who is the most prolific cricketer of this century?
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Muralitharan.. 1000+ wickets..\nSAchin...27000+ runs
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In the history of cricket there is only 6 people to have scored 30 or more centuries, and they avg 100-150 matches, for top players the ratio is around 7-15%\n\nInterestingly of people to score 11 test centuries there is only 12 people! In the entire history, that seems quite rare, and rember thesse people are the cream of the history of plyers, they can spend their entire carears playing avg, 50-80 tests\n\nWhen looking at the stats the conversion rates of around 5-15% of all matches turn to centuries.  Than in a match there are probally 6 reconized batsman with chances 5-15%, i will assume that each team has a 30-40% chance of scoring a century, so total chacne of scoring a century is around 80% per every match, which is quite high, but rember that there are alot of batman, in the team so there are alot of chances, that go missing.
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One of the five greatest cricketers of all time.Others are Bradman,Sobers,Viv Richards & Muralitharan.
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Adam Gilchrist of Australia is number 1 followed by Mahender Singh Dhoni of India and then by Ricky Ponting of Australia
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No doubt about it. In the past, Jim Laker of England. He once took 19 Australian wickets in one test match. As an Englishman, it grieves me to say that the best today is Shane Warne. Need proof?... look up his stats.
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The best cricketer alive has got to be Sachin Temdulkar.\nThe best ever could be Sir Donald Bradman.
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The top 5 are\n\n35 - Sachin Tendulkar, India (132 matches)\n34 - Sunil Gavaskar, India (125 matches)\n34 - Brian Lara, West Indies (130matches)\n32 - Steve Waugh, Australia (168 matches)\n32 - Ricky Ponting, Australia (106 matches)\n\nAt the rate Ponting is going he will soon take over - he has scored another one in the current test so that takes him to 33.
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SACHIN RAMESH TENDULKAR.\nTHE PLAYER GOT ALMOST, 24OOO RUNS.\nJUST THINK.\nHE RUN 24K TIMES FOR HIM AND MORE OR LESS RUN ANOTHER 24K TIMES FOR HIS PARTNERS.\nIS HE NOT THE BEST.???
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Never out in 90s. His closest century misses are:\n\nGot out on 89 vs. England in 1948 (Lords)\nGot out on 187 vs. England in 1946 (Brisbane)\nGot out on 185 vs. India in 1947 (Brisbane)
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GREAT CRICKETER.....COMMERCIALLY TOO.
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After watching him for the last 3 days Ricky Ponting will get the most runs... 250 runs in one test so far but Langer is going well to... Go Australia.... Aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi Aussie oi Aussie oi Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi...
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For Test match-Ricky Ponting is no.1\nFor ODI ranking- M.S. Dhoni is no.1
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Wow, this really made me rush out and search for the answer. Here it is:\n\nThe first is Saurav Ganguly. 88 matches, 5221 runs. 12 test centuries, never lost the match in which he hit them.\n\nThe second is Gundappa Vishwanath. 91 matches, 6080 runs. 14 test centuries, never lost the match in which he hit them.\n\nKapil Dev comes a close third. 8 centuries, just one test lost against South Africa (1992-1993). Includes a century in the Madras tied test in 1986.
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Sachin Tendulkar.. 16 yrs of int. crickets.. with lots n lots of records in his name.. n still going very strong! \n JAI TENDULKAR
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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar - born 24 April 1973 was rated in an article by Wisden in 2002 as the second greatest Test batsman ever, after Sir Don Bradman. He holds several key batting records, including the most Test centuries, most ODI centuries and the most runs in ODI cricket. He is also the most capped player currently playing international cricket. He received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour, for 1997-1998, and the civilian award Padma Shri in 1999. Tendulkar was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997.\n\nNo doubt all the three batsmen mentioned by you are amount the best. Sachin would have gone far with his batting and records but unfortunately he is having one problem or other physically. Still I considr him as best. Lara and ponting are also very good.-
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The 35 centuries will be definitely be overtaken within a year. The most likely to do that would be Ricky Ponting - younger than Tendulkar and already has 31 tons to his credit. Tendulkar, unfortunately isn't scoring test centuries as frequently as before. He has scored just 4 centuries in the past 4 years (One against Bangladesh). In the same period, Ponting has scored 17 centuries. I have a feeling that even Lara (32 test centuries) would go past Tendulkar. \n\nComing to ODIs, Tendulkar has almost double the number than his closest rival (40 vs. 22 centuries). I don't see any current player (Including young talents like Tharanga) to reach close to 45 centuries (Possibly where Tendulkar would end up). \n\nBut then, records are meant to be broken. With more matches coming up against minnows, somebody will eventually get to that ODI record. My guess is it will be an hugely talented opener from a subcontinent team  - they play more ODI matches in easier batting conditions. I think the ODI record will be intact for at least the next 10 years.
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I believe Sir Don Bradman was/is the best batsman in the world, he cant be no less than the best with a test average of 99.4....asked to chose from the above 5 ....Sachin Tendulkar gets my vote....he might be out of form at times , but his records are there to prove his worth.\nsachin10dulkar@yahoo.com :)