I still believe Warne wasn't the cricketer he was for nothing. I don't know about u no queiro, but as far as I am concerned I know he is more than 10,000 times knowledgeable than people like me who only see cricket and have never played cricket at that level. So, the judgement of Warne is only I respect and I can only go with the experts who can claim to be half good a cricketer Warne was.

The views that I respect are from players like Botham,Viv Richards, Imran Khan,Atherton a big no no coz man u were good but not always that correct and u were forced to eat a humble pie everytime u criticized the great man, and above all I have to blindly accept the verdict made by Don Bradman in early 90s when he was watching Sachin bat and called his wife saying this guy reminds of my days. I am not talking about the Sachin of post 2003, but the Sachin of 1989- 1999. A whole decade where he literally carried the entire weight of his team, just as the way Lara did in his later years, specially after 1996 world cup, when Richie Richardson retired.

Inzamaam will be in the top 20 best batsmen in anyones list, why Warne doesn't include him is debatable...may be he never saw Inzy as big a threat Lara or Sachin or others were. The pakistan batsman who has best records against Aussies was Saeed Anwar, Inzy for some reason didn't do as well as he could have...even though he was a terrific player of genuine fast bowling.

Now, considering the quality of fast bowling, and bowling as a whole, when people had to face chin music of Jeff Thompson, ferocious and almost murderous bowling of Marshall, Holding, and Roberts...in general these Youhanas, and others wouldn't have scored easy runs if they played in 70s, 80s 0r in early 90s (with Wasim, Waqar, Ambrose, Walsh, Donald..all super quicks and very lethal in early days), my top 5 batsmen based on skill, temperament and achievements..in order of supremacy are :(last 50 years, say since 1960s)

1. Viv Richards

2. Sunil Gavaskar

3.Brian Lara

4.Sachin Tendulkar

5.tough to name