1. Sir Donald Bradman (Australia)
Sir Donald George Bradman, was born on 27 August 1908. Died at 25 February 2001. nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
The story that the young Bradman practised alone with a cricket stump and a golf ball is part of Australian folklore.Bradman's meteoric rise from bush cricket to the Australian Test team took just over two years. Before his 22nd birthday, he had set many records for top scoring, some of which still stand, and became Australia's sporting idol at the height of the Great Depression.
"The Don" is one of Australia's most iconic sportsmen, and widely regarded as the greatest batsman of all time for his unparalleled batting average.
Years active: 1927-1949
Test runs: 6,996
Batting average: 99.94
2. Sachin Tendulkar (India)
A modern legend of the game, Tendulkar is India's very own God of Cricket, a world class batsman who also had decent bowling ability.
Years active: 1988 - 2013
Test runs: 15,921
Batting average: 53.78
Test wickets: 46
Bowling average: 54.17
3. Sir Garfield Sobers (West Indies)
Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, Sobers made his first-class debut for the Barbados cricket team at the age of 16 in 1953, and his Test debut for the West Indies the following year. Originally playing mainly as a bowler, he was soon promoted up the batting order
The West Indies all-rounder could do everything – he was equally accomplished as a fast and spin bowler, and he was a shrewd batsman.
Years active: 1952 - 1974
Test runs: 8,032
Batting average: 57.78
Bowling average: 34.03
4. Imran Khan (Pakistan)
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi was born in 5 October 1952.He is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Pakistan and the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Before entering politics, Khan was an international cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team, which he led to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
Khan was born to a Pashtun family in Lahore in 1952, and graduated from Keble College, Oxford in 1975. He began his international cricket career at age 18, in a 1971 Test series against England. Khan played until 1992, served as the team's captain intermittently between 1982 and 1992, and won the Cricket World Cup, in what is Pakistan's first and only victory in the competition
5. Sir Ian Botham (England)
Sir Ian Terence Botham was onborn 24 November 1955.He is an English cricket commentator and a former cricketer who has been chairman of Durham County Cricket Club since 2017.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in cricket history, Botham represented England in both Test and One-Day International cricket. He played most of his first-class cricket for Somerset, and also for Worcestershire, Durham and Queensland. He was an aggressive right-handed batsman and, as a right arm fast-medium bowler, was noted for his swing bowling.
6. Shane Warne (Australia)
Shane Keith Warne was on born 13 September 1969.He is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer who captained the Australian national team in One Day Internationals (ODI). Widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game, Warne was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in the 1994 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
He was the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 1997 (Notional Winner).He was banned from the sport in 2003 for testing positive for a prohibited substance. Following the ban, he was named Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for the year 2004 in the 2005 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
7. Sir Viv Richards (West Indies)
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, was born on 7 March 1952.He is an Antiguan retired cricketer, who represented the West Indies at Test and international levels. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.
In December 2002, he was chosen by Wisden as the greatest ODI batsman of all time, as well as the third greatest Test batsman of all time, after Sir Don Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar.
Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century by a 100-member panel of experts in 2000, along with Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Jack Hobbs and Shane Warne. He is also the mentor of T20 team Quetta Gladiators in Pakistan Super League.
8. Brian Lara (West Indies)
Brian Charles Lara, was born 2 May 1969. He is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.
He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994,which is the only quintuple-hundred in first-class cricket history.
9. Jaques Kallis (South Africa)
Jacques Kallis was born on 16 October 1975.He is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer. As a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium swing bowler, Kallis is regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders of all time, and as South Africa's greatest batsman.
As of 2020 he is the only cricketer in the history of the game to score more than 10,000 runs and take over 250 wickets in both ODI and Test match cricket; he also took 131 ODI catches. He scored 13,289 runs in his Test match career and took 292 wickets and 200 catches.
10. MS Dhoni (India)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni was born 7 July 1981. He is an Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. He is the only captain in the history of Cricket to win all ICC trophies.
Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the 2010 and 2016 Asia Cups, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. A right-handed middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper, Dhoni is one of the highest run scorers in One Day Internationals (ODIs) with more than 10,000 runs scored and is considered an effective "finisher" in limited-overs formats. He is also regarded by some as one of the best wicket-keepers and captains in modern limited-overs international cricket.
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