who is the best hitter in cricket now?
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AFRIDI..LOCAL SIX HITTER.\nJAYASURYA..TOO OLD TO FIND THE BALL.\nGIL CHRIST..SPINOPHOBIAN.\nVIRENDER...SURRENDER TO SHORT-PITCH.\nGAYLE..YOU CANT BELIEVE HIM..\nPOLLOCK..WHAT.? YOU MUST BE JOKING..\n\nDHONI..THE BEST.
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SACHIN.HE IS CLEARLY THE BEST.\nHE HAS THE CONSISTENCY.\nI FIND MORE PATRIOTISM IN SACHIN THAN LARA.\nOFCOURSE, I HOPE YOU DONT MIND THE ONE TIME BIG SCORES..THATS WHY YOU DIDN'T ASK SEHWAG vsLARA.
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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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I don't know about best fast bowler, all I know is that Patrick Allen is the best bowler.<<<observe the period
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SOON...RICKY PONTING..\nPLEASE READ THIS AFTER COUPLE OF MONTHS...;-]
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RAVI SHASTRY.\n\nHE TOOK 60 BALLS TO HIT HIS FIRST 6 RUNS.\n\nATLAST, INDIA LOST TO AUSSIES FOR RUNNING OUT OF BALLS.\n\n{MANJREKAR HITS THE FASTEST 50 OF THE MATCH.}
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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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This is my List!\n1)No doubt, the first place go to Sir Don Bradman. Because Bradman is Bradman\n1)Sachin Tendulkar:- He scores the runs so easily with his elegant technique.\n2)Shane Warne:- words like slider, zooter, back-spinner and toppie never existed - I think it came into the list after Shane Warne. Or just ask Mike Gatting,how Shane Warne bowled England captain Mike Gatting in the first Ashes Test 1993. That's it\n3)Brian Lara:- He is a run machine with all type of shots. Just look at his brilliant knock of 400* proves his class.\n\nRicky Ponting should be in the list, but he is not considered as a gentleman in the Cricket! Cricket is considered as Gentleman's Game (in the field). So he doesn't desrve it.
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1)Graheme Smith\n2)Virender Sehwag\n3)Ricky Pointing\n4)Rahul Dravid\n5)Mohammad Yousuf\n6)Andrew Flintoff\n7)Adam Gilchrist\n8)Shaun Pollock\n9)Shane Warne\n10)Makhaya Ntini\n11)Shoaib Akhtar
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Suresh Raina definitely, but Robin Uthappa may end up in the opening slot one day...too premature to juge him based on just 2 ODI. besides suresh is not a contender for the top order
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No. 1 is Kapil Dev.  Because he made the world to realise  the presence Indians in cricket.\nNo. 2 is Sachin.\nSorry, Gavaskar though one of the best batsmen in the world, is not finding place in my list.\nDhoni, of course, has just started his carrier and has to achieve a lot to be in comparision with the other 3.
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The best batsmen is Inzaman ul Haq, and the best bowler is Shoaib Akhtar\n\nRight now its quite difficult to pick out a bad player - because they are all playing very good cricket...and wow what a super test that was to come back and win against India - wow - incredible...\n\nI'm an Indian fan - but India wilted under akhtar/razzaq/asif attack...
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In my opinion it's Rahul Dravid, but as per the statistics of the recent matches it's Dhoni.
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London: Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday became the world’s top batsman in the ICC one-day rankings with a phenomenal average of 52.76 and an awesome strike-rate of 103.\n\nDhoni, who was placed second behind Ricky Ponting before the two-match one-day series against Pakistan, displaced the Australian captain from the top spot after his fine knock of 59 in the second match in Abu Dhabi.\n\nHowever, the 1-1 honours in the series meant that India and Pakistan remain unchanged in the team championship table, on third and fourth places, respectively.\n\nThe 24-year-old Jharkhand wicketkeeper-batsman, who made his ODI debut in December 2004, has made a remarkably rapid rise with his statistics providing compelling support for his position on top of the ODI charts released by the ICC Thursday.
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'IS THE BEST' MEANS YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT THE CURRENT PLAYER.\nRICKY PONTING IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE BEST.\nAFTER HIM,10 PLACES ARE VACANT..\nNOBODY OCCUPYING THAT SLOTS..
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Mahender Singh Dhoni.\n\nHe is an outstanding batsman. You know his batting average is 55. Which is very good for an young batsmen. He also scored 1000 runs in ODI. After scoring 1000 runs, he is keeping up his batting average. There is his callibre. Also he has a great future. he can overtake the records of Sachin tendulkar. After enormous effect of his wicket keeping, he can bat very very well. That shows his callibre in cricket. So i think he is the No 1 Batsmen.
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Considering the Strike Rate and the Body Language he shows whenever he comes on to bat, The most attacking batsman is - \n\nSHAHID AFRIDI\n\nand then... DHONI\n\nBut The best and the most consistent Attacking Batsman ofcourse is \n\nADAM GILCHRIST\n\nThe Batsman who started it all... \n\nSANATH JAYASURIYA