User:Moondyne/Greatest cricketers

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Australia

  • Shane Warne ... generally regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history
  • Donald Bradman ... generally acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time
  • Bill O'Reilly ... rated as one of the greatest bowlers of all time
  • Dennis Lillee ... rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation"
  • Jeff Thomson ... was one of the fastest bowlers ever to play Test cricket
  • Keith Miller ... is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder.
  • Glenn McGrath ... is one of the most highly regarded fast-medium pace bowlers in cricketing history
  • Dennis Lillee ... one of the most recognisable and renowned Australian sportsmen of all time.
  • Betty Wilson ... is considered as one of the greatest woman cricket players of all-time.
  • Hugh Trumble ... regarded by many as the best off spinner of the late 19th century
  • Charles Turner (cricketer) ... was a bowler who is regarded as one of the finest ever produced by Australia.
  • Monty Noble ... became the greatest all-round Australian player of his time

England

  • Fred Trueman ... regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers in history.
  • Harold Larwood ... [was] the most dangerous fast bowler of his time.
  • Sydney Barnes ... was one of the finest bowlers in cricket history. Indeed, most of the players and critics of his era, both English and Australian, asserted that he was, in fact, the finest.
  • Wally Hammond ... is regarded as one of the best batsmen in the history of cricket
  • Gilbert Jessop ... known as the fastest run-scorer cricket has ever known.
  • Bob Willis ... eventually went on to become one of England's greatest-ever fast bowlers,

India

  • Sachin Tendulkar ... Many of his fellow players, past and present, and cricket experts, regard him as one of the greatest batsmen the game has ever seen.
  • Sunil Gavaskar ... Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in the Indian Test history ...
  • Kapil Dev ... regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders to have played cricket

New Zealand

  • Richard Hadlee ... regarded as one of the best fast bowlers of all time

Pakistan

  • Imran Khan ... is seen as one of the finest all-rounders the game has ever produced
  • Hanif Mohammad ... is regarded as one of Pakistan's greatest cricketers
  • Mushtaq Mohammad ... is one of the most successful Pakistani all-rounders ...
  • Javed Miandad ... is generally regarded as Pakistan's greatest ever batsman, and among the top tier in cricket history.
  • Fazal Mahmood ... regarded as one of the finest seam bowlers of his country's early years.
  • Zaheer Abbas ... is rated as one of the best ever Pakistani batsmen.
  • Wasim Akram ... is widely regarded as one of the finest fast bowlers ever
  • Waqar Younis ... is regarded as one of the greatests fast bowler produced by Pakistan.
  • Inzamam-ul-Haq ... has been regarded as one of the leading cricketers in modern times.

South Africa

  • Graeme Pollock ... is one of South Africa's most famous cricketers and one of the greatest Test batsman of all time ...
  • George Lohmann ... is regarded as one the greatest bowlers of all time.
  • Allan Donald ... was a South African cricketer, and one of their most successful pace bowlers ever.

Sri Lanka

  • Aravinda de Silva ... is considered one of the finest batsmen ever produced by the country.
  • Sanath Jayasuriya ... regarded by many critics and supporters as one of the best ODI players to ever play the game.
  • Muttiah Muralitharan ... is generally regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history

West Indies

  • Garfield Sobers ... widely regarded as the greatest all-rounder (batsman and bowler) the game has ever seen ...
  • George Headley ... is universally acknowledged as one of the finest batsmen of all time ...
  • Brian Lara ... was a peerless record-breaking cricketer, and one of all-time greats.
  • Desmond Haynes ... One of the greatest batsman to ever play for the West Indies,
  • Michael Holding ... was the bowler in what is often described as "the greatest over in Test history"