Monday, July 14, 2008

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

1 comment:

neelesh said...

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)Waqar Younis
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
-Younis Khan
-Kumar Sangakkara
-Mathew Hayden
-Rahul Dravid
-Harbhajan Singh
-Brett Lee
-Dale Steyn
-Virender Sehwag
-Makhaya Ntini