Who is the greatest cricketer of all time?
Batters against bowlers, eras against eras, Tests against the short forms. There is no settling it on paper, so this one is settled by votes: two players at a time, one pick each.
1Don BradmanA Test batting average of 99.94, a figure no other cricketer has come close to.
2Sachin TendulkarOne hundred international centuries and 34,000 runs across a 24-year career.
3Virat KohliThe most prolific chaser in one-day cricket and a batting average above fifty in Tests.
4Jacques KallisMore than 13,000 Test runs and nearly 300 Test wickets in the same career.
5Shane Warne708 Test wickets and the delivery that bowled Mike Gatting in 1993.
6Muttiah Muralitharan800 Test wickets, the most anyone has taken, with an action that was argued about for years.
7Brian LaraHolds the highest individual Test score at 400 not out, and the first-class record at 501.
8Vivian RichardsFaced the fastest bowling of his era without a helmet and averaged over fifty.
9Wasim AkramThe finest left-arm fast bowler in the game's history, with 916 international wickets.
10Garfield SobersBatted, bowled three different styles and fielded anywhere, all at Test standard.
11Ricky PontingCaptained Australia to two World Cups and scored over 27,000 international runs.
12Kumar SangakkaraAveraged over 57 in Tests while also keeping wicket for much of his career.
13AB de VilliersHolds the fastest one-day fifty, hundred and 150, and could bat anywhere in the order.
14Glenn McGrath563 Test wickets built almost entirely on landing the ball in the same spot.
15Imran KhanWon Pakistan the 1992 World Cup as captain and took 362 Test wickets.
16Kapil DevIndia's 1983 World Cup-winning captain and the first to 400 Test wickets.
17Steve SmithThe highest Test batting average of any modern player, built on a technique nobody teaches.
18James AndersonTook over 700 Test wickets and kept playing at the top past his fortieth birthday.
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