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Dravid, India’s greatest cricketer of all times ?
Hmm…..this should provide fodder for much analysis, controversy, over-excited chest-thumping and perhaps even a motion or two tabled in the parliament. I am expecting blogs and newsgroups to explode with raw emotional anger from hordes of fanatical keyboard warriors who are either die-hard Tendulkar or Dravid fans (could be a few Gavaskar or Ganguly fans there as well).
A cricketing website had performed some sort of an in-depth analysis of the performance of Indian cricket players in the last 77 years and come up with a ranking, which runs thus:
- Rahul Dravid
- Sunil Gavaskar
- Virender Sehwag
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Kapil Dev
- Bishen Bedi-BS Chandrasekhar-EAS Prasanna (as one bowling unit)
- GR Vishwanath
- Anil Kumble
- Vinoo Mankad
- VVS Laxman
- Sourav Ganguly
- Md. Azharuddin
- Dilip Vengsarkar
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Vijay Hazare
- Subhash Gupte
- Polly Umrigar
- Javagal Srinath
A very basic description of their rationale (detailed reading requires registration):
So, here then are the parameters of our ranking.
- Overall consistency.
- Performances abroad, in matches away, outside the player’s comfort zone; in different pitch/ weather conditions.
- Performances in matches won – usually a good indicator to a player’s true value in a team.
- Match-winning ability – the solo contribution a player makes in winning efforts and how often he makes them.
- Match situations taken into account to determine how a player performs under pressure.
Let the fun begin.
