New Delhi: More than 16000 cricket fans voted in an online poll conducted by Cricket Australia to decide the No. 1 test player of the century. Sachin Tendulkar topped the list by securing 23 per cent of the votes. The Indian batting maestro was adjudged thebest Test player of the 21st century by cricket fans on an online vote.
The online poll, which witnessed more than 16,000 fans participating, was conducted on cricket.com.au to find out the best Test player since 2000. After ten days of voting and deliberations, the result was released yesterday.
Tendulkar, the Little Master who remains an iconic figure in the sport, was a runaway winner, jumping four places from where cricket.com.au had him placed, while batting giants Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis were separated on countback, with the Australian just edging out his Proteas counterpart.
Tendulkar polled an impressive 23% of the votes, followed by prodigious Sri Lankan wicketkeeper-batsman Kumar Sangakkara in the second spot. Australian duo of Adam Gilchrist and Rickey Ponting followed the roll, with former South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis occupying the fifth spot.
Kallis’ Proteas compatriot AB de Villiers pipped Aussie wizard Shane Warne to the sixth spot. Glenn McGrath, Muthiah Muralidaran and Dale Steyn complete the top-ten list. Surprisingly, in Cricket Austalia’s version of Top 10 best Test players, Tendulkar was placed in the fifth spot with Adam Gilchrist toping the list.
In an unrivaled career spanning 24 years, Tendulkar played 200 Test matches and scored 15921 runs at an average of 53.78. He also scored a record 51 Test hundreds and 68 fifties, making him arguably the most prolific batsman of all time.
Bureau Report
Leave a Reply