Which are your favourite top 5 cricketer?

kateriyan

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Hi Guys,
Which are your favourite top 5 cricketer? below are my favourite cricketer
1) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Brian Lara
3) Adam Gilichrist
4) Javed Miadad
5) Shane Warne [/FONT]

thorpe

(1) Jacque kallis
(2) Graham Thorpe
(3) Glenn MacGrath
(4) Adam Gilchrist
(Joint 5) Shaun Pollock & Allan Donald (I can't seperate these two)

TheDrog

1. Gough
2. Trescothick
3. Vettori
4. Kumble
5. Waqar Younis

dfx-

1. Ambrose
2. Thorpe
3. Kallis
4. Steve Waugh
5. Ntini

...probably

Rjd2

1 Tendulkar
2 Vettori
3 AB De Villiers
4 Sehwag
5 Warne

Dasbo

1. Steve Waugh - mental toughness and great captain
2. Sachin Tendulkar - the lad is a machine
=3. Glen McGrath - his control was amazing, nice lad too
=3. Shane Warne - quite possibly the best bowler of all time
4. Marcus Trescothick - dominating batsman, partic in the second half of his career
5. Jaques Kallis - his records speak for themself

d'Oracle

1) Sachin.
2) Eoin Morgan
3) Sachin
4) Sachin
5) Dan Vettori, cos I was told I look like him in a pub in Karamea.

The next 5 would all be Sachin too.

Cremated

1. Yuvraj Singh,

2. Shoaib Akhtar,

3. Sachin Tendulkar,

4. Hansie Cronje, ( been reading about him lately and there is no doubting how good his Cricket skills were ),

5. Trent Johnston I love his attitude then it was a close call between him and Jaques Kallis...

rednik

Ian Botham
Shane Warne
Malcolm Marshall (RIP)
Alan Border
Dennis Lillee

overthebridge

Very hard to pick a top 5 !

1. Warne
2. Walsh
3. Steve Waugh
4. Brian Lara
5. Wasim Akram

kryogen

the lack of Ricky Ponting here is troubleing

1.Ricky Ponting
2.Shane Warne
3.Glenn McGrath
4.Wasim Akram
5.Brian Lara




Close would be Tendulkar

Rjd2

kryogen wrote: »

the lack of Ricky Ponting here is troubleing

It may be something to do with the fact he is a bit of a tool. :pac:

Dasbo

Rjd2 wrote: »

It may be something to do with the fact he is a bit of a tool. :pac:

I agree. Without doubt one of the best batsmen of all time...but his attitude is crap.

kryogen

Rjd2 wrote: »

It may be something to do with the fact he is a bit of a tool. :pac:

i disagree

randomer

Dasbo wrote: »

I agree. Without doubt one of the best batsmen of all time...but his attitude is crap.

Can you explain this one for me? I was of the opinion that Ponting was actually a top bloke?

Beasty

Geoff Boycott
Ian Botham
Darren Gough
Chris Old
David Bairstow (RIP)

Andrew Flintoff and Phil Neville were discounted as they are from Lancashire - Botham only just scrapes in ahead of Brian Close, despite being from Cheshire

Dasbo

http://cricket.rediff.com/report/2009/dec/27/ponting-emerges-worst-behaved-australian-player-in-last-20-years.htm

Enough said.

d'Oracle

He is a grumpy bugger, very hard to like.

I'm changing Mine:

1) Sreesanth
2) Brendan McCallum
3) Ponto
4) Shoahib Akhtar
5) Harbhajan Singh

ASTRACLUB

1) Sachin Tendulkar -
2) The Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar
3) Sachin -If Cricket is a religion, Sachin is the God
4) Sachin
5) Sachin

Beasty

Sachin is without doubt one of my favourite non-English players (he did play for Yorkshire, after all)

My other favourite "overseas" player would have to be Viv Richards - way ahead of all other batsmen during his (very long) "era"

Of the bowlers, the Big Bird, Joel Garner was something special, and different from all the other "fast" bowlers

(I consider Australians to be the overseas equivalent of Lancastrians, and therefore by definaition cannot be considered as "favourites" in my eyes:))

kryogen

Dasbo wrote: »

http://cricket.rediff.com/report/2009/dec/27/ponting-emerges-worst-behaved-australian-player-in-last-20-years.htm

Enough said.

lol, yep that proves your point inquestionably

Cremated

d'Oracle wrote: »

He is a grumpy bugger, very hard to like.

I'm changing Mine:

1) Sreesanth
2) Brendan McCallum
3) Ponto
4) Shoahib Akhtar
5) Harbhajan Singh

Good to see someone else go for Shoaib Akhtar ...

Beasty

If I was forced to go against my principles, and choose an Aussie it would probably be Adam Gilchrist, and my token Lancastrian would be Michael Vaughan:)

Mysterypunter

Current Players. Chris Gayle, Virendar Sehwag, Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, Shane Warne. Former Players, Desmond Haynes, Mark Alleyne, Saeed Anwar, David Lawrence, Vincent Kervick.

kryogen

Mysterypunter wrote: »

Current Players. Chris Gayle, Virendar Sehwag, Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, Shane Warne. Former Players, Desmond Haynes, Mark Alleyne, Saeed Anwar, David Lawrence, Vincent Kervick.

good to see a bit of Chris Gayle love though!

Mysterypunter

Still Plays IPL. And if Hauritz did not progress he may have been recalled to Aussie squad, if they lost to Windies or Pakistan. He is still the best spinner in the world, dont even suggest chucker Murali who takes 9-50 against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, and 2-150 vs Aus and India.

kryogen

Mysterypunter wrote: »

Still Plays IPL. And if Hauritz did not progress he may have been recalled to Aussie squad, if they lost to Windies or Pakistan. He is still the best spinner in the world, dont even suggest chucker Murali who takes 9-50 against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, and 2-150 vs Aus and India.

wow chill man

im shane warne's biggest fan!!

no way he is ever coming back to the international scene though man, i have never been overly hot on Murili, i think i would take plenty of wickets v Bangladesh! he is a top spinner mind, Warne is always gonna be the king though

d'Oracle

kryogen wrote: »

wow chill man

+1.

Spirit of cricket and all.

dfx-

Slightly surprised that Ambrose and/or Walsh don't feature more. 924 wickets between them in the 90s. As much as you can have Lara, Adams, Gayle, Chanderpaul, if you don't get 20 wickets, you'll faulter. Absolutely frightening particularly Ambrose..

One of my earliest cricket memories:

M Atherton c somebody b Ambrose - 17 times :pac:

SwdDub

1) Warne
2) Gilchrist
3) Fraser
4) McCallan
5) Vettori

All this talk of Ponting being a tool is nonsense. I've run into the man a few times watching cricket around the world (just happend to be in the same hotel as the Australian team on a few occasions) and regardless of the continent or the circumstance he was always friendly and polite and more than willing to have a chinwag.
He might cut a moany figure out in the middle sometimes but the pressure he is under and the stick he has taken since he got the job probably adds to that.

If you want to file a fabulous cricketer under 'tool' then stick in Yuvraj Singh. By far and away the biggest dickhead I've ever had the misfortune to meet. Arrogant and concieted beyond belief

Gordon Gecko

1. Kumar Sangakarra
2. Wasim Akram
3. Mark Boucher
4. Shane Warne
5. Aravinda de Silva

d'Oracle

Just realised that I havent actually given a straight answer in this thread.

1) Sachin Tendulker
2) Dan Vettori.
3) Chris Gayle
4) Eoin Morgan
5) Fidel Edwards

dom17

randomer wrote: »

Can you explain this one for me? I was of the opinion that Ponting was actually a top bloke?

i think i can its called tall poppy syndrome

boksmashoffice

My top 5 are
1. Bradman (99 average ) need i say more
2. Graeme Pollock (SA legend 60 ave) short career due to sports boycott
3. Sachin Tendulkar (a dream to watch when in full flow + nice person)
4. Shane Warne (Great Bowler)
5. Muttiah Muralitharan (most wickets in test history)

There are loads of great players who i am sure could be argued should be on this list.

boksmashoffice

d'Oracle wrote: »

He is a grumpy bugger, very hard to like.

I'm changing Mine:

1) Sreesanth
2) Brendan McCallum
3) Ponto
4) Shoahib Akhtar
5) Harbhajan Singh

judging by this you are an India fan. Harbejan is a racist and Akhtar was speed but not real control (what was his test average?)
kumble i would argue for

d'Oracle

boksmashoffice wrote: »

judging by this you are an India fan. Harbejan is a racist and Akhtar was speed but not real control (what was his test average?)
kumble i would argue for

You don't really get the whole sarcasm thing do you?

Also, thats a very poor judgement to make.

dentaku2

1. brad spanner
2. peter blakeney
3. simon morrissey
4. john blakeney
5. darragh "two shakes" o'dunoghue

TrueDub

dentaku2 wrote: »

1. brad spanner
2. peter blakeney
3. simon morrissey
4. john blakeney
5. darragh "two shakes" o'dunoghue

I'm guessing you're a Pembroke member, right? :D

dentaku2

TrueDub wrote: »

I'm guessing you're a Pembroke member, right? :D

Absolutely not!! Try a little closer to Donnybrook :cool:

TrueDub

Ah, right, YMCA then?

dentaku2

I think you know you're wrong!

TrueDub

dentaku2 wrote: »

I think you know you're wrong!

Go 'way, really? :D

Dasbo

dentaku2 wrote: »

I think you know you're wrong!

A Railway man if ever there was one...

dentaku2

Really! and I thought I'd end it there before you listed every other club on the southside...
...but dasbo had other ideas!!

Anyway, i think we're off-topic here lads...so where's your top 5 truedub???

TrueDub

dentaku2 wrote: »

Really! and I thought I'd end it there before you listed every other club on the southside...
...but dasbo had other ideas!!

Anyway, i think we're off-topic here lads...so where's your top 5 truedub???

Fair point, I haven't contributed so far. Rather than favourites, I'm going to list the top 5 I've seen in the flesh, so they're ones I enjoyed watching. It's in no particular order:

1) Kyle McCallan - his action has always been a joy to watch, and he was no slouch with the bat either

2) Mkaya Ntini (too lazy to check spelling) - a great bowler in his day, and provided constant encouragement to his team-mates

3) Shane Warne - saw him in 1999 in Old Trafford, genius cricketer

4) Ed Joyce - great batsman, another joy to watch when he's in full flow

5) Dave Langford-Smith - scariest bowler I've ever faced (in the nets), nicest guy off the field

d'Oracle

Lot of joy from watching cricket there.

I like it.

dom17

TrueDub wrote: »

5) Dave Langford-Smith - scariest bowler I've ever faced (in the nets), nicest guy off the field

gee imagine if you faced someone who was quick