4:47 AM on Mar. 19, 2009
Last year cricket legend shane warne disclosed his top 100 Test cricketers in a new book called Shane Warne's Century. Following is the list (with my take) he made to rank cricketers of his era:
TOP-50
- sachin tendulkar agree
- Brian Lara agree
- Curtly Ambrose I'd have swapped Ambrose with Akram coz Akram is an awesome bowler and a good batsman too
- Allan Border
- Glenn McGrath
- Wasim Akram I'd have swapped Ambrose with Akram
- muttiah muralitharan I'd have swapped Murali with Ponting
- Ricky Ponting I'd have swapped Murali with Ponting coz Ponting does a good job as a captain and a fielder (284 catches) too
- Mark Waugh
- Ian Healy I'd have swapped Healy with Gooch
- Courtney Walsh
- Mark Taylor
- anil kumble
- Graham Gooch I'd have swapped Healy with Gooch
- Matthew Hayden
- Adam Gilchrist
- Jacques Kallis
- Merv Hughes
- Aravinda de Silva I'd have swapped DeSilva with Jayasuriya coz he is a good bowler too
- Rahul Dravid
- David Boon
- Martin Crowe
- Kumar Sangakkara
- brett lee I'd have swapped Kapil with Brett Lee coz of his overall contribution
- Andy Flower
- Steve Waugh
- Jason Gillespie
- Shaun Pollock
- Saeed Anwar
- andrew flintoff
- Waqar Younis
- Darren Lehmann I'd have swapped Lehmann with Sehwag
- kevin pietersen
- shoaib akhtar
- virender sehwag I'd have swapped Lehmann with Sehwag
- Allan Donald
- Bruce Reid
- Michael Clarke
- Michael Slater
- Stephen Fleming
- Sanath Jayasuriya I'd have swapped DeSilva with Jayasuriya
- Stuart MacGill
- kapil dev I'd have swapped Kapil with Lee
- Graeme Smith
- Ravi Shastri
- Justin Langer
- Robin Smith
- Dean Jones
- Dilip Vengsarkar
- stephen harmison
Others:
#64. shivnarine chanderpaul I'd have placed him in top-50
#88. mushtaq ahmed I'd have placed him in top-50
#90. inzamam-ul-haq I'd have placed him in top-50
What do you think ? What changes would you make ??
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