Posted by: sahayog September 1, 2007
Shane Warne's Top 50 Greatest Cricketers
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The list in full 50 Jamie Siddons 49 Darren Berry 48 Brian McMillan 47 Chris Cairns 46 Dilip Vengsarkar 45 Waqar Younis 44 Alec Stewart 43 Michael Atherton 42 Ravi Shastri 41 Justin Langer 40 Kapil Dev 39 Stuart MacGill 38 Sanath Jayasuriya 37 Stephen Harmison 36 Andy Flower 35 Michael Vaughan 34 Bruce Reid 33 Allan Donald 32 Robin Smith 31 Tim May 30 Kevin Pietersen 29 Shoaib Akhtar / Craig McDermott 28 Saeed Anwar / Mohammad Yousuf 27 Jacques Kallis / Shaun Pollock 26 Steve Waugh 25 Darren Lehmann 24 Brett Lee 23 Stephen Fleming 22 Martin Crowe 21 David Boon 20 Adam Gilchrist 19 Aravinda de Silva 18 Merv Hughes 17 Matthew Hayden 16 Andrew Flintoff 15 Graham Gooch 14 Rahul Dravid 13 Anil Kumble 12 Mark Waugh 11 Courtney Walsh 10 Ian Healy 9 Mark Taylor 8 Ricky Ponting 7 Muttiah Muralitharan 6 Wasim Akram 5 Glenn McGrath 4 Allan Border 3 Curtly Ambrose 2 Brian Lara 1 Sachin Tendulkar Winning numbers 20 Australians in Warne’s favourite 50 (53 as it turned out). There are eight Englishmen, six Indians, five Pakistanis, four South Africans, three New Zealanders, three Sri Lankans, three West Indians and a Zimbabwean. 4,615 Test caps won by Warne’s elite, making an average of 87 each 18 Ashes winners for Australia 5 Ashes winners for England (Harmison, Vaughan, Pietersen, Flintoff and Gooch) 20 Members of a World Cup-winning squad. Three for India in 1983 (Vengsarkar, Shastri, Dev); six for Australia in 1987 (Reid, May, McDermott, S Waugh, Boon, Border); one for Pakistan in 1992 (Wasim Akram); three for Sri Lanka in 1996 (Jayasuriya, De Silva, Muralitharan) and seven for Australia in 1999, 2003 and/or 2007 (Lehmann, Lee, Gilchrist, McGrath, Hayden, Ponting and M Waugh).
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