For ICC ,Tendulkar not an all-time great cricketer by CricketArchive Staff Reporter

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Player:

SR Tendulkar

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DateLine: 15th January 2009

 

Sachin Tendulkar, the highest run-scorer in both forms of the game, has been excluded from the list of ICC though Sangakkara and Mike Hussey figure in Top 20. The ICC All-time Test Player Rankings has no place for Sachin Tendulkar in the top 20. Surprisingly, Kumar Sangakkara figures at the sixth spot while Mike Hussey is placed at 17. Even Dudley Nourse and Doug Walters are ahead of Sunil Gavaskar, the only Indian who figures in the last--at the bottom (20). Not just cricket fans but critics are also surprised at the omission of Tendulkar.

 

Bradman tops the list followed by Len Hutton, Jack Hobbs, Ponting, Peter May, Clyde Walcott, Viv Richards, Gary Sobers, Kumar Sangakkara, Matthew Hayden, Mohammad Yousuf, Jacques Kallis, Graeme Pollock, Everton Weekes, Neil Harvey and Denis Compton.

 

In the list of Top 20 One Day Players, Zaheer Abbas is at number 2 while Tendulkar gets the 12th slot. The top player is Viv Richards. No other Indian batsman has found place in the top 20.

 

Matthew Hayden who retired from cricket is among the all-time greats of the game according to the ICC Player Rankings. Hayden has finished his career in 10th position, equal with South Africa's Jacques Kallis, in the all-time ICC Test player rankings. His highest Test rating of 935 came during the Ashes series in 2002-03. In the one-day rankings, Hayden is 18th in the all-time ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen with a career-high ranking of 854 points

 

Only 25 batsmen in the history of the game have amassed 900 rating points or more in Test cricket, while only 20 passed the 850-point mark in the ODIs. Hayden has received the rankings during the 103 Test he played for Australia. He scored 8,625 runs at an average of 50.73, including 30 centuries and 29 fifties. His highest score of 380 against Zimbabwe at the WACA in 2003 was a world record at the time.

 

The Queenslander's ODIs figures are just as impressive he played 161 ODIs, scoring 6,133 runs at an average of 43.80. In 2007 he won the ODI Player of the Year.