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Which is the greatest cricketer of the era?
Greatest Test Averages
Player | Played | |
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1 | DG Bradman (AUS) | 1928-1948 |
2 | AC Voges (AUS) | 2015-2016 |
3 | SPD Smith (AUS) | 2010+ |
4 | RG Pollock (SA) | 1963-1970 |
Who is the era of cricket?
Cricket writer Jack Pollard wrote: “The golden age of cricket has always been regarded as the period between 1890 and 1914. For in all those years all the skills of the game flowered and an unprecedented array of great batsman and bowlers delighted informed and appreciative galleries.
Who is No 1 batsman of all time?
Top 5 Test batsmen
Rank | Batsman | Rating |
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1 | Donald Bradman | 1349.0 |
2 | Sachin Tendulkar | 1000. 5 |
3 | Viv Richards | 913.9 |
4 | Garfield Sobers | 912.0 |
Is fast bowling tough?
“As a bowler you can only bowl in a straight line. Whereas a batsman can literally hit the ball 360 degrees with different angles of his bat and different parts of his bat. Front foot, back foot, high, low.
Why Viv Richards is greatest?
He became the first player to score a fifty and to take a five wicket haul in the same ODI. He also became the first cricketer to score a century as well as to take a five wicket haul in the same ODI match. Richards was the first player to complete the double of scoring 1000 runs and taking 50 wickets in ODI history.
Which batsman has scored the most runs in Test cricket?
Sachin Tendulkar – 200 Test matches; 15,921 runs; 51 centuries, 68 half-centuries, a highest score of 248 and an average of 53.78. It is quite surprising that a batsman as good as Kumar Sangakkara wasn’t recognised on the same level as batting greats like Tendulkar, Lara, Ponting and Kallis.
Who are the top 10 cricketers of all time?
1 SR Tendulkar 2 Sir Don Bradman 3 Ricky Ponting 4 Brian Lara 5 Sir Vivian Richards 6 Adam Gilchrist 7 Imran Khan 8 Shahid Afridi 9 Wasim Akram 10 Muttiah Muralitharan
Who is the greatest batsman of all time?
Wisden’s Greatest Ever Player. In the early 2000’s, Wisden released a list of the all-time top 100 greatest Test players, using a unique rating system. The highest ranked batsman was Donald Bradman, a clear leader above Sachin Tendulkar.
How to rank the best Test bowlers by wickets taken?
The goal of a cricket bowler is to take as many wickets as possible with minimal runs taken, so what better way to rank the best test bowlers than by listing the total number of wickets taken.
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