World's bests

South Africa: Graeme Pollock
India: Sunil Gavaskar
West Indies: Garfield Sobers
Australia: Shane Warne
New Zealand: Richard Hadlee
Pakistan: Imran Khan
Sri Lanka: Muttiah Muralitharan
Zimbabwe: Andy Flower

I'm afraid I am stuck on England! Botham is probably the best player in my lifetime but I have my doubts that he'd be the greatest English player ever, but not having seen the likes of WG Grace, Jack Hobbs, Wally Hammond, Harold Larwood, Dennis Compton and Fred Trueman I would struggle to make a particularly strong case for one in particular.

South Africa: Graeme pollock
India: Sachin Tendulkar
West Indies: Brian Lara
Australia: Ricky Ponting
New Zealand: Richard Hadlee

Australia: Sir Donald Bradman

heres a team for the fastest bowlers

I'm pretty sure Courtly Ambrose didn't play for South Africa.

Edited by bond2322 - 08 May 2007 at 11:52am

Originally posted by bond2322 I'm pretty sure Courtly Ambrose didn't play for South Africa.

Edited by sammythola7 - 28 May 2007 at 11:53am

Andrew Cadd!ck???????

And Murali is the greatest from the Lankans as well.

McGrath isn't the greatest Australian cricketer, neither is Cairns the greatest New Zealander cricketer. He's gone mad!

Australia: Sir Donald Bradman

Flintoff?????

Originally posted by bondy [P]Flintoff?????[/P]

yes i do think flintoff deserves a spot in there. He's easily been england's best player in the last 5 years or so. He was the main reason for england winning the 2005 ashes. For me, flintoff and botham are the 2 best English cricketers ever.

So you need some justification,huh. Ok.

Lets start with Sri Lanka: Think there's no doubt of Murali being there. As of de Silva I think Jayasurya is better than him as he can terrorize the opponent both with his bat as well as his bowling. He's one of the most feared players in the world. Dont think the same could be said for de Silva. Yes, he's a good player too but I think Jayasurya's better.

Next comes West Indies: I think the West Indies have produced too many great players over the years.  So, if you want to include Malcolm Marshall including other guys like Michael Holding or Courtney Walsh or Brian Lara or Gordon Grennidge also becomes a point. You cannot include all of them so I've included Sir Vivian Richards and Sir Garfield Sobers. Don't think there should be any problems with that.

South Africa: I thought about including Graeme Pollock but then chose Donald And Shaun Pollock above him mainly because I don't think he has played enough International Cricket. Yes Graeme has an avg. of more  than 60 but still it has only come in 23 tests. What Shaun and Donald have achieved has come in a vast span of time playing as many as 9 different countries home and away. May be if South Africa hadn't suffered the ban and Graeme would have played a few more tests he could have been in there.

Pakistan: Imran Khan has to be there for his contributions  to Pakistani cricket. He has probably been their greatest allrounder. For Wasim Akram I can only say that he has been one of my favourite bowlers. More than 900 international wickets is quite a record. Miandad could have been in there but only if I had chosen three players from each side.

NZ: I've chosen Fleming ahead of guys like Cairns and Crowe because of his leadership. He has probably been one of the greatest captains ever, a true leader.

Australia: Warne or Mcgrath think that is the question, right? Because you cannot doubt the Great Sir Donald Bradman being there. If thats the case my preference would be Mcgrath. I think most would chose otherwise but for me Mcgrath would be just that little ahead of Warne. After all his bowling averages are better than Warne in both forms of the game.

England: I've never seen guys like Hobbs, Hutton or Larwood bat or bowl thats why I did not pick any of them. You may question than why's Bradman in there. The reason is you do not have to see him bat its all their in his batting avg.

In the end I'd say that the players I chose were my preferences. Would love to see your team also.