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well in first place
1. Send misbah ul haq to australia & face
CHIN MUSIC there....then i will see how well is he a player .
2. Also comparing
SACHIN with anyone is not correct ....others cant match the experience & consistensy level he has shown after such a long cricketing carrier .
3.He is called GOD as simply he is the most honest & grounded cricketer away from controversies always playing the game with a spirit.
And finally its absolutely ridiculous to compare MISBAH ul HAQ to any international greats
Yes agreed on Misbah - It's WAY too early to call him great. He needs to play well against Australia and he needs to score HEAPS more runs. The man hasn't even scored 700 test runs yet. Ponting and Kallis have scored around 5000 in the last 5 years, there is no way a guy with less than 700 could top those 2 for the title of best player in the last 5 years - even if he never got out and scored at over 100 S/R.
I made a list of my top 18 based mainly on averages yes, but adding extra weight to those by taking into account how well a player does against the best (Australia, who have been ranked #1 for the whole of the last 5 years BTW) and how they do away from home and disregarding how they did against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
Here's my list:
1. Ricky Ponting - Aus (Plays worse outside Australia, but only because his record at home is insanely good recently. His disappointing performances vs Ind last summer and Eng in 2005 puts him only marginally ahead of Kallis by my reckoning)
2. Jacques Kallis - SA
3. Shiv Chanderpaul - WI
4. Virender Sehwag - Ind (good record vs Aussies puts him higher on my list than many would rate him)
5. Mike Hussey - Aus (Worse outside Australia)
6. Rahul Dravid - Ind
7. Younis Khan - Pak
8. Mohammad Yousuf - Pak (only played 3 tests vs Aus in last 5 years and failed, makes it hard to justify his gaudy numbers elsewhere. Worse outside Pakistan)
9. Kevin Pietersen - Eng
10. Matthew Hayden - Aus (Worse outside Australia)
11. Kumar Sangakkara - SL
12. Brian Lara - WI
13. Michael Clarke - Aus
14. VVS Laxman - Ind
15. Mahela Jayawardene - SL (Most would rate him higher, but can't play Aussies well or outside SL well)
16. Justin Langer - Aus
17. Sachin Tendulkar - Ind
18. Damien Martyn - Aus
That's about all the batsmen I could justify listing . After that you're left with average guys like Strauss, Collingwood, Ashwell Prince, Ganguly - guys of that level.