Who is the best wicket keeper in the world at present?
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Undoubtedly MARK BOUCHER, Gilchrist is a woos, and Dhoni would be second
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My first choice is Sunil Gavaskar.\ncricket is a game of patience and strategy when it is played between to test playing nations. \nGavaskar's commentary is very much technical and contains lot of information about how the player is thinking, how the ball behaved, how the batsman could make a shot. His commentary is real treat for lot of budding cricketers.\nThe second one Michael Holding\nHe has a great electronic voice and can build the pressure on the listeners even if is neutral.
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Ravi shastri \nand gary sobers.. \nin first class cricket ... \nin internation cricket this has beeen not happened ..
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Sachin & Sehwag. they are the worlds best .. they contender for opening in any team of world.
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NO DOUBT ITS RAHUL DRAVID.HE CAN PLAY IN ALL CIRCUMSTANSES.IN TEST OR IN ODI HE PERFORMS ALWAYS BEST V/S ALL CONTRY.WE HAVE HEARD OF GOING OUT OF FORM OF PLAYERS,BUT HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT HE IS OUT OF FORM.WHETHER HE WAS A KEEPER OR HE IS A CAPTAIN HE PLAYS HIS OWN GAME WITH NOT AFFECTED BY THIS.
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only one player get more than 1000 wicket in one day plus teat cricket.\nHe is Muthaiya Muralitharan (SRILANKA)\n\nM. Muralitharan  - 1004 (593 + 411)\nShane warne - 952 (659 + 293)\nWasim Akram - 916 (414 + 502)\nGlen Mcgrath - 873 (542 + 331)\nAnil Kumble - 824 (495 + 329)\n\nHey dude, why u r not choosing a best answer.
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He is the best batsman in the world!
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Hi, kashikooler979, From your question it seems that u r a great lover of cricket..\n\nAbout Shane Bond, Yes he is the fastest and accurate bowler in the world of cricket at the moment. His greatest strength is to pitch the ball in the right spot and that to with the high speed and that too with complete accuracy. He hav control on all these qualities at same time. Brett Lee or Shoaib Akhtar are also quicks but they can achieve this right spot+accurate+high speed combination once in say 4-5 matches but not all the time. This makes bond superior. To be a CHAMP of game, the most important thing is to be consistant, Bond is a consistant performer. The only problem for him is the fitness. this is only threat to his career.... due to which he misses more than 2 years of cricket. otherwise his record would seems more impressive....\n\nAnd regarding Ricky Ponting, yes he is at his best in his career. Today again a century... And about your observation of converting 50's to 100's . I also notice that after reading your question and then going through records. He is also a champ.. I like his one quality most, that is he raises his standard of game to very high on a very important match.. Like finals and the situation when australia demands a big innings fron him. He leeds from the front on a very important match. This quality is missing in my favourite sachin tendulkar. He has a very bad record of finals he played.. But ponting's style is different.....
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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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ALL TIME XI\n1.B. Richards(SA) (9 hundreds before lunch - best opener)\n2. S. Gavaskar(IND) (perfect technique, 10K runs as opener!)\n3. D. Bradman(AUS) (99.96 - best batsman of all time)\n4. J. Hobbs(ENG) (toss up with K. Miller, but 61K career runs, cant be wrong!)\n5. G. Sobers(WI) (awesome all rounder)\n6. A. Border(c) (AUS)(toss up with V.Richards, but border is mora aggr. capt.)\n7. A. Gilchrist + (AUS)(there was a couple of others, but his batting gets it)\n8. S. Warne (AUS)(no dispute - best spinner of all time)\n9. D. Lillee (AUS)(Awesome new ball bowler with swing and control)\n10. M. Marshall (WI)(toss up with M.Holding, but I saw more of Marshall)\n11. J. Garner (WI)(My other opening bowler, devestating to face)\n(12.G. McGrath) (AUS)(prob best of modern era, just missed out)\nFor those who think there is an Aussie bias, have a look at the overall win loss of Australia throughout the history of cricket. There is a bias, but it is because in the 130 odd years of Test cricket, there are the most successful team so far.
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1- Ricky Ponting  AUS  \n2-Jacques Kallis  SA   \n3- Brian Lara  WI  \n4-Younis Khan   PAK  \n5- Andy Blignaut   ZIM      \n6-Jacques Kallis  SA      \n7-Shaun Pollock  SA   \n8-Irfan Pathan  IND   \n9-Daniel Vettori  NZ  \n10- Muttiah Muralitharan  SL  \n11- Makhaya Ntini  SA  \n\nsubs- Shane Warne  AUS  \n-Andrew Flintoff  ENG    \n-Shahid Afridi   PAK  \n-Hamilton Masakadza   ZIM  \n\nits all to do with the ratings, Andy Blignaut is brilliant with the bat and ball too need to watch how this guy plays.
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I think the best batsman may be Dhoni(india) or Grame Smith(s.africa) because the play amazingly on flat pitches.(West Indies have flat pitches).\n\nThe best bowler may be Asif(pakistan) or Gillespe(australia).
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Obviously Sachin tendulkar\nHe has heated 1508 fours and 149 sixes in ODI.\nBrian lara is very far from sachin\nHe has scored 935 fours and 110 sixes in ODI.
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Rahul Dravid.\nDespite being Captain his Batting is not affected.Also he comes at # 2 and saves the Indians to lose early wickets.
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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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I'd definately go with Sehwag. He was outstanding with the bat and ball. 180 & 3-33
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Sir Don as the best test batsman of the world\nSachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting best one day batsman.