1)Saeed Anwar
2)Sachin Tendulkar
3)Brian Lara
4)Aravinda de silva
5)Steve Waugh
6)Moin Khan
7)Wasim Akram
8)Shane Warne
9)Waqar Younis
10)Walsh
11)Ambrose
Suhail should i post your version???
Also is Monkey boy on the other board a friend of yours in college or do you know him from this site.
Also what is this bloody thing about being a senior or junior member???
I originally had Martin Crowe at number 5, because I wanted to have as many nations represented as possible. Later someone suggested Aravinda de Silva which seemed to me a better choice as he did more in the '90s.
MonkeyRat is a friend at uni.
After a certain number of posts you will be a Senior Member. . .yeah, I don't see the point either.
what about..
Javed Miandad
Jacques Kallis
Imran Khan
Hansie Cronje
Jacques Kallis
[This message has been edited by Akif (edited December 14, 1999).]
Akif, it does seem as if everyone forgets completely about RSA when selecting teams of the decade. Your choice of Kallis though should rather be for the next 10 years. He is young and only started to make name the last 3 years. Cronje is the most successful captain for RSA ever but I don't think he rate with the best in the world as a batsman.
Alan Donald is a must for a team of the 90's - he almost took 300 test wickets in the 90's and currently is the number 2 rated bowler (number 1 fast bowler). I think nobody really understand what he has done to help RSA test cricket be one of the top 3 teams currently.
Other than Donald, we have a number of players that might make a team of the next 10 years: Pollock, Klusener (only now REALLY starting to bat), Boucher, Kallis, Gibbs. And watch the new speedster Hayward.
Next ten years... well watch out Chris cairns.
11 for the decade hmmm, thats tough but I can give you a list of some greats.
Eric Cantona
Paul Gascoigne
Rivaldo
Gabrielle Batistuta
Tony Adams
Zinidin Zidan
Dennis Bergkamp
Gianluca Pagliuca
Ryan Giggs
Paolo Maldini
Roberto Baggio
Fraudia, I agree with u on that list except...pagliuca??
How on earth did you rate him above Schmeichel and Taffarel? P'gluca can't even perform for his club on a regular basis, forget him being second-choice keeper on the national roster.
btw, good to see that yet another person understands Rivaldo's natural talent over Ronaldo's tap-dancing.
Elmo
yeah peter is a better goalie on the books than pagliuca and so is zubi etc. He I just have a personal affinity for the guy cuz I met him. Plus he played very well back in his world cup apperance. With age and all performance goes down. I unfortunately was limited to 11, which is a very very tough thing to do for football. So many good players out there. Dinn even include one of my personal favs Ian Wright.
Fraudia,
I agree, pagliuca is a class act and had a good wc. His case is a bit like Del piero's, although gluca has a valid reason for the decline, i.e as u mentioned age, wear n tear. Nonethless, he still IS very good between the posts.
CM seems to be almost perfect.
Yet, I'll vote for Donald instead of Waqar;
& as there are already three seamers alongwith the medium-pace of Waugh, I'll certainly go for Saqlain.
Saqlain and Warne will be a deadly combination.