Best Cricket Players of All Time

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Posted: July 17, 2015

Updated: October 6, 2017

GamingZion presents the ten cricketers that justly have the epithet “best cricket players” in the history of the sport

Cricket is the most popular sport in many places of the world. Unlike other sports there are competitive national cricket team on all continents. As online sportsbooks in Australia report, England, Australia, India, South Africa are just some of the countries where the popularity of cricket is above any other sport, except football in the case of England. These national teams have played an important role in the history of cricket and have given some of the most extraordinary cricketers of all time.
• Imran Khan, the best player of Pakistan place fifth on the eternal list
• Gary Sobers, the greatest all-rounder in history
• Sir Don Bradman, the best cricketer of all time


While we are in the middle of this year’s Ashes tournament, we would like to point out to some of the best cricket players in the history of the sport. There are many rankings and fans can argue for hours who was the best all-rounder or the most magnificent batsman of all time. However, on any list we could find, there seem to be a place for the excellency of the ten players that GamingZion chose to be the best in the history of cricket.

The second half of GamingZion’s best cricket players list

Wasim Akrnam, Shane Warne, Brian Lara
Our top ten list starts with Wasim Akram. The Pakistani cricketer is considered to be one of the most amazing fast bowlers of all time. He is a record holder for most wickets in List A cricket and second in the ODI wickets, with 881 and 502 respectively. His brand mark was the move of the ball in both ways in one delivery which was later known as “double Akram swing”. Shane Warne, on position nine, was one of the five cricket players that cricket experts selected to be the Wisden Cricketers of the Century. Warne is still active with an amazing record of wickets in Test and ODI that goes over the number 1000. We place Brian Lara on position seven because of his incredible batsman’s abilities. He is a record holder in several categories but the most distinguished one, as gambling news report, is the 501 not outs in first class cricket.

Muthiah Muralitharan, Jacque Kallis
Muthiah Muralitharan, on place number six is regarded as the best bowler of all time when the Test format is concerned. He is widely renowned to be the highest wicket-taker in cricket, overcoming the record by Shane Warne in 2007. With Jacque Kallis we end the second half of our list. He is considered to be one of the best all-rounders of all time and is the only cricket player in history that scored more than 250 wickets and 11,000 runs in ODI and Test. He is also the second-highest scorer of Test centuries, counting until 40, right behind the leader Sachin Tendulkar with 51.

The five best cricket players in history

Imran Khan, Vivian Richards
The best Pakistani in cricket history, Imran Khan, is placed on our fifth position. He is the most important contributor for Pakistan’s champion title on the Cricket World Cup in 1992. The statistic behind his name, when Test cricket is concerned, is absolutely impressive: 3807 runs, and 362 wickets, which make him one of the eight players that scored an “All-rounder’s Triple”. Form July 14th he is became part of the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. Vivian Richards, the greatest batsmen of all time in the ODI cricket is number four. As online gambling sites in Australia report, he was chosen in the year 2000 by experts to be Cricketer of the Century together with names such as Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Jack Hobbs and Shane Warne.

Sobers, Tendulkar, Bradman
Our top three start with the amazing Gary Sobers, one of the most elegant cricket players of all time. In 1958 he set up a record of 365 not outs as well as one for the highest score in an innings, which was not overcome for 36 years, when Brian Lara in 1994 scored 375. Place number two is reserved for the former Indian captain Sachin Tendulkar ranked in 2002 by cricket experts as the second greatest batsman in the history of Test cricket. Practically there is no batting record that is not in his possession. He was also part of the Indian team that won the Cricket World Cup in 2011. Finally, the best cricket player of all time according to GamingZion is the most extraordinary batsman of all time, Sir Don Bradman. The batting average he hold of 99.94 is by many sportsman in general regarded as one of the greatest achievement by an athlete in any sport of all time.

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