the world has ever seen. Indeed all rounder. Ofcourse there were better batters and bowlers. And yes bradmans feats with the bat outweigh even Kallis. But cricketer implies bowling, batting and fielding. So he is no doubt the greatest “cricketer” ever. 25000 runs 500 plus wickets if you add ODI’s Trust me anyone reading this .... your grandchildren won’t ever see that record broken. Just like we won’t see Bradmans record broken. King Kallis is an apt name

Kallis for me, but both players played in different eras. Modern bowlers and batsman are way better than in the past and doing what Kallis did sets him apart.

It seems to be Sobers. He held the world record 365 I think until Lara broke it. And his flexibility as a bowler. He could bowl spin, fast swing, left arm right arm etc. I am a South African, but I have to go with Sobers. He hit 6 sixes in an over as well.

Never saw Sir Sobers So Kallis is the greatest for me

You can't determine an allrounder's greatness by the batting and bowling difference .......it favours the batting allrounder's too much. What i mean is batting average's are always higher,it's not fair to bowling allrounder's. More accurately the batting average aim in test cricket is to average between 40 to 60,while for bowler's the aim is to average between 20 to 30 at the 'elite level' . That's a 2 to 1 ratio, or 20 to 10 run difference, so if you convert the bowling average to a 'batting average' as such and then added it to the batting average that makes 100% sense. For example a 60 batting average equates to a 20.00 bowling average, a 59 batting average equates to a 20.50 bowling average, a 58 batting average equates to a 21.00 bowling average......ect,ect ......while a 50 batting average equates to a 25.00 bowling average........ect,ect.....while a 45 batting average equates to a 27.50 bowling average......ect,ect.....then a 40 batting average equates to equates to a 30 batting average. Thereafter it's 1 run for 1 run as in a 39 batting average equates to equates to a 31 bowling average and a 38 batting average equates to equates to a 32 bowling average........you can go to a 'maximum' of a 30 batting average equates to equates to a 40 bowling average. Using MY system......Gary Sobers is on top with a combined average of 93.74, second is Jacques Kallis with 92.71, third is Imran Khan with 92.06 and Keith Miller with 91.02 in fourth place......ect. It's worth noting when you see the high batting averages for Sobers and Kallis at around 58 and 55 respectively compared with the batting averages of Imran Khan and Miller of about 38 and 37 it's somewhat in reverse with the bowling averages once they are converted. Sobers has a 'converted' bowling average of 36 ,Kallis is around 37.......while for Imran Khan and Miller there 'converted' bowling averages are at around 54. THIS IS THE BEST "QUALITY" SYSTEM

#1... Sobers #2 ...Miller Take your pick on the rest. Both these players played on uncovered pitches, 8 ball overs and in Miller's case he missed 7 years because of WW2 when he was in his prime

They played in totally different era, comparing them is very tough.. I guess sobers was the best. Jaque was the best of his generation.. I think Imran was also a wonderful all rounder.. My favorite was hadlee because of his amazing bowling skills..

No comparison. Sobers

My usual method of comparing all rounders is to take their batting average, add it to the number of wickets per test x 10 and number of catches divided by 10. This means Sobers has a score of 92, Kallis is 84, Imran is 80, Botham 81, Miller 73, Hadlee 80 and Kapil Dev 70. This is an attempt to normalise batting and bowling and put them on a more even footing. The simple taking one average away from the other benefits batsmen too much in my view. It still yields IMHO the right result: Sobers as the clear best, because most good judges say he's the best ever.

Sir Garfield sober is the best most destructive the man who hits six sixes in one over

Kallis.. No dout.....

FOR ME KALLIS WITHOUT A DOUBT SIMPLY BECAUSE KALLIS PLAYED WAY MORE TEST MATCHES PLUS HE HAS D STATS TO PROVE IT SO FOR ME HE WAS D GREATEST CRICKETER OF ALL TIME

Kallis vs minnows(Zim,Bang,WI):36 tests,3352 runs @ 83.80,90 wickets @ 23.46.Vs Rest 130 tests, 9937 runs @ 49.69,202 wickets @ 36.75.Sobers only minnow opponent was NZ(India was borderline) and he hardly bothered when he played against them.Take out his 12 miserable tests against NZ and his record reads,81 tests,7628 runs @ 62.52,216 wickets @ 33.88.Sobers performed better against tougher opponents.

Kallis was a great player, but anyone who thinks he was a better player than Sobers never saw Sobers. Sir Garry was the best allround cricketer and the best batsman I've ever seen and my memory goes back to the 1950s. No-one else even comes close.

Undoubtedly the 'great' Sir Garfield Sobers.

For me Kallis without any doubt

All are greats.......but it takes some fitness to play more matches.

Are you guys crazy ??? Comparing ANY all-rounder to GARY SOBER'S. The other guys were All-Rounders but the ALL-ROUNDER was GARY SOBERS !!!

For me every mouth every should bow to kallis

You compared the sobbers and kallis bowling by taking had sobers played 166 match and didnt take into account how many overs they bowled. Bcos the bowling strike rate of kallis (in 60s) is better than sobers (90s) and there was not much difference in average. Bowler can take wickets only if overs are given to bowl right??? So the comparison made as a whole is not correct in my opinion!!

Sobers faced Trueman, Miller, Lindwall and others I agree with mizofan

To compare Kallis to Sobers? Really? I guess people need a living.

kallis is the best all-rounder ever

Both were batting All rounders not genuine ones

kallis is the best

Garry sobers can only be considered as ba batsman because he had an strike rate of over 85+ in test cricket bowling . It means he takes almost 15 overs to take a single wicket Where as kallis has 65 far better than Gary. In my opinion kallis is the greatest batting all-rounder and Imran is the greatest bowling all rounder.

kallis is obviously better.... he faced wasim ambrose mgrath younis aktar ect theres a list of 30 strike bowlers and has scored solud runs against all of them. and has bowled against harder batting line ups. stupid comparison . sobers was ahead of his time kallis is better and the best easily

No

Kallis played against more weak international nations than Sobers. Sobers was a more devastating and exciting attacking batsman, He took more wickets per test than Kallis, who became more of a batsman in his later years. Kallis deserves great credit, but Sobers remains the greatest all-rounder.

kallis all the way

1 sobers 2, procter

Only sobers

Lmao. Forgot numbers. Garry was easily the best. Easily the best basement of all time behind Don. Garry was just amazing cricketer.

Kallis is a whiteman's makeup. These people who sit and fancy themselves to know all are in most cases half wit cricketers of the past. These commentat

Kallis always,bcz sobers didn't plays ODIs and was a spinner.

Kallis is not an all rounder

This claim about Kallis is just another whiteman's great self booster. He wants to make himself the greatest and master of all things. No on the hand i read a whiteman's story where he made a review and noted the difference between the number of centuries Kallis and The great Brian Lara. Kallis has more, fifty at least. But he also said that of the fifty or so that Kallis has, he can't recall any with glee or excitement when looking back, but can recall at least 25 of Lara's. So the notion that you can make a comparison between the very greatest Sir. Garfield Sobers and Kallis is comparing chalk with cheese. He's a joke compared to Sir. Garry. Sir. Garry was a master and magician on a cricket field. I too can recall plenty of Sir Garfield's innings with glee and excitement and not one of Kallis's