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Top ten greatest bowlers and batsmen of all time
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kyear2
International Coach
Did you do your top tens? Would be very interested to see your selections.
Well why not? He's been the world;s number 1 bowler by far for a good 4 years now, with only Anderson in the last year or so coming anywhere close to his class. Great record in a batting friendly era. His 7-51 at Nagpur was the turning point for me... before that i considered him a good bowler but thought his record was so good mainly due to his pace-friendly home pitches.
I dont necessarily mean to say Steyn is a better bowler than Imran or Hadlee by ranking him higher in my post, but i saw very little of their careers to really grasp their complete awesomeness... shame really
smash84
The Tiger King
tbh Mine change from day to day
....the rankings might change from day to day
Jacknife
International Captain
No Marshall? if you've seen Gavaskar, Imran and Chappell you must have seen Malcolm.Impossible for me to rate cricketers i didnt watch, so ill just restrict it to those cricketers whom ive watched playing or atleast seen plenty of footage of to make a decent judgement
Batsmen:
1. Sachin
2. Lara
3. Viv ... unfortunate that ive seen very little of his batting apart from robelinda's videos.
4. Steve Waugh
5. Dravid
6. Ponting
7. Kallis
8. Martin Crowe
9. Gavaskar
10. G. Chappell
Bowlers:
1. McG
2. Murali
3. Ambrose
4. Steyn
5. Imran
6. Warne
7. Hadlee... need to see a bit more of him tbh
8. Wasim
9. Waqar
10. Donald
Howe_zat
Audio File
Restricting it solely to players I've seen (live or live tv)
Batsmen
1. Tendulkar
2. Lara
3. Ponting
4. Dravid
5. Kallis
6. Sangakkara
7. Laxman
8. Yousuf
9. Pietersen
10. Gilchrist
Bowling
1. McGrath
2. Warne
3. Muralitharan
4. Steyn
5. Kumble
6. Shoaib
7. Pollock
8. Anderson
9. Asif
10. Zaheer
Had to rack my brains a fair bit for that. Bowling a bit threadbare.
Batsmen
1. Tendulkar
2. Lara
3. Ponting
4. Dravid
5. Kallis
6. Sangakkara
7. Laxman
8. Yousuf
9. Pietersen
10. Gilchrist
Bowling
1. McGrath
2. Warne
3. Muralitharan
4. Steyn
5. Kumble
6. Shoaib
7. Pollock
8. Anderson
9. Asif
10. Zaheer
Had to rack my brains a fair bit for that. Bowling a bit threadbare.
Its not really about how long ago the cricketer played... Being Indian, my father followed Indian and Pakistan cricketers pretty closely, so half my childhood was spent watching stuff like Gavaskar's 236 or Imran destroying India in Sharjah... Almost all of the cricket ive watched from before '91 is from my dad's tapes, he had a good amount of Hadlee footage, but precious little marshall for some inexplicable reason... maybe three r four series... one of them was his awful- quality tape of the 1990 series in Pakistan, where Marshall was pretty average..
Marshall was undoubtedly one of the greatest ever, i just havent watched much of him... apart from a few dozen youtube videos.
Vow to watch more of the great man...
Jacknife
International Captain
Its not really about how long ago the cricketer played... Being Indian, my father followed Indian and Pakistan cricketers pretty closely, so half my childhood was spent watching stuff like Gavaskar's 236 or Imran destroying India in Sharjah... Almost all of the cricket ive watched from before '91 is from my dad's tapes, he had a good amount of Hadlee footage, but precious little marshall for some inexplicable reason... maybe three r four series... one of them was his awful- quality tape of the 1990 series in Pakistan, where Marshall was pretty average..
Marshall was undoubtedly one of the greatest ever, i just havent watched much of him... apart from a few dozen youtube videos.
Vow to watch more of the great man...
kingkallis
International Coach
As seen Live or on Live TV
Top 10 batsmen :
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Ricky Ponting
Jacques Kallis
Rahul Dravid
Inzamam ul Haq
Matthew Hayden
Mohammad Yousuf
Kumara Sangakkara
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Top 10 bowlers :
Curtley Ambrose
Dale Steyn ( Bowled extremely well in the batsmen dominant era )
Shane Warne
Glenn McGrath
Muttiah Muralitharan
Allan Donald
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Shaun Pollock
James Anderson
Top 10 batsmen :
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Ricky Ponting
Jacques Kallis
Rahul Dravid
Inzamam ul Haq
Matthew Hayden
Mohammad Yousuf
Kumara Sangakkara
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Top 10 bowlers :
Curtley Ambrose
Dale Steyn ( Bowled extremely well in the batsmen dominant era )
Shane Warne
Glenn McGrath
Muttiah Muralitharan
Allan Donald
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Shaun Pollock
James Anderson
Steyn above McG ?!
kingkallis
International Coach
Yeah, he did not have much support from batsman or bowlers! McG had Warne and Lee with him...I know its a silly logic but again Steyn took ALL of his wickets in batsmen dominating era and does deserve that spot!
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
And Philander!
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1.Steve Glasson.
2.Kelvin Kerkow.
ankitj
Hall of Fame Member
Surely Walsh, Kumble, Bond, Akhtar > Anderson