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Who is the greatest cricket batsman ever?

Bradman or Tendulkar? These players are often labelled as the best ever cricketers, but not everyone will agree. Have your say below, out of this list of 10 top players (in alphabetical order), who do you think is the greatest male cricket batsman to ever play. You also have the option of 'none of the above' - please use the comment form below to send your suggestion of who you think should be on this list. Also vote for the greatest ever bowler! See also our discussion about the greatest cricketers of all time.

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• Lara is not a God, there is one God, but Lara was Blessed by the Creator to be the greatest batsman ever. 'Check out his stats, unbelieveable. The only batsman to score score 100- 200- 300- 400- and 500 runs in first class cricket.Not even the great Bradman can top that. (from Valentine Young, Apr 2013)
• Kumar Sangakkara is the best batsmen and followed by Aravinda de Silva. Kumar always be the best in any form of cricket. That is why he is the number one batsmen for ever. And Aravinda not far behind him. (from Tharindu, Mar 2013)
• The best batsman ever is Sir Viv Richards. Brian Lara is good but not great, great men win matches not score a bunch of useless runs. All sports the best players lead their teams to championships and win it. (from judgement, Mar 2013)
• You will not find players like indians players like these across the globe 1)sachin tendulkar
  2)virender sehwag, 3)rahul dravid, 4)saurav ganguly, 5)anil kumble, 6)vvs laxman, 7)yuvraj singh (from atan tat, Mar 2013)
• Sachin Tendulka is the god of cricket, if you say he is not then you are still a moron when it comes to cricket. Hashim Amla is my best in South Africa. I'm Zimbabwean but our country sucks in cricket. Help! (from patience zimbabwe, Mar 2013)
• It is Rahul Dravid followed by Bradman, Sachin and Lara (from Gokul Nath, Mar 2013)
• Brian lara should be the top batsman of all time
• Sachin tendukar is the greatest ,considering from every angle possible (from darshil gupta, Feb 2013)
• I think Javed Miandad is on of world cricket ... (from Babar Ali, Feb 2013)
• As a crickter i think shane watson is the best cricketer in the world. (from peerat rana, Feb 2013). the best test team sinc 1990, is:
  1-methu hyden
  2-virendra sehwag
  3-rahul dravid
  4-brian lara (c)
  5-sachin tendulkar
  6-adam gillcrisht
  7-shoun pollock
  8-anil kumble
  9-dale styne
  10-Glan mcgrarth
  11-andy radick.
• When sachin bats, bowler is in stress. When sachin hits four, everyone wants to know score. When sachin is free, he score century. When sachin going to take catch, then batsman come in stress. When bowler bowls yorker, then god hits helicopter. Now, sachin has taken a dangerous CATCH jumping from the boundary in air and India won the world cup test MATCH. Thanks. (from Anupam bhai, Jan 2013)
• Why it is very easy to understand that sachin is great batsman of all time.  answer: becoz every bowler make plan to out sachin at any cost, but in don times bowlers don't know how to bowl doosra, teesra, carom ball. But sachin had faced these kind of ball and made hundred hundred centuries. (from Doosra, Jan 2013)
• Best bats man ever: 1 sahin tendulkar, 2 sachin tendulkar, 3 sachin tendulkar, 4sachin tendulkar, 5 sachin tendulkar, 6 sachin tendulkar, 7 sachin tendulkar, 8 sachin tendulkar, 9 virat kohli, 10 ms dhoni, 11 suman kumar. (from suman, Jan 2013)
• The best batsmen ever is Dhoni, he should be the captain of the india for ever (from adnan, Jan 2013)
• best technic player in the world : dravid (from peram subbareddy, Jan 2013)
• If you take Test and ODI in contention together, then Sachin is a clear winner over his contemporarys. Yes, Don, Hammond never got a chance to play the limited over game.. but then you never know how they would have coped with present day cricket where you have to travel round the year, play on different pitches and conditions, also reshuffle yourself continuously between odi and Test mode. (from Haimanta Dawar B, Dec 2012)
• Who has temperament who made twice time world record one time history of cricket 375,400,501 no one in the world cricket touch his record actuly he is the inventor of cricket he is the cricket father of brad man, tundulker even any player of world cricket whats style technique only and lonely brain Charles Lara Lara ... lara (from Salern sheikh, Dec 2012)
• If you don't think Bradman is the best then you are an idiot. (from god, Nov 2012)
• s.tandulcer b.lara, j.kallis, r.pontig, k.pietersen h.amla best cricketer of the world and v.kholi lovely cricketer in long long time odi t20 test aal part of cricket (from t.h.chishty, Nov 2012)
• best batsman in world sachin tendulkar any time any moment he also play bigest player in world (from suresh, Nov 2012)
• Sachin ek samudra aur kohli us samudra ka ek katra hai (from Ved punit, Nov 2012)
• Sehwag is the best cricketer (from Jaskaran, Nov 2012)
• The best batsman would be the one who cares for cricket in passion so the list(from Fayaz - yes I am a Sri lankan)
  1)sir bradsman
  2) Rahul dravid
  3) sr tendulkar
  4) kc sangakarra
  5) brain Lara
  6)Sanath jayasuriya
  7)viv Richards
  8)Ricky ponting
  9) hashim amla
  10) inzamamul huq
  11) dmpd jayawardena.
• Dhoni must give up his captainship to kohli his luck has been over.virendhar sehwag is the best batsman ever in world cricket.he score double century in odi and triple century in test.he will surely break brain Lara record of 400 in test.proud to be viru fan viru rockz ... viru rockzz ... sehwag rockz ... virendhar sehwag always rockz ... (from viru great fan, Oct 2012)
• We all know lara is the best batmans of all time but ppl don't want to rate him now we have a man like gayle lara didsay gayle will break his record (from rondell de world boss gaza, Oct 2012)
• Sehwag is the greatest batsman of world cricket. (from Sumith.v.s, Oct 2012)
• In my view Sachin Tendulkar will always be the greatest cricketer of all time both in the ODI and Test match. (from Chitta Ranjan Bora, Sept 2012)
• Don bradman is the gratest  cricketr of allthe time because his average is unbelieble (99.94) nobody can do this (from Raj, Sept 2012)
• Yes sachin is best cricketer in the world bradman is not great because don is only 20 bowler meet and izmam,lara,ganguly,kumbe,rahuldravid,laxam,poting,kallish.and jaysurya and next hero of world cricket VIRAT KOHLI and next time is kohli's time. (from Neeraj mehar, Sept 2012)
• Most dangerous batsmen ever in cricket history. (from NANDUN, Sept 2012)
  1.sir viv Richards.
  2.Sanath Jayasuriya.
  3.Adam Gilchrist
  4.Virendra Sewag
  5.Chris Gayle.
  6.Shahid Afridi.
  7.Andrew Symomds
  8.Andrew Flintoff
  9.Aravinda de Silva
  10.Hershal Gibbs
  11.Brendon McCullem.
  12.Saeed Anwer.
  13.Kevin Pieterson.
  14.Yuvaraj Singh
  15.Lance Klusner.
  16.Inzamam ul Haq
  17.TM.Dilshan.
  18.David Warner.
  19.Tamim Iqbal.
  20.Shane Watson.
  21.Gautham Gambhir.
  22.MS.Dhoni.
  23.Kamran Akmal.
  24.Shakib al Hasan
  25.Eoin Morgan.
• BEST TEST TEAM EVER. (from SAMURDI srilankan, Sept 2012)
  1.Brian Lara.
  2.Sachin Tendulkar.(cap)
  3.sir.Don Bradman.
  4.Kumar Sangakkara.(wk)
  5.sir Viv Richards.
  6.Jack Kallis.
  7.sir Garfield Sobers.
  8.Shane Warne.
  9.Wasim Akram.
  10.Joel Garner.
  11.Muththiah Muralitharan.
  12.sir Richard Hadlee
  13.Courteny Ambrose.
  14.Ricky ponting.
  15.Adam Gilchrist.
• BEST T20 TEAM EVER. (from KELUM. SriLankan, Sept 2012)
  1.Chris Gayle.
  2.Kevin Pietersen.
  3.Brendon McCullum.
  4.David Warner.
  5.Eoin Morgan.
  6.AB de Villiers.(cap)
  7.Shane Watson.
  8.Jacob Oram.
  9.Lasith Malinga.
  10.Ajantha Mendis
  11.Saeed Ajmal.
• What about Jacques Kallis? He has better Avs than Tendulkar and better bowling stats than Zaheer Khan.and also he can bowl 140+. but Indian put him in the allrounder group in the hope of putting Tendulkar in the best batsman place.when good batsman ferform good in the bawling department everbody forgets his batting.then he labeles just a allrounder. KALLIS'S batting records are enough to elect him as a best batsman.but Indians label Kallis as one of the greatest allrounders then they can put tendulkar in the top of the batsmen list. (from VANDERBURG.RSA, Sept 2012)
• I THINK U ONLY PUBLISH TENDULKAR'S FRIENDLY COMMENTS (from MAN WHO HAS NOT JUSTICE, Sept 2012)
• Tendulkar is a great batsman.he scored hundreds in perth and sydeny at the age of 15. it's incredible. WORLD MOST BOARING COMMENTATORS EVER!(when they are in commentry box most of the srilankans used to mute the TV and listen to the radio. (from  Jayasekara. SriLankan, Sept 2012)
  1.Sanath Jayasuriya.
  2.Russel Arnold.(not only boaring he does not know how to say 'JAYAWARDENE'as a srilankan it's so embaracing.
  3.Ranjith Fernando.
  4.Arun Lal.
  5.Sunil Gavaskar.
  6.Robin Jackman
  7.Damien Fleming.
  8.David Loyd.
  9.Alan Wilkins.
  10.Nasser Hussain
• Sachin is always best player of all time ,when he was coming to play cricket at the just 16 year,his jorney is not ended till (from Babasab takatrao, Aug 2012)
• Stylishness Dravid, Azaruddin, Sheer power Sachin, Don, Gilchrist, Yuvraj, Afridi, Viv Richards
  Wristiness Vishwanath, Laxman, Scoring runs Kambli, Sachin, Ponting, Don Bradman, Lara.
  The King: Don Bradman. The Prince: Brian Lara (from sam, Aug 2012)
• Tendulkar is god of the god. Murali is not a Tamil.he is RAJAFUCKSE'S nai who lick his ugly sinhala ass.we ill teach a good lesson bloody filthy fucking sinhala  rascals after combining sirilanka's north and east province to chennai and establish own great tamilian country called 'GREAT TAMIL ELAM' and hang RAJAFUCKSE'S all nai. gunathilaka amma uka! (from Pthmanadan, Chennai, Aug 2012)
• Sachin is the god of cricket ever ! But also their is one name of talented cricketer who can reach the nearer to the records of the boss(sachin) and that person is 'VIRAT KOHLI'.He should also glitter in the test cricket,then only watch the picture of 'VIRAT' centuries. (from Parvej mujawar, Aug 2012)
• Tendulkar is the best . but now MS Dhoni takes the place of him. now he takes the indian cricket to his hand. he can talk wel.and he is clearing path for his own cricket kindom.Dhoni is not like to play with him. because he is old now. and DHONI condemn Gambhir and Sehwag for their fielding. in the IPL tendulkar is just a player.Ravi Shashtri,Gavaskar,Bhogle,Shiva wants to win Dhoni. they hate sehwag's running between wickets etc. but Manjekar is a lonely man. he is out of commentry box most of the time. Dhoni's favourits are Ashwin and Jadeja , Vijay, Raina. they are dhoni's pets . so sehwag lost the place for VIJAY.Harbhajan not even 15 for Ashwin. Irfan sacrifice his cricket life for Jadeja. UV singh out of team one time for Raina.now he does n't like Gambhir for his fielding. and one time kick off zaheer for praveen,yadav for vinay . he wants to control the indian cricket but Gambhir slap him through the win of ipl. he is the richest cricketer but TENDULKAR is and will richest among the indians hearts ever! (from Ambani, 16 Aug 2012)
• Tendulkar will always be the greatest cricketer of all time both in the 50 over game and test., His records speaks for itself. There is no denying,.Its about time everyone admits he really is the greatest ever (from Kidley, 11 Aug 2012)
• TOP BATSMEN EVER? (list from Gunathilaka, Srilankan, Aug 2012)
  1.B.Lara(232inns.  11953runs Ave.52.88
  2.SIR Bradman(80inns   6973runs Ave.99.94
  3.SIR.Sobers  (160 inns 8032 Ave.57.78
  4. Sir viv Richards 
  5.WR.Hammond (140inns 7249runs Ave.58.45
  6.RG Pollock (41inns 2256runs Ave.60.97
  7.J.Kallis (260inns 12607runs Ave.57.3
  8.KF.Barrington (131inns 6806runs Ave.58.67
  9.L.Hutton 138inns 6971runs Ave.56.67
  10.SR.Tendulkar 311inns 15470inns Ave.55.44
  11.J.miandad 189inns 8829runs Ave.52.57
  12.GS.Chappell (151inns 7110runs Ave.53.86
  13.R.Ponting (282inns 13346runs Ave.52.75
  14.K.Sangakkara (189inns 9872runs Ave.56.7
  15.M.Yousuf (156inns 7525runs Ave.52.29
  16. R.Dravid (286inns 13288runs Ave.52.31
  17. Y.KHAN 138inns 6565 Ave.51.59                
  18. A.Border 265inns 11774runs Ave.50.56
  19. J.Trott 57inns  2605runs 51.67
• KHOLI is the best  DHONI MUST HAND OVER THE CAPTAINCY TO KHOLI. he can talk like a hero but all the hardwork alway do by kholi and gambhir. (from MALIA, July 2012)
• SACHIN is a little master . KHOLI is a GREAT MASTER. Kholi must CAPTAIN INDIA as soon as possible. (from AMITHAB, July 2012)
• Muhammad yousaf  the best batsman of the world (July 2012)
• yes after him only any one can, his god of cricket, i love rahul too (from chiru, July 2012)
• In my view vivian Richards is the all time greatas a batsman. It was his style of batting that added the flare ofexcitement intop class stroke making in a 5 day long test matchgame. However, in subtle stroke play Sachin is ahead of any one thatever held a cricket bat in hand (from Pradeep, July 2012)
• If you look at in this perspective how much pressure and the hope of billion people Sachin carried on his shouldiers and still performed at his best.Then Sachin is the Best player to have ever played cricket. (from Amit Chauhan, July 2012)
• Bradman, lara, kallis, yosouf, miandad, ponting - all are just like grasses under a massive banyan tree,i.e.sachin tendulkar who has dominated cricket far better than bradman.so for all u pakistani, australians, english it is better to be quiet. (from pbp, May 2012)
• Javeed Miandad was one of the best batsman in cricket history (from shahnam jahanzaib, April 2012)

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