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[TumTum]

Then again, who really is?

No offense, but I would rate Sobers and Richards above Tendulkar.

 

[stereotype]

I would nearly take one Bradman over two Sachins tbh.

 

[blazerix]

No offense, but I would rate Sobers and Richards above Tendulkar.

As would I, they were amazing and I really like Sobers in particular. Anyways, who knows? I think Sachin can pull it off as long as he doesn't make any stupid decisions.

 

[Cricketman]

Sobers obviously. I would rate Sobers higher than Bradman. 8000 runs, 230 wickets - bowled pace, spin, and was an excellent fielder. Never kept but i'm sure he would've been stellar at that too. Best cricketer ever.

Richards is debatable. He was Sachin's hero growing up. Only played a fraction of the matches Tendulkar did, yet Sachin still has similar/better stats. Probably matched the belligerence of Richards in the 90s as well.

1. Garfield Sobers
2. Don Bradman
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Viv Richards
5. Shane Warne/Wasim Akram

My top 5 greatest/most influential cricketers. Sobers the model cricketer, Bradman the batting monster, Sachin the genius, Richards the Brute, Warne's magical wrist spin and Akram's amazing use of swing and pace. Imagine all of them in the same lineup!

Then again, I have never seen Bradman play. For all we know he could have gotten all his runs from edges and mis-hits! Plus, he only played one opposition and in 2 countries. Maybe he sucked against the spinners... Statistics only tell us so much.

 

[ballers101]

Sobers obviously. I would rate Sobers higher than Bradman. 8000 runs, 230 wickets - bowled pace, spin, and was an excellent fielder. Never kept but i'm sure he would've been stellar at that too. Best cricketer ever.

Richards is debatable. He was Sachin's hero growing up. Only played a fraction of the matches Tendulkar did, yet Sachin still has similar/better stats. Probably matched the belligerence of Richards in the 90s as well.

1. Garfield Sobers
2. Don Bradman
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Viv Richards
5. Shane Warne/Wasim Akram

My top 5 greatest/most influential cricketers. Sobers the model cricketer, Bradman the batting monster, Sachin the genius, Richards the Brute, Warne's magical wrist spin and Akram's amazing use of swing and pace. Imagine all of them in the same lineup!

Then again, I have never seen Bradman play. For all we know he could have gotten all his runs from edges and mis-hits! Plus, he only played one opposition and in 2 countries. Maybe he sucked against the spinners... Statistics only tell us so much.

Exactly what you said about Bradman, I highly doubt 10 or 12 year old children are like "when I grow I want ot be like Bradman, even though not even my grandfather saw him play." Sobers like I said he is a great test figure but never participated in a World Cup before so for him to be the most influential cricketer he would have to be a figure in both Tests and ODIs and for me that cricketer is Sachin Tendulkar, but other people have different views.


And BTW TumTum, If you have never seen a batsmen play cricket before you have no clue how good he was that's it. I don't care if you say you have seen stats about it, you must see a player actually play a good game of cricket before you dub him the greatest cricketer of all time. We have seen Sobers, Richards and Tendulkar play so we have seen how good they are. This does not just happen in one sport, it is apart of many other sports. How can you determine the greatest player to ever play if you have not seen all of them play. I just don't understand how you block that point out of your argument, theres so many things you have to keep into consideration. Bradman only faced 1 team, England, he played in only 2 countries, Australia and England. We have no clue how strong the batting and bowling sides were at the time but what we do know is that spinning was in its early stages before it became a strength in bowling sides. So basically he faced the same team over and over again, plus he had to face basically only a pace lineup. Also, there stuff like the wars he played during time of war, what if at the same time a great English bowler died fighting for England you just don't know what happend thats all.

That's why I say again you don't know how good he REALLY was if he played in today's society would he have an average of nearly 100, heck no. This is why I say Richards and Sobers are in the conversation because we know they would play extremely well in today's society. We have no clue how good Bradman would have been so from my standpoint, leave him out of the question because I know for a fact that he has not affected the sport more than Sobers, Richards or Tendulkar. And in my opinion Tendulkar has had more affect to the game than any other cricketer, because he is the best ODI player in my opinion. And one of the best Tests players easily so overall, he is the greatest in MY MIND.

 

[TumTum]

Vivian Richards has the fastest ever Test century and an amazing ODI record, better than Tendulkar's.

1. Don Bradman
2. Gary Sobers
3. Vivian Richards

Oh btw Ballers, don't start with the stupid argument about kids idols, who listens to those brats anyway

 

[srikarr12]

Here we go again about whos greater.:sarcasm(i find it funny if we compared ponting vs tendulkar. ponting always wins. but if we compare tendulkar to the past legendary greats. He loses but ponting's name never comes up. LOL)

Can we just stick to the topic. tendulkar is looking to play till the next world cup. He would easly get 100 internationals centuries even if he retired from tests.

 

[TumTum]

Tendulkar will definetly get a century of centuries.

TumTum added 2 Minutes and 44 Seconds later...

(i find it funny if we compared ponting vs tendulkar. ponting always wins. but if we compare tendulkar to the past legendary greats. He loses but ponting's name never comes up. LOL)

It's because nobody cares about Captaincy or Fielding when selecting all time greats. However atm Ponting is more valuable to Australia than Tendulkar is to India. But that doesn't really mean anything.

 

[ballers101]

Vivian Richards has the fastest ever Test century and an amazing ODI record, better than Tendulkar's.

1. Don Bradman
2. Gary Sobers
3. Vivian Richards

Oh btw Ballers, don't start with the stupid argument about kids idols, who listens to those brats anyway

Okay that's your opinion, I have my own and you say thats a stupid argument about kids idols. How about your great argument about how Viv Richards getting the FASTEST test century has any relevance to how good he is. Afridi has the fastest ODI century but that doesn't mean he's one of the best batsmen ever to play. I just don't understand one thing though, you ignore my whole argument about how you never saw Bradman play and you focus on the things that were not the focal point of my argument.

 

[McLOVIN]

LOL i wasn't trying to reply to you, it was ballers post on the last page, you just managed to post before me :rtfl

oh, so things were all good, i messed it up by trying to fix it, by thinking it was all messed up?

 

[AbhishekS]

Okay that's your opinion, I have my own and you say thats a stupid argument about kids idols. How about your great argument about how Viv Richards getting the FASTEST test century has any relevance to how good he is. Afridi has the fastest ODI century but that doesn't mean he's one of the best batsmen ever to play. I just don't understand one thing though, you ignore my whole argument about how you never saw Bradman play and you focus on the things that were not the focal point of my argument.

Exactly what I wished to say.
Tendulkar is above Sobers and Richards for sure.

 

[drainpipe32]

Lmao, please don't bring up the Ponting v Tendulkar debate!

 

[stereotype]

Bradman would have been so from my standpoint, leave him out of the question because I know for a fact that he has not affected the sport more than Sobers, Richards or Tendulkar .

Because of Bradman we can only have two players behind square on the legside in test cricket.

Ritchie Benaud saw Bradman play even interviewed him, so if he says he effected the game more then would you believe him? Because he has his say on him in a book, worth a read.

Bradman and his effect of the game is more than you know, he was the greatest cricketer of all time with only Garfield Sobers as someone anywhere near him. He was an example of class and awe. Bradman got kids playing the game as well but not only that but then he had a myriad of official and unofficial roles in the game and his comments on the game are taken with the utmost respect, absolutely second to none.

That is why people use Bradman and his description of Sachin Tendulkar to confirm what a great player he is.

Read this, a little example of what Richie Benaud says about the man. Richie Benaud, another whose comments for the game are given the utmost respect and someone who rates Sachin as number 2 to the Don.

Is Don, is good - and always will be, say legends - Cricket - Sport - smh.com.au

 

[drainpipe32]

Lmao, that's such a great name for the article.

One of my mates surname is Don, so we used to be like 'Is Don, is.....'

 

[Gurjot95]

Why every Tendulkar based thread turn out to this