Six greatest West Indian cricketers

Well, the jury (of 30, as it turns out) duly declared their verdict on the five greatest West Indian Test cricketers of all time, and these are the players they decided on (in alphabetical order):

George Headley
Brian Lara
Sir Vivian Richards
Sir Garfield Sobers
Sir Frank Worrell

So my own list of three days ago scores 4 out of 5. I've still got a gripe: not one bowler. It's an outrage. As big Joel Garner says:

I fail to see how you can pick the top five cricketers and don't pick a bowler... If you pick all batsmen, something has got to be wrong.

The answer is contained in this:

[T]he selection was made purely on a tabulation of votes based on the submission of each member of the jury...

And it's also true that if you do put in a bowler, then you've got to dump one of the five who actually made it, which isn't going to be easy. My list omitted George Headley - a grievous error, I subsequently realised. Headley had a Test batting average of 60. Even so, even so. Malcolm Marshall should have made it. Nothing for it, therefore, but to settle on a famous six West Indian Test cricketers: the five the jury chose, plus Malcolm Marshall.

Belatedly, I came across this: a number of people choosing and justifying their lists of five greatest West Indian cricketers.