Who would be your top 10 greatest Asian cricketers?

[Avada Kedavra]

Mine would be in order

1)Murali - statistically the best,record holder for most wickets in tests and ODIs @ a very good average.
2)Sachin/Imran Khan - former holds most major batting records + most test wins for an Asian,latter is a WC winning captain + Asia's best all-rounder
4)Kapil Dev-WC winning captain and most successful Asian fast bowler in terms of wickets
5)Wasim Akram-400+test wickets and 500+ ODI wickets
6)Gavaskar-10k+runs,arguably best Asian batsman
7)Dravid-same as Gavaskar
8)Waqar-350+ test wickets and 400+ODI wickets
9)Jayawardene-closing in on 10k test runs
10)Kumble-600+test wickets and 300+ODI wickets

Notable omissions - Aravinda,Sangakkara,Sehwag,Fazal Mahmood,Abdul Qadir,Jayasuriya and more..............

 

[akilana]

In terms of talent, it's hard to separate Sachin, Imran, Murali and Akram.

 

[Fusion]

Imran
Tendulkar
Murali
Akram
Gavaskar
Dev
Miandad
Waqar
Dravid
Aravinda

IMHO. Incidentally, Battle of the Subcontinent

 

[kingkallis]

I wanted to include Mohammad brothers, Zaheer Abbas but didnt see them in action so couldnt add them...

I also wanted to have Aravinda de Silva, Azharuddin, Ranatunga, Abdul Qadir but...so well these are my 10!

Sachin Tendulkar
Muralitharan
Imran Khan
Kapil Dev
Wasim Akram
Javed Miandad
Sunil Gavaskar
Anil Kumble
Waqar Younis
Rahul Dravid

 

[zaremba]

Imran Khan
Javed Miandad
Mushtaq Ahmed
Ranjitsinhji
Duleepsinhji
Nawab of Pataudi
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
Yasir Arafat
Mohammad Sami
Gehan Mendis

Saqlain and Chawla disqualified, obv

 

[fredfertang]

Farokh Engineer plus any 9 others

 

[Goughy]

Mine would be in order.

You start a thread and chicken out of doing it yourself.

So who is your number 2? Imran or Sachin?

 

[Burgey]

Farokh Engineer plus any 9 others

Yeah, was gonnna say, he'd have to be there, surely. Imran, Kapil, Miandad, Tendulkar, Wasim, Dravid all good shouts. Murali of course.

Shall try to compile a list which allows me to leave Gavaskar out tbh. Not a fan, great player though.

 

[Burgey]

Richard Chee Quee being harshly treated too.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Shall try to compile a list which allows me to leave Gavaskar out tbh. Not a fan, great player though.

It's bizarre. He seems reasonable and considered in the comm box, but every so often writes or is quoted as having said something unbelieveably twatty.

Will throw Lord Jardine of Mumbai's hat into the ring too.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah, worth a shout.

Should also be said, FIFA says Australia is part of Asia.

Keith Miller, Don Bradman worth a shout

 

[The Sean]

Going to go with blokes who actually represented one of the Asian nations - so no Ranji, Jardine etc.

1. Imran Khan
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Muttiah Muralitharan
4. Sunil Gavaskar
5. Wasim Akram
6. Kapil Dev
7. Waqar Younis
8. Javed Miandad
9. Rahul Dravid
10. Vijay Merchant

A veritable plethora of genuinely great cricketers all there or thereabouts and unlucky to miss out.

 

[Jono]

Richard Chee Quee being harshly treated too.

Was gonna be my post

 

[Noble One]

Richard Chee Quee being harshly treated too.

A more interesting challenge would be to name the top 10 cricketers of an Asian background who don't play for an Asian team.

Chee Quee surely number 1.

 

[The Sean]

A more interesting challenge would be to name the top 10 cricketers of an Asian background who don't play for an Asian team.

Chee Quee surely number 1.

Ever?

 

[Noble One]

Ever?

Ever, however make sure Saj Mahmood does not make the list.

 

[Migara]

When Test and ODIs combined

Imran Khan
Muralidaran
Sachin Tendulkar
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younus
Javed Miandad
Aravinda de Silva
Kapil Dev
Inzamam ul Haq
Kumar Sangakkara

Tough on Dravid, Gavaskar, Jayawardane - but they are n where close to above as ODI batsmen. Kumar is in because he's the best wicket keeper batsman Asia has ever seen and is peerless among Asians. And Azhar ud din just missed the 10.

 

[Xuhaib]

Imran
Sachin
Murali
Kapil
Sunny
Wasim
Dravid
Miandad
Waqar
Arvinda

 

[robbinhood]

My top ten Asian cricketers
1 . Mansur Ali Khan Patodi
2 Sachin Tendulkar
3Kapil Dev
4.Wasim Akram
5. Sunil Gavaskar
6. Rahul Dravid
7.Waqar
8.Jayawardene
9.Kumble
10.Murali

 

[Zinzan]

Off the top of my head & in order ......

Imran
Murali
Tendulkar
Wasim
Dev
Gavaskar
Miandad
Waqar
Dravid
Aravinda

Notable mentions: , Z. Abbas, Inzamam, Jayawardene, Bedi, Kumble, V Merchant, Sehwag

Quite amazing that for an All-time Asian top 10, most people, including myself only included the 1 spinner in Murali (albeit a couple having Kumble as well)