Source www.timesonline.co.uk - Shane Warne's column
50 Jamie Siddons
49 Darren Berry
48 Brian McMillan
47 Chris Cairns
46 Dilip Vengsarkar
45 Waqar Younis
44 Alec Stewart
43 Michael Atherton
42 Ravi Shastri
41 Justin Langer
40 Kapil Dev
39 Stuart MacGill
38 Sanath Jayasuriya
37 Stephen Harmison
36 Andy Flower
35 Michael Vaughan
34 Bruce Reid
33 Allan Donald
32 Robin Smith
31 Tim May
30 Kevin Pietersen
29 Shoaib Akhtar / Craig McDermott
28 Saeed Anwar / Mohammad Yousuf
27 Jacques Kallis / Shaun Pollock
26 Steve Waugh
25 Darren Lehmann
24 Brett Lee
23 Stephen Fleming
22 Martin Crowe
21 David Boon
20 Adam Gilchrist
19 Aravinda de Silva
18 Merv Hughes
17 Matthew Hayden
16 Andrew Flintoff
15 Graham Gooch
14 Rahul Dravid
13 Anil Kumble
12 Mark Waugh
11 Courtney Walsh
10 Ian Healy
9 Mark Taylor
8 Ricky Ponting
7 Muttiah Muralitharan
6 Wasim Akram
5 Glenn McGrath
4 Allan Border
3 Curtly Ambrose
2 Brian Lara
1 Sachin Tendulka
My Comments:
1. Too many batsmen. Warne seems to be biased towards batsmen.
2. Sachin above Lara? No way. Lara is exceptionally talented player who survived in a team which hasn't been in limelight at all. Yet he excelled along with the responsibility to win matches single handedly.
3. Steve Waugh on 26th? Is he joking?
4. How on earth can you place Akram and Waqar so apart from each other? In my opinion Waqar was a much more lethal bowler than Akram.
5. What the hack are players like Harmison, Stuart MacGill, Lehmann doing in the list? With all due respect to them, they are not greatest 50 material.
6. Alan Donald on 33? Even behind players like Pieterson and Flintoff?
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2 comments:
Common Bhavin...Sachin is the greatest batsman of the world...Even the best "Bradman" has conveyed tht.. He definitely gets higher marks than Lara does.. No doubt about it.. Just read the article on cricinfo regarding why warne has given sachin no.1 .. The reasons he has stated are so true.. let me share one of the reasons : "Outside grounds [in India], people wait until he [Tendulkar] goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer ... He [Tendulkar] grew up under incredible weight of expectation and never buckled once - not under poor umpiring decisions or anything else." : Whenever I went to watch a match in Ahmedabad and when sachin had not come in opening , almost all times I have prayed tht let the wickets fall so tht sachin can come out and I can see him batting .. That was the craze for sachin and he has performed really well for these may years under a tremendous amount of pressure.. Hats off to him ..
Soham
Well okey. May be I should not have generalized. Instead I would say, if I were asked to select one of them, I would select Lara because of his flamboyant and utterly entertaining style of batting.
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