Top 10 Greatest Test Crickters Of All Time

[honestbharani]

Yeah Sunny G to open

 

[Red]

Sunny Gavaskar
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George Headley
Brian Lara
Allan Border
Andy Flower +
Shakib Al Hasan
Richard Hadlee
-
-
Murali

 

[Adders]

I'd stick a * next to AB's name before Burgey finds this thread RH

 

[Red]

He'll probably want him batting at #4 ahead of Lara as well.

 

[vcs]

Sachin was head and shoulders above the rest for most of the late '90s, especially away from the subcontinent. I remember the SA and Aus tours in particular. It was basically ATG bowling lineups trying to get him out, and win the game.

 

[Slifer]

If memory serves me correctly srt had azhuardhin, kambli, sidhu and then later ganguly, laxman, Dravid, sehwag, gambhir. Best batsman in the team but didnt carry it to the extent as others.

 

[vcs]

Yeah, not arguing that he had better support in general over the course of his career compared to Lara etc., especially in the latter years, which helped him prolong his career.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Kambli and Sidhu weren't exactly great tbh. Probably doesn't fit the thread, but he most definitely carried a rather brittle lineup for most of the 90s.

 

[Rootfan]

1)Bradman D
2)Barnes S
3)Sobers G
4)Miller K
5)GIlchrist A
6)McGrath G
7)Warne S
8)Hadlee R
9)Tendulkar S
10)Steyn D

In that order

 

[Burgey]

He'll probably want him batting at #4 ahead of Lara as well.

Of course. I was just about to post that. Lara at five icing the Openers-Headley-OTAB cake would be incredible.

 

[kingkallis]

Sunil Gavaskar
David Warner
George Headley
Brian Lara
Allan Border (c)
Andy Flower +
Shakib Al Hasan
Richard Hadlee
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-
Muralitharan

 

[listento_me]

If memory serves me correctly srt had azhuardhin, kambli, sidhu and then later ganguly, laxman, Dravid, sehwag, gambhir. Best batsman in the team but didnt carry it to the extent as others.

It's a bit of a myth that "Sachin carried India", he didn't. Especially not to the extent Lara did.

 

[AndrewB]

Had Kapil and the spin quartet. Carried the batting though.

Also holds the record for most opening batting partners throughout his career. Makes England's Wheel look tame.

Kapil surely merits a place for carrying India's pace attack.

You could make a case for Hutton, at least in away Tests - averaged 88 in Australia in 1950-1 (next best Simpson on 38), and 96 in WI in 1953-4 (next best Compton on 49).

 

[Tromperie]

Had Kapil and the spin quartet. Carried the batting though.

Also holds the record for most opening batting partners throughout his career. Makes England's Wheel look tame.

The Gavaskar/Chauhan partnership must surely win the award for "Worst partner in a ATG batting openers' duo". The latter never even scored one century for goodness sake.

 

[indiaholic]

It's a bit of a myth that "Sachin carried India", he didn't. Especially not to the extent Lara did.

Not a complete myth but yeah nowhere near Lara.. Remember reading a comparison somewhere that Tendulkar scored something like 16.5% of the team's runs while Lara was 19.5%. Huge difference imo.

 

[DriveClub]

What about miandad? Did pak have good batsmen then? Remember zaheer abbas

 

[mr_mister]

Fazal Mahmood
Vijay Hazare

 

[stephen]

Bradman a good shout for carrying am obviously inferior team. At least by relative standards. I mean the best players he played with barely averaged half of what he did.

 

[listento_me]

Who would be the highest ranking Englishman (I genuinely mean that term, so no KP) in an atg list?

for my money, it's Botham.

 

[listento_me]

Bradman a good shout for carrying am obviously inferior team. At least by relative standards. I mean the best players he played with barely averaged half of what he did.

lol come on now