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The greatest cricketers from the subcontinent - how would you rank them?

Burgey

Burgey

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Coronis said:
Am I the only one who’s shocked Burgey didn’t put this up instead?

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AB’s tenure as captain probably mirrors Murali’s time playing for SL - both the stand out players (Border miles better, obvs) and both teams mostly horribly mediocre for a lot of the time. Border obviously left his side in a far greater position than Murali did with his though. Which is sort of understandable given their respective roles.

Anyway, I’ll be off to The Hague.
 
Gob

Gob

International Coach
Johan said:
a subcont ATG XI imo would be

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Vijay Merchant
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Kumar Sangakkara
6. VVS Laxman
7. Farooq Engineer ( Wk )
8. Imran Khan ( C )
9. Kapil Dev ( I like deep batting lineups )
10. Wasim Akram
11. Muttiah Muralitharan
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I like the idea of mentioning their respective professions it's just that you may aswell do it with everyone not just Farooq
 
Johan

Johan

State Vice-Captain
Migara said:
There is nothing to choose Engineer over Dhoni or PJ. With gloves PJ was better than Engineer, and was as equal with the bat. Dhoni, although a lesser keeper a superior batter to both Engineer and PJ,

And YK > VVS in any way you look at it.
If you need a ****ing long batting line ups, play Dinesh Chandimal as keeper bat, who averages 40 when keeping, and a superb keeper. Lesser with gloves than Dhoni, but superior bat. Actually a better batsman than both Imran and Kapil.
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Chandimal coming in for farooq is reasonable , YK's position is 3-4 which he is never getting and VVS averages 50+ at number 6 and was immensely clutch as a Batsmen so he gets the nod.
 
trundler

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Johan said:
Chandimal coming in for farooq is reasonable , YK's position is 3-4 which he is never getting and VVS averages 50+ at number 6 and was immensely clutch as a Batsmen so he gets the nod.
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YK gets in at 3 in half the games this side would play.
 
Shady Slim

Shady Slim

International Coach
Migara said:
There is nothing to choose Engineer over Dhoni or PJ. With gloves PJ was better than Engineer, and was as equal with the bat. Dhoni, although a lesser keeper a superior batter to both Engineer and PJ,
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@JBMAC knows a bit more about wicketkeeping than anyone on this site and he really rates engineer from what i remember - i'm happy to defer to him on this one
 
Pap Finn Keighl

Pap Finn Keighl

International Debutant
Gavaskar
Sachin
Imran
Akram
Murali
Kapil

6 elite ATGs. All good enough to be ranked among top 15 cricketers of alltime.
7th best Asian player will be at least 20 places below these guys.. Be it Waquar or Sanga or Miandad or Dravid.
 
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subshakerz

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Pap Finn Keighl said:
Gavaskar
Sachin
Imran
Akram
Murali
Kapil

6 elite ATGs. All good enough to be ranked among top 15 cricketers of alltime.
7th best Asian player will be at least 20 places below these guys.. Be it Waquar or Sanga or Miandad or Dravid.
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Kapil ain't in the top 15 or even top 20 ever sorry.
 
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