Pick Your Top 5 of Cricket World

[Rehan_24]

Hi friends

Though there have been many threads which are concerned to world's best 11 and World Best Test Teams etc. But here is another one of that sort which is bit similar but has its own uniqueness.

Pick out your Top fiver in different categories of Cricket.

Kindly Pick those whom you have seen playing in your own era. Please dont add players like Don Bradman and Viv Richards as most of us havent seen them and they are undisputable in master class. Only Induct players you have watched yourself playing.

My list may got mixed ODI Test players because I am seeing class not the format.

Top Five Batsmen

1.Inzamam-ul-Haq
2.Ricky Ponting
3.Adam Gilchrist
4.Justin Langer
5.Mark Waugh


Top Five Bowlers

1.Wasim Akram
2.Glen Mcgrath
3.Shane Warne
4.Shoaib Akhtar
5.Courtney Walsh


Top Five Captains

1.Ricky Ponting
2.Imran Khan
3.Ms Dhoni
4.Shahid Afridi
5.Martin Crowe


Top Five Emerging Talents (Batsman/Bowler)

1.Hashim Amla
2.Shane Watson
3.Umar Akmal
4.Jonathan Trott
5.Virat Kholi


Top Five Grounds/Stadiums

1.Melbourne Cricket Ground
2.The Gabba Brisbane
3.Eden Park Newzeland
4.Multan Cricket Stadium (Most of you haven't seen it but its wonderful)
5.Eden Gardens Calcata


Top Five Commentators

1.Bill Lawry
2.Tony Grieg
3.Ramiz Raja
4.Naseer Hussain
5.Bumble


Top Five World Cups

1.World Cup 1992
2.World Cup 1996
3.World Cup 2011
4.World Cup 1999
5.World Cup 2003

 

[War]

Bastmen:

Tendulkar
Lara
Ponting
S Waugh
Kallis

Bowlers

McGrath
Warne
Donald
Steyn
Muralitharan


Captains:

Fleming
Conje
Vaughan
Warne
Ganguly


TFET:

Watson
Roach
Tremlett
Morgan
Riaz


Top Grounds:

Eden Gardens
Lord's
MCG
Sabina Park
Queenstown in NZ or Brisbane

Top Commentators:

Lawry
David Hookes
David Lloyd
Shastri
Greig/Danny Morrison

Tony Lewis & Jonathan Agnew also right up their

Top WCs:

1999
1975
1992
1987
1996

 

[Aussie Team]

Ponting (Aus)
Kallis (SA)
Bradman (Aus)
Barrington (Eng)
IVA Richards (WI)



McGrath (Aus)
Donald (SA)
Warne (Aus)
RJ Hadlee (NZ)
Garner (WI)



Fleming (NZ)
Ponting (Aus)
Waugh (Aus)
Lloyd (WI)
Pollock (SA)



Watson (Aus)
de Villiers (SA)
Southee (NZ)
R Taylor (NZ)
Morgan (Eng)



MCG
Oval
Eden Park, New Zealand
Adelaide Oval
Sahara Park Newlands



2007
2003
1999
1992
1996

 

[sami ullah khan]

Top 5 Batsman
Sachin Tendulkar
Inzimam Ul Haq
Brian Lara
Kallis
Ricky Ponting

Top 5 Bowlers
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Glen Mcgrath
Waqar Younis
Malcolm Marshall

Captains
Imran Khan
Fleming
Waugh
Saurav Ganguly
MS Dhoni

Emerging Talent
Kohli
Morgan
Wahab Riaz
Amla
AB

Grounds
MCG
Eden Garden
Lords
Galle SriLanka ( I hope I have spelled it right)
Gabba

Commentators
David Lloyd
Holding
Boycott
Ramiz Raja
Nasser Hussain

 

[Prithvi]

Top 5 Batsman
Virender Sehwag
Sachin Tendulkar
Adam Gilchrist
Stephen Fleming
Ricky Ponting

Top 5 Bowlers
Anil Kumble
McGrath
Brett Lee
Dale Steyn
Muttaiah Muralidharan

Captains
Ricky Ponting
MS Dhoni
Graeme Smith
Chris Gayle
Adam Gilchrist

Emerging Talent
Virat Kohli
Suresh Raina
Doug Bollinger
JP Duminy
Eoin Morgan

Grounds
Wankhede, Mumbai
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide (old one)
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad (its planning and sales of tickets-Awesome is the only word)
M. Chinnaswami Stadium, Bengaluru
Kensington Oval, Barbados.

Commentators
Not interested, as I play music by muting the TV

Top WCs:

2011
2003
1999
1983
1987

 

[Sahil 7]

Top 5 Batsman
Virender Sehwag
Sachin Tendulkar
Adam Gilchrist
Bradman
Ricky Ponting

Top 5 Bowlers
Anil Kumble
McGrath
Shane warne
Dale Steyn
Muttaiah Muralidharan


Captains
Ricky Ponting
MS Dhoni
Graeme Smith
Ganguly
Adam Gilchrist


Emerging Talent
Virat Kohli
Suresh Raina
Doug Bollinger
robin uthappa
Eoin Morgan


Grounds
Wankhede, Mumbai
MCG
Navi mumbai
M. Chinnaswami Stadium, Bengaluru
johannesburg

Commentators
David Lloyd
Nasser Hussain
ravi shastri
Danny Morrison
Tony Grieg

2011
2003
1999
1987
1983

 

[cricket_icon]

Top Five Batsmen

1.Tendulkar
2.Ricky Ponting
3.Lara
4.M. Yousuf
5.Inzamam


Top Five Bowlers

1.Wasim Akram
2.Murali
3.Shane Warne
4.McGrath
5.Waqar Younis


Top Five Captains

1.Ricky Ponting
2.MS Dhoni
3.Jayawardene (the way in which he handled imself was extraordinary. classy man)
4.Stephen Fleming
5.Micheal Vaughn (captain of englands best period in years)


Top Five Emerging Talents (Batsman/Bowler)

1. Umar Akmal
2. Stephen Finn
3. Angelo Mathews
4. C. Kieswetter
5. Adil Rashid


Top Five Grounds/Stadiums

1.Melbourne Cricket Ground
2.Eden Gardens Calcutta
3.Lords (small by modern standards but the feeling there is something else)
4.Multan Cricket Stadium (Most of you haven't seen it but its wonderful)
5.GABBA


Top Five Commentators

1. Tony Grieg
2. Bumble
3. Richie Benaud
4. Naseer Hussain
5. Micheal Holding



Top Five World Cups

1.World Cup 2011
2.World Cup 1999
3.World Cup 2003
4.World Cup 1996 ( i remember it vaguely)
5.World Cup 2007 (the worse thing imaginable)

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Of whom I've seen...and trust me, there is some bias here

Batsmen:
Sachin
Dravid
Lara
ABDV in the last couple of years
VVS

Haven't seen too much of Ponting, and I value VVS's back-to-the-wall heroics far more that actual runs scored. Plus he's nice to watch. ABDV has looked like a beast last few years - big hitting, near perfect technique, fast between the wickets, capable of innovative shots. I think he's gonna dominate in the next couple of years. Dravid was fantastic, I loved his defensive technical style. Grinding bowlers into submission, with the odd glorious stroke. Wonderful. Lara was a genius on form, easily the most entertaining I've seen, and Sachin is the perfect batsman really.


Bowlers:
Warne
Wasim
Murali
Steyn
McGrath

Steyn another future great in the making, was so brilliant in the last year or so. Amazing to watch. Warne and Murali need to explanations, geniuses, and Wasim made me wish I was a left-hander so I could try to emulate him. McGrath was the perfect bowler in that he could land the ball wherever he wanted, whenever he wanted, and had an amazing brain. The way he picked out tiny technical flaws, nagged at a batsman and worked them over was so brilliant.

 

[Papa_Smurf]

Batsmen:

Laxman
MoYo (2006)
ABDV
Sachin
Amla (2010)

Bowlers:

Steyn
Asif
Warne
Murali
Akhtar

 

[Cricketman]

Only from what I've seen -

Top Five Batsmen

1.Sachin Tendulkar
2.Rahul Dravid
3.Brian Lara
4.Ricky Ponting
5.Steve Waugh

6. VVS Laxman, just for matchwinning ability
7. Adam Gilchrist, same as above


Top Five Bowlers

1.Shane Warne
2.Wasim Akram
3.Muttiah Muralitharan
4.Dale Steyn
5.Anil Kumble


Top Five Captains

1.Steve Waugh
2.Sourav Ganguly
3.Stephen Fleming
4. MS Dhoni
5.?? Graeme Smith just for the fact that he got the job so early, became very successful


Top Five Emerging Talents (Batsman/Bowler)

1.Virat Kohli
2.Suresh Raina
3. Eoin Morgan
4. Usman Khwaja
5.D Bishoo


Top Five Grounds/Stadiums

1.Lords
2.MCG
3.SCG
4. Durban
5.Eden Gardens/Chepauk




Top Five World Cups

i've only really followed the last 3,

1. 2011
2. 2003
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3. 2007

 

[ZJDuggan]

Batsmen
1. Tendulkar
2. Ponting
3. Lara
4. Hayden
5. Smith

Bowlers
1. Warne
2. Walsh
3. McGrath
4. Muralitharan
5. Donald/Steyn