Ah, but if you're just here to further his aims then I'll have to ban you too...

Do u by any chance know that ,, sachin had suffered Tennis elbow for this year -2005 , still he is averaging about healthy 46.16.

okies ,,at least when sachin was not there ,Inzi could have taken the mantle of Best batsman ,,, but poor Inzi ,,, Mike Hussey stole his Limelight.

Sorry boss ,,Inzi will not have a single year at the top in his carrier.

Pls visit my anathor topic Best Batsman -2005

http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=484&am p;PN=1

Originally posted by saadadvanced7 I am right, not must be right. Is there any batsman who is performing as well as Inzamam right now. The only one I can think of Hayden.

Hi Saad ,, to sad to say this

my votes for Hussey ,, 19 matches this year in ODI and averaging about 123 runs is very very good by any stds .. So he is not only best batsman for Aussies but he is currently best ODI batsman in World.

Even in tests he is avraging about 120 in 3 tests which is also the best test average this year , I mean Year 2005.

Atleast for the Year 2005 the best batsman award for both Tests and ODI should go to "Mike Hussey".

While Inzi has about 80 in tests and 50 in ODI's.

Even dhoni has about 49 in ODI's and there are quite a few who average about 50 this year.

So there are lot of people performing like Inzi . Sorry no credits for Inzi ,, coz Hussey has robbed the limelight this Year.  

I truly believe that Sachin Tedulkar is a very good and talented batsmen. The stats speak for himself. BUT in the modern era it's between Kallis,lara and Inzamam. And i have the stats to prove it:

TEST BATTING RANKINGS TOP 10

1 Jacques Kallis (SA) 894
2 Brian Lara (WI) 874
3 Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak) 870
3 Ricky Ponting (Aus) 870
5 Rahul Dravid (Ind) 851
6 Matthew Hayden (Aus) 843
7 Virender Sehwag (Ind) 835
8 Marcus Trescothick (Eng) 768
9 Mohammad Yousuf (Pak) 736
10 Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) 735

From WWW.BBC.CO.UK/CRICKET

So it looks like Sachin is on his way out of the top 10.

Originally posted by saadadvanced7 No way graeme smith. The best batter ever is Donald Bradman, and the best batter today is obviously Inzamam, he has proved that. He averaged an extraordinary 107 in the England/Pakistan test series that just passed.

I feel sad when people consider just a series or a particular year to label someone as Best batsman,,,

yes Inzi is performing very well recently .... .

and as of today INZI is undoubtedly the best batsman but it is just recently.

Sorry ,, Hayden had an amazing year in 2001/2002 ,,, again in test he is picking up with 4 back to back centuries.

Even our own[expelled] Ajay jadeja had 150+ avg in series and in next series that just followed ,, he hit 300 odd runs without getting out ...

These petty once in a while performance doesnt make LEGENDS.

you can call someone like Hanif Mohammed a Legend [in fact he is a living legend] ,, see his record and overall performance ..

So how many times I have to re-iterate the same thing ,,, Pls pls pls ,,, before labeling someone as the "Best batter"  see the record over considerable amount of time ... Greats are considered if they consistently perform for more than a DECADE or two ,, else only the  country to which the player belongs will remeber him ,, and not the entire cricketing faternity.