Who Is The Best

Who is the best?

A question which arises through all the cricket fanatics head is a simple yet by large the most debatable one is, Who is the best cricket of all time.

Some with in a second would give the answer as “Sachin” for his records, there are other who talk about the elegance of “Lara”, the ruthlessness of a “Pointing”, Impact of a “Kallis”, Unbreakable technique of a “Dravid” or the Average of a “Sir Don”.

There are legends of the game who have come and gone. Legends who stood their ground and played out of their skin to either dent the opposition or to deny a win. Some of them have even left scars in bowlers hearts and minds too. But does these attribute gives them the tag of a best batsman of all time name. This is again a debatable topic. There are many people who fight and ponder upon there hero’s name to be the best. People bring examples about how great player have said what about one and other player during their interview and so on. A Lara says for him Pointing was the Best batsmen whom he respected among the opponent, Sachin says he felt Kallis was the most impact player of all and so on so forth.

There are other theories too a Lara broke down when all the pressure of batting was on him, same could be the case with Pointing. Pointing to his own admission mentioned it was the pressure which got the best of him rather than form when he retired. Sachin on the other hand had to carry the pressure of the biggest cricket watching population in the world and he did it for 24 years. Dravid was always played with a tag of being not so gifted player like all others around the world. He had to slog like a mule day in and day out to be what he is to date. Kallis was the endurance machine for his country with both bat and bowl. Lara and pointing were the gifted lot, everything they touched turned to gold.

There are other arguments among commoners like, Sir Don only played against a type of opponents and never against the spinners on a spin friendly tracks. But we should not forget he played in an era were there were no covers for pitches, high quality protective gear and bats like we have for the past 15 odd years. But still he has an amazing average that can only be dreamed in today's world of cricket

.

So all this brings us to on simple question. Who is the best Batsman of all time. For me it is not a single person of the above. In this case it has to be taken in correlation with the Hindu Religion were we don’t have one single God rather many of them from one region to another. For me all these players are Gods and have made what Cricket in the religion today is.