Who would be your top 10 greatest Asian cricketers?

[Migara]

My top ten Asian cricketers
1 . Mansur Ali Khan Patodi
2 Sachin Tendulkar
3Kapil Dev
4.Wasim Akram
5. Sunil Gavaskar
6. Rahul Dravid
7.Waqar
8.Jayawardene
9.Kumble
10.Murali

Sangakkara >> Jayawardane

 

[Migara]

Quite amazing that for an All-time Asian top 10, most people, including myself only included the 1 spinner in Murali (albeit a couple having Kumble as well)

The reason may be that only Murali and Kumble were able to bowl their teams to the victory when touring overseas. Murali's record is much better than any of the Asian spinners BTW (22 vs 28 - 32)

 

[stumpski]

Colin Cowdrey

 

[Avada Kedavra]

Sangakkara >> Jayawardane

Not as a batsman alone imo

 

[G.I.Joe]

The CW top 50 exercise had Tendulkar higher than Imran IIRC. Considering Imran's done nothing of note since then, while Tendulkar's churned out a 200 in a 50 over game, and hundreds in India'squest to remain #1, I'd say it still holds true.

 

[Avada Kedavra]

You start a thread and chicken out of doing it yourself.

So who is your number 2? Imran or Sachin?

How am I chickening out?I find it hard to split Imran and Sachin.Imran gets more points for being an all rounder as opposed to a pure bat - although Sachin is a handy bowler and may even have 100-150 test wickets if India hadn't been blessed with spinning riches.When talking about greatness I also tend to factor in the number of controversies-others may disagree.This is one area where Sachin is quite far ahead of the rest,even Imran.Furthermore if you factor ODIs,it is even harder to split them because Imran wasn't all that as an ODI player.

Murali for me is the best simply because he has been phenomenally consistent.His stats are mindblowing for a spinner.He has been part of a WC winning team,a CT winning side,2nd most test wins for an Asian after Tendulkar,a few Asia Cup winning sides.......

 

[zaremba]

A more interesting challenge would be to name the top 10 cricketers of an Asian background who don't play for an Asian team.

Chee Quee surely number 1.

Quite a few played for England, and (depending on how far you go back genealogically speaking) the West Indies

 

[Jono]

This thread reminds me of Benchy's pic:

Murali and Imran rank 16 and 17 though, no doubt.

 

[Avada Kedavra]

Imran,Sachin,Murali in whatever order will be the top 3 for most.4-10 are trickier. Gavaskar,Kapil Dev, Wasim, Waqar,Dravid are must haves in the top 10 imo....the reamianing 2 spots is a toss up between the likes of De Silva,Sanga,Jayasuriya,Jayawardene,Miandad,Inzamam,Kumble,Azharuddin,the Indian spin trio,Fazal Mahmood.Even Sehwag may be worth a shout.I picked Kumble largely because of his 600+ test wickets which is the batting equivalent of 12k test runs.Jayawardene also made my list because almost 10k runs in tests is not easy.Like Kumble his away record isn't stellar but good enough to make the top 10 Asian players imo.

 

[Avada Kedavra]

This thread reminds me of Benchy's pic:

Murali and Imran rank 16 and 17 though, no doubt.

 

[weldone]

1. Muttiah Muralitharan
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Sunil Gavaskar (because he's more likely to feature in my all-time World XI than the next 2 guys)
4. Imran Khan
5. Wasim Akram
6. Javed Miandad
7. Kapil Dev
8. Rahul Dravid
9. Waqar Younis
10. Kumar Sangakkara

Positions 6-9 can be in any order, though.

 

[Xuhaib]

1. Muttiah Muralitharan
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Sunil Gavaskar (because he's more likely to feature in my all-time World XI than the next 2 guys)
4. Imran Khan
5. Wasim Akram
6. Javed Miandad
7. Kapil Dev
8. Rahul Dravid
9. Waqar Younis
10. Kumar Sangakkara

Positions 6-9 can be in any order, though.

Gilchrist is most like to make an all time world XI but that does not mean he is among the best XI of all time

 

[weldone]

Gilchrist is most like to make an all time world XI but that does not mean he is among the best XI of all time

He'll be in mine...depends on how each person defines best...otherwise a list of greatest players will always be dominated by great all-rounders with a few like Bradman and Marshall in between...

 

[honestbharani]

The CW top 50 exercise had Tendulkar higher than Imran IIRC. Considering Imran's done nothing of note since then, while Tendulkar's churned out a 200 in a 50 over game, and hundreds in India'squest to remain #1, I'd say it still holds true.

 

[Xuhaib]

He'll be in mine...depends on how each person defines best...otherwise a list of greatest players will always be dominated by great all-rounders with a few like Bradman and Marshall in between...

fair enough.

 

[The Sean]

The CW top 50 exercise had Tendulkar higher than Imran IIRC. Considering Imran's done nothing of note since then, while Tendulkar's churned out a 200 in a 50 over game, and hundreds in India'squest to remain #1, I'd say it still holds true.

Speaking of which, according to the CW50, Asia's 10 highest ranked cricketers were:

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Imran Khan
3. Muttiah Muralitharan
4. Wasim Akram
5. Sunil Gavaskar
6. Kapil Dev
7. Waqar Younis
8. Rahul Dravid
9. Chaminda Vaas
10. CK Nayudu

Vaas a little out of place there TBH.

 

[Teja.]

1.Imran Khan
2.Sachin Tendulkar
3.Muttiah Muralitharan
4.Waqar Younis
5.Sunil Gavaskar
6.Wasim Akram
7.Kapil Dev
8.Javed Miandad
9.Rahul Dravid
10.Kumar Sangakkara

Note that this is a list of only Post WWII players as I do not consider myself knowledgeable enough about Pre-war cricketers to compare them with ones I've seen or read about more.

 

[Teja.]

Top 10 Asian Cricketers from CMJ's list would be:-

1.Sachin Tendulkar(9)
2.Muttiah Muralitharan(13)
3.Imran Khan(14)
4.Sunil Gavaskar(26)
5.Wasim Akram(34)
6.Waqar Younis(36)
7.Kapil Dev(48)
8.Javed Miandad(57)
9.Kumar Sangakkara(58)
10.Bishen Bedi(62)

The overall list is a bit English heavy, one may feel.

 

[Migara]

Not as a batsman alone imo

Their ODI record is comparable as well as test record. But Saga does very well away from home. (Avg 50 vs 36). Add the keeping as well. Yes he may not be eye candy as Jayawardane, but a much better player and a class above Jaya.

 

[Matt79]

Brett Lee (gets in via his Chinese heritage)