5 Top cricketers in each country's history. Test and ODI's.

[Anil]

w.i

sobers
lara
viv
marshall
ambrose

india

tendulkar
gavaskar
kapil
dravid
kumble

n.z

turner
hadlee
m crowe
c cairns
sutcliffe

australia

bradman
g.s chappell
lillee
mcgrath
warne

england

hobbs
botham
hammond
knott
trueman

s.l

a de silva
ranatunga
jayasuriya
vaas
murali

pakistan

miandad
imran
akram
waqar
inzi

s.a

b richards
g pollock
donald
procter
kallis

 

[Zinzan]

w.i

sobers
lara
viv
marshall
ambrose

india

tendulkar
gavaskar
kapil
dravid
kumble

n.z

turner
hadlee
m crowe
c cairns
sutcliffe

australia

bradman
g.s chappell
lillee
mcgrath
warne

england

hobbs
botham
hammond
knott
trueman

s.l

a de silva
ranatunga
jayasuriya
vaas
murali

pakistan

miandad
imran
akram
waqar
inzi

s.a

b richards
g pollock
donald
procter
kallis

Is this just test cricket?? Allan Knott one of Englands top 5 in history....Big Call.

 

[Shoaib]

PAKISTAN.....

TEST
Imran Khan
Javed Miandad
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Inzamam-ul-haq

ODI
Imran Khan
Javed Miandad
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Saeed Anwar

Asian Bradman Zaheer Abbas should've be there in that test list instead of Waqar.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Asian Bradman Zaheer Abbas should've be there in that test list instead of Waqar.

Asian Bradman?

 

[Anil]

Asian Bradman Zaheer Abbas should've be there in that test list instead of Waqar.

asian bradman..??? hardly...!!!

 

[Anil]

Is this just test cricket?? Allan Knott one of Englands top 5 in history....Big Call.

well...he was a true legend of the game and one of the greatest 'keepers ever, in any case it is my list, you are welcome to disagree...

 

[Shoaib]

Its really a pity that you guys always forget Saleem Malik and Shoaib Mohammad.Both of these men have very impressive test career records.

 

[King_Ponting]

saleem malik the match fixer?

 

[Shoaib]

saleem malik the match fixer?

Yeah, but his record would've been lot better if he were not a match fixer.Personally,I hate him but have to believe that he was a very good player.For him,playing against the spin was as easy as taking a cup of tea.And he has played more than a 100 tests with an average of around 44 despite involved in match fixing.

 

[tooextracool]

ENGLAND.....
ODI
Marcus Trescothick
Andrew Flintoff
Graeme Hick
Darren Gough
Allan Lamb

marcus trescothick? come now.
mine would look something like this:
Hick
Knight
Smith
Mullally
Gough

 

[Langeveldt]

Its really a pity that you guys always forget Saleem Malik and Shoaib Mohammad.Both of these men have very impressive test career records.

Yeah, Hansie Cronje wasn't bad against spin either

 

[King_Ponting]

Yeah, Hansie Cronje wasn't bad against spin either

Hahaha i remeber hansie getting out to darren lehmann caught on the boundary off a long hop.....

 

[Pedro Delgado]

Hahaha i remeber hansie getting out to darren lehmann caught on the boundary off a long hop.....

Yeah, no-one would have betted folding money on that happening. Oh, hang on...

 

[Zinzan]

marcus trescothick? come now.
mine would look something like this:
Hick
Knight
Smith
Mullally
Gough

I'll assume you've seen Trescothicks oneday record TEC?? I can't be that far off the mark...Although Knight and Mullally are good calls i'm not so sure about Robin Smith (assuming your not meaning Chris Smith with his strike rate of 45)

 

[tooextracool]

I'll assume you've seen Trescothicks oneday record TEC?? I can't be that far off the mark...Although Knight and Mullally are good calls i'm not so sure about Robin Smith (assuming your not meaning Chris Smith with his strike rate of 45)

trescos average is 37.72, which probably comes down further when you exclude bangladesh. theres no question that hes a decent ODI batsman, but to put him amongst the top 5 english players of all time is just insulting given his inconsistency.
and yes i was referring to robin smith averaging 39 who was quite a player given the era in which he played ODI cricket in. for me it would be a close call between neil fairborther and robin smith, both of whom were fine ODI players.

 

[Zinzan]

trescos average is 37.72, which probably comes down further when you exclude bangladesh. theres no question that hes a decent ODI batsman, but to put him amongst the top 5 english players of all time is just insulting given his inconsistency.
and yes i was referring to robin smith averaging 39 who was quite a player given the era in which he played ODI cricket in. for me it would be a close call between neil fairborther and robin smith, both of whom were fine ODI players.

Its not just trescos healthy oneday avrage of 37 that impressed me, it was his fantastic strike rate of 87 !!

Neil Fairbrother was indeed a very handy and underated oneday player

 

[age_master]

steve waugh for one dayers.... umm dont think so

back in his days as an all rounder

 

[dinu23]

for SL.
test: murali,aravinda,sanath,vaas,arjuna
ODI: same

I could name some players from the 80s like Roy Dias, Sidath Wethamuni, Rumesh rathnayake. but their careers were too short.

 

[tooextracool]

Its not just trescos healthy oneday avrage of 37 that impressed me, it was his fantastic strike rate of 87 !!

yes but his average falls significantly against australia(31), SA(27) and NZ(8).