Top 20 Batsmen in Test Cricket : My Views (Rank-Wise)

1. Donald George Bradman
2. George Headley
3. Garfield Sobers
4. Wally Hammond
5. Kenneth Frank Barrington
6. Herbert Sutcliffe
7. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
8. Clyde Walcott
9. Jack Hobbs
10. Brian Charles Lara
11. Everton Weekes
12. Ricky Thomas Ponting
13. Virender Sehwag
14. Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards
15. Matthew Lawrence Hayden
16. Gregory Stephen Chappell
17. Len Hutton
18. Jacques Kallis
19. Sunil Manohar Gavaskar
20. Mohammad Yousuf

Some other Batsmen who had been great enough, but couldn't be deemed to be in the final list, need mentioning; they are:-

1. Geoffrey Boycott
2. Neil Harvey
3. Steve Waugh
4. Rahul Sharad Dravid
5. Graeme Smith
6. Allan Border

Other good performers:-

1. Clive Lloyd
2. Inzamam-ul-Haq
3. Graeme Pollock
4. Gordon Greenidge
5. Mohammad Azharuddin
6. Justin Langer

GODS of CRICKET

Though many crikceters have excelled through past 150 years since the origin of records and statistics in international cricket, but there are a few who reached a zenith in their career, and moreover, took the game to new definitions and horizons. And even bigger a stature is gained by very rare of them, who arguably can be claimed to be the gods of the game.

Here are the men whom I could distinguish after going thoroughly through the stats of cricket played over the past one and a half century, who displayed uncommon greatness in their cricketing careers.(PS: Only Test Cricket Players)

1)Donald Bradman
2)Jack Hobbs
3)Vivian Richards
4)Sydney Barnes
5)George Lohmann
6)Garfield Sobers
7)Herbert Sutcliffe
8)Wasim Akram
9)Sachin Tendulkar
10)Muttiah Muralitharan
11)Shane Warne
12)Glenn Mcgrath
13)Adam Gilchrist
14)Waqar Younis
15)Ian Bothom
16)Imran Khan
17)Jacques Kallis
18)Brian Lara
19)Curtley Ambrose
20)Malcomm Marshall
21)Joel Garner
22)Richard Hadlee
23)Steve Waugh
24)Sunil Gavaskar
25)Allan Border
26)Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj
27)Everton Weekes
28)Shaun Pollock
29)Ricky Ponting


Few men who based on their careers thus far seem to be very promising to join this list in near future are:

-Michael Hussey
-Kevin Pieterson
-Mahela Jayawardena
-Graeme Smith
-Mohammad Yousuf
-Kumar Sangakkara
-Mathew Hayden
-Rahul Dravid
-Harbhajan Singh
-Brett Lee
-Dale Steyn
-Virender Sehwag
-Makhaya Ntini