Cricketer of the decade

In this thread we discuss and debate who was the best cricketer of the last decade

Here's a list of contenders from cricinfo:

http://www.cricinfo.com/decadereview2009/content/story/440770.html

Reading that list, it's pretty amazing how awesome Kallis has been over the last 10 years.

The one person missing from that list -- and I may get a bagged for this -- is Daniel Vettori. He has just been so impressive the last 5 years and just keeps on improving every game, not to mention his roles as coach and selector!

What Grame Smith is doing in that company I have no idea. Sangakkara and Dravid seem dodgy too...... but dont hang me till Ive taken a closer look at the stats. My initial feeling is

1)Warne
2) Lara
3) Kallis

But I may do some work on that and adjust later

No way they'll pick Warne, when he couldn't even pip Murali for Wisden honours. All the usual criticisms will come out here for the Laras and Kallis of this world. Lara scored a lot of runs in dead rubbers where there was nothing on the line, he didn't win enough games for a Windies unit that was still very good in his era. As for Kallis, I think he's got a definite edge with his bowling in there- because as a batsmen whilst he is prolific, he hasn't really shown match winning or huge innings. He's the guy that gets 100* off 280 balls while the team crumbles around him.

Also very hard to compare bowlers with batters etc. I would be tempted to put Gilly in my top 3 personally. I wasn't gonna have a go at this, but fuck it... I will. Let's not forget this is in all forms of the game too.

1. Murali
2. Tendulkar
3. Gilchrist

Bear in mind those aren't MY picks necessarily, but more how I think it could go.



gc.

SMF u do realise

A We asked over 30 players (current and former), commentators, cricket writers and other insiders to pick their top three cricketers of the 2000s. Each No. 1 vote fetches a player three points; No. 2, two; No. 3, one

Jonathan Agnew, BBC cricket correspondent; Mushtaq Ahmed, former Pakistan legspinner; Sambit Bal, Cricinfo editor; Scyld Berry, editor, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack; Rahul Bhattacharya, writer; Harsha Bhogle, writer and TV presenter; Geoff Boycott, former England opener; Alex Brown, deputy editor, Cricinfo; John Buchanan, former Australia coach; Ian Chappell, former Australia captain; Tony Cozier, writer and commentator; Martin Crowe, former New Zealand captain; Peter English, Australasia editor, Cricinfo; Graham Gooch, former England captain; Tony Greig, former England captain, and commentator; Gideon Haigh, writer; Rob Houwing, chief writer for Sport24.co.za; Athar Ali Khan, former Bangladesh opener; Rashid Latif , former Pakistan wicketkeeper; Geoff Lawson, former Australia fast bowler; David Lloyd, former England coach; Ranjan Madugalle, ICC match referee; Pradeep Magazine , writer; Sanjay Manjrekar, writer and former India batsman; Neil Manthorp, broadcaster and writer; Ayaz Memon, writer; Suresh Menon, writer; Andrew Miller, UK editor, Cricinfo; Tom Moody, former Australia allrounder, former Sri Lanka coach; Dileep Premachandran, associate editor, Cricinfo; Ramiz Raja, former Pakistan batsman; Mark Richardson, former New Zealand opener; Peter Roebuck, writer; Christian Ryan, former editor of Wisden Australia; Osman Samiuddin, Pakistan editor, CricinfoJohn Stern, editor of the Wisden Cricketer; Javagal Srinath, former India fast bowler; Daniel Vettori, New Zealand captain

I dont really see that list being as anti-Warne as Wisden

My picks were personal, not what i think they will go for. I think they will go

No ball!
Warne
Tendulker or Ponting

wtf, just noticed that Vettori is in that list you posted Maestro. The only current player to be voting.

Is there anything this guy can't do!? :>

see without wearing glasses

*burn*

well, anyways,

this is how it went down
The Top 10

* Ricky Ponting 60 points (13 No. 1s, 6 No. 2s, 9 No. 3s)
* Jacques Kallis 37 (5, 9, 4)
* Adam Gilchrist 29 (7, 3, 2)
* Muttiah Muralitharan 27 (3, 5, 8 )
* Glenn McGrath 24 (3, 5, 5)
* Sachin Tendulkar 23.5 (3, 5, 4.5)
* Shane Warne 20.5 (3. 5. 1.5)
* Brian Lara 3 (1, 0, 0)
* Rahul Dravid 2 (0, 0, 2)
* Shivnarine Chanderpaul 1 (0, 0, 1)

Gilly over Murali... Gilly was hardly any better than Les Ames

We're talking all forms of the game here Vads. Gilchrist was utterly destructive at his best.

Fuck Ponting.



gc.

hate ponting

I think we can add...."chase the ball without looking gumby"

Really really suprised Warne fared so badly

Through a fog of hate I also tend to lose sight of the fact Ponting really is very very good

And its pretty awesome Muli didnt nake the top 3, I gaurentee it my man Rigor didnt vote for him. He would have cast ermmmm "ant-votes" if he could. Mark knows whats what

I would have voted Kallis no doubt

Had this conversation with Maestro about a week ago ...