The World's 50 Greatest Cricketers

[mcgillianaire]

You have less than 24hrs to post a comment with who you think Shane Warne will pick in his Top 10. Here's 20-11.

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[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

Ponting, McGrath, Lara, Murali. I honestly don't know who else he may pick. Laxman hasn't really blossomed overall, but against Australia and particularly Warnie, he's done magnificently so he may pick him. I doubt he'll pick any among Gibbs, Smith or Ntini from South Africa. Vettori possibly? All this assumes he maintains the general trend of picking guys he played against. Mark Taylor? Surely not. If he doesn't pick Bradman for Number 1, I think he'll pick SRT. I remember when he retired he explained why he gave him the edge over Lara, even though the Windian had more flair and was more dangerous on his day. Regardless of where SRT ends up I'm sure he'll mention something about how impressed he is with the way he handles the pressure/burden of 1 billion supporters. It'll be great if he stun everybody and picks cricketers who retired decades ago in the final list with the exception of Lara, SRT, Pigeon and Punter.

[pappubahry.livejournal.com]

1. Tendulkar
2. Lara
3. Murali (though I will laugh a lot if he excludes him... I know he probably doesn't throw it more than many other bowlers, but I still get a thrill out of big names criticising him.)
4. Wasim Akram
5. Laxman
6. Ambrose
7. McGrath
8. Ponting
9. Border (Warne will be a huge hypocrite if he does pick Border, but I'm expecting he'll be a hypocrite.)
10. Healy (It's ridiculous to have him higher than Gilchrist, but I think Warne hinted at this selection when he said that Gilchrist was "still a batsman-keeper rather than the other way round". And Warne will be biased towards his favourite pure wicket-keeper.)

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

So this rather surprised me- no fewer than seven of the ten largest ODI partnerships in history have been by India.