Fav batsman and bowler from each test playing nation

[deeps]

Aus: Clarke and Hogg
England: Strauss and Tudor
India: Dravid and Kartik
New Zealand: Vincent and Bond
Pakistan: Afridi and Afridi :P... Shoaib Malik as well
South Africa: Rudolph and Ntini
Sri Lanka: Atapattu and Fernando
West Indies: Lara and Lawson

 

[Jono]

Wow pretty old topic resurrected, and I never posted in this one. I'm going to do two lists, one of which contains players currently playing, others from the whole time I've watched cricket.

Whole Time Watching
Australia: Gilchrist, Warne
Bangladesh: Ashraful, Mushrafe Mortaza
England: Vaughan, Gough
India: Tendulkar, Kumble
New Zealand: Marshall, Bond
Pakistan: Anwar, Waqar
South Africa: Cronje, Donald
Sri Lanka: Sangakkara, Murali
West Indies: Lara, Ambrose
Zimbabwe: Andy Flower, Streak

Current
Australia: Gilchrist, Warne
Bangladesh: Ashraful, Mushrafe Mortaza
England: Vaughan, Simon Jones
India: Tendulkar, Kumble
New Zealand: Marshall, Bond
Pakistan: Youhana, Akhtar
South Africa: Kallis, Ntini
Sri Lanka: Sangakkara, Murali
West Indies: Lara, Pedro Collins
Zimbabwe: Taibu, Streak (?)

 

[Linda]

Australia - Martyn, Warne
Bangladesh - Bashar, thats about it
England - Flintoff, Flintoff
India - Laxman, Yuvraj (i dont like the bowlers )
New Zealand - Fleming, Vettori
Pakistan - Yousuf, Butt (no bowlers here either..)
South Africa - Smith, Ntini
Sri Lanka - Atapattu, Murali
West Indies - Lara, Samuels
Zimbabwe - prev. Ervine, Streak

 

[Snippie]

Australia: Gilchrist, Warne
England: Vaughan, Flintoff
India: Dravid, Kumble
New Zealand: Vincent, Vettori
Pakistan: Youhana, Akhtar
South Africa: Smith, Ntini (Have to add Polly as well!)
Sri Lanka: Sangakkara, Murali
West Indies: Lara, Best

 

[magsi23]

Australia: Ponting, Mcgrath
England: Flintoff, Vaughan
New Zealend: Astle, Bond
Pakistan: Inzy,Kaneria
India: Dravid, Zaheer
South Africa: Kallis, Ntini
WI: Gale, ?
Zimbabwe: Streak
Sri Lanka: Jayasuriya, Vaas

 

[Adamc]

No-specific-timeframe list:

Australia: Mark Taylor; Jason Gillespie
Bangladesh: Mohammad Ashraful/Aminul Islam; Mashrafe Mortaza
England: Graham Thorpe; Devon Malcolm
India: Virender Sehwag/Rahul Dravid; Anil Kumble
New Zealand: Nathan Astle; Shane Bond
Pakistan: Inzamam; Imran Khan/Abdul Qadir
South Africa: Gary Kirsten; Allan Donald/Brian McMillan
Sri Lanka: Aravinda de Silva/Kumar Sangakkara; Nuwan Zoysa
West Indies: Brian Lara; Malcolm Marshall/Curtley Ambrose
Zimbabwe: Andy Flower/Hamilton Masakaza; Henry Olonga

Favourite player overall is Brian Lara.

 

[Dasa]

Australia: Damien Martyn, Jason Gillespie
Bangladesh: Habibul Bashar, Mohammad Rafique
England: Michael Vaughan, Devon Malcolm
India: Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble
New Zealand: Stephen Fleming, Shane Bond
Pakistan: Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mushtaq Ahmed
South Africa: Gary Kirsten, Allan Donald
Sri Lanka: Aravinda de Silva, Muttiah Muralitharan
West Indies: Brian Lara, Curtley Ambrose
Zimbabwe: Andy Flower, Henry Olonga

 

[Adamc]

Australia: Damien Martyn, Jason Gillespie
Bangladesh: Habibul Bashar, Mohammad Rafique
England: Michael Vaughan, Devon Malcolm
India: Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble
New Zealand: Stephen Fleming, Shane Bond
Pakistan: Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mushtaq Ahmed
South Africa: Gary Kirsten, Allan Donald
Sri Lanka: Aravinda de Silva, Muttiah Muralitharan
West Indies: Brian Lara, Curtley Ambrose
Zimbabwe: Andy Flower, Henry Olonga

Interesting, twelve players in common in our lists.

 

[Pothas]

current players
Australia: Gilchrist and Warne
India: Tendulkar and Harbajan
England: Trescothick and Udal
Pakistan: Youhanna and Mushtaq
West Indies: Lara and none are worthy
New Zealand: Mcullum and Vetorri
Sri Lanka: Sangakara and Vass
South Africa: De Villiers and Ntini
Zimbabwe: Ervine and Ervine
Bangladesh: Ashrafall and Rafique

 

[Dasa]

Interesting, twelve players in common in our lists.

So there is...great minds think alike, eh?
Although I differ in my favourite player overall, going for that other all-time great, SRT.

 

[Adamc]

So there is...great minds think alike, eh?
Although I differ in my favourite player overall, going for that other all-time great, SRT.

Great minds think alike, fools never differ, something like that.

 

[Chubb]

Australia- Katich, don't like any other Australian test cricketers.
New Zealand- Fleming, Vettori & Bond
West Indies- Donovan Pagon (Bring him back!), Dwayne Bravo
Bangladesh- Javed Omar, Mortaza
England- Strauss, soon to be Cook, Harmison
South Africa- Smith, Nel

Zimbabwe (special category) Former- Flower and Price, obviously
Current- Everybody- they need support!

 

[Langeveldt]

Present Players

Australia - D.Martyn and S.Warne
Bangladesh - Javed Omar and Don't care
England - Michael Vaughan and Steve Harmison
India - Rahul Dravid and Harbhajan Singh
New Zealand - Michael Papps and Daniel Vettori
Pakistan - Imran Farhat and Mushtaq Ahmed
South Africa - Boeta Dippenaar and Andre Nel
Sri Lanka - Marvan Attapattu and Chaminda Vaas
West Indies - Daren Ganga and Fidel Edwards
Zimbabwe - Brendon Taylor and Ed Rainsford

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

These are a mixture of the ones I rate the highest and enjoy watching the most, and players I just generally like for some unknown reason. Enjoying watching someone and finding someone aesthetically appealing aren't necessarily the same thing for me, as I quite enjoy watching ugly players if they are amazingly good. It's about 50/50 there as well.

Two lists.

Right now
Australia: Ricky Ponting, Glenn McGrath (VERY slightly ahead of Warne)
Bangladesh: Shahriar Nafees, Mushrafe Mortaza
England: Michael Vaughan, Andrew Flintoff
India: Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble
New Zealand: Hamish Marshall, Shane Bond
Pakistan: Asim Kamal, Shoaib Akhtar
South Africa: Jacques Kallis, Makhaya Ntini
Sri Lanka: Kumar Sangakkara, Muttiah Muralitharan
West Indies: Brian Lara, Pedro Collins
Zimbabwe: Taibu... and no idea.

My time watching cricket
Australia: Taylor/Steve Waugh, Warne
Bangladesh - Shahriar Nafees, Mushrafe Mortaza
England: Graham Thorpe, Andrew Flintoff
India: Rahul Dravid, Javagal Srinath
New Zealand: Mark Richardson, Shane Bond
Pakistan: Inzamam-Ul-Haq, Wasim Akram
South Africa: Gary Kirsten, Allan Donald
Sri Lanka: Aravinda De Silva, Muttiah Muratlitharan
West Indies: Brian Lara, Curtley Ambrose
Zimbabwe: Andrew Flower, Heath Streak

 

[PY]

My time watching cricket
Australia: Taylor/Steve Waugh, Warne
Bangladesh - Shahriar Nafees, Mushrafe Mortaza
England: Graham Thorpe, Andrew Flintoff
India: Rahul Dravid, Javagal Srinath
New Zealand: Mark Richardson, Shane Bond
Pakistan: Inzamam-Ul-Haq, Wasim Akram
South Africa: Gary Kirsten, Allan Donald
Sri Lanka: Aravinda De Silva, Muttiah Muratlitharan
West Indies: Brian Lara, Curtley Ambrose
Zimbabwe: Andrew Flower, Heath Streak

Some big lads in there isn't there?

 

[The Baconator]

Changed a lot since I did this over a year ago.

Australia: Hussey, Tait
Bangladesh: Khaled Mashud, Mortaza
England: Bell, Giles
India: Sehwag, Harbhajan
New Zealand: H Marshall, Vettori
Pakistan: Inzy, Mushtaq Ahmed
South Africa: Gibbs, Ntini
Sri Lanka: Sangakkara, Vaas
West Indies: Chanderpaul, Collymore
Zimbabwe: Flower, Streak

 

[steds]

Not alot changed for me

Australia: Martyn and Warne
Bangladesh: Habibul Bashar and ...have any of them learned to bowl since 15 months ago?
England: Flintoff and Anderson(go Lancashire!...still)
India: SS Das and Harbhajan
New Zealand: McMillan and Vettori
Pakistan: Salman Butt and Kaneria
South Africa: Rudolph and Nel (what a guy. I love seeing him get excited)
Sri Lanka: Sangakarra and Murali (how did I forget him first time around?)
West Indies: Sarwan and DAVE MOHAMMED!
Zimbabwe: ...still don't count

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Australia: Martyn/Katich - equal, Kasprowicz - the only Aussie bowler I can tolerate.
Bangladesh: no one.
England: Collingwood, Flintoff.
India: Dravid, no one.
New Zealand: Hamish Marshall, Vettori.
Pakistan: Youhana, Wasim/Saqlain - equal.
South Africa: Kirsten/AB de Villiers, Pollock.
Sri Lanka: none.
West Indies: Lara/Devon Smith, Bravo.
Zimbabwe: Andy Flower, Price.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

England: Bell, Giles

Warwickshire bias!

 

[steds]

Warwickshire bias!

Yes! Disgraceful! Off with his head....