Sachin Tendulkar Virender Sehwag inzamam Ul Haq Aravinda De Silva Jacques Kallis Mathew Hayden MS Dhoni - WK C Shaun Pollock Chaminda Vaas Muthiah Muralidharan Glenn Mcgrath
My best ODI CRICKET team ever is as follows: 1. Sachin Tendulkar 2. Adam Gilchrist (Wicket keeper) 3. Ricky Ponting 4. Vivian Richards 5. Kevin Pietersen 6. A.B.De Villers 7. Jacques Kallis 8. Shane Warne (Captain) 9. Wasim Akram 10.Brett Lee 11.Lasith Malinga 12th man: Jhonty Rhodes
ToI is condusting a poll to vote 4 the World's Greatest Sports Personality ....the list includes 12 names...
The biggest joke is the list misses the names as Sergei BUbka,Wayne Gretzki,Yelena Isniabayeva, Lin Dan , Micheal Phelps.. .. The bigger joke is between Sachin and Dhyan Chand, there are 81% votes. This shows how ridiculous this poll is. Only 19% amongst Federer, Pele, Ali, Carl Lewis and the rest of the non-Indian nominees. LOL. This is a poll with a lot of credibility.
One more thing, you can vote as many times as possible...so schin fans will be doing this till ToI closes this polling...
Re: BIggest Joke of 2010 ....
by bango tango on Dec 24, 2010 12:53 PM
A few sportspersons like Federer, Johnson, Pele etc. are included in the list. I am not sure whether it is going to the world audience or confined only to India. Cricket is not known to 95% of the countries in the world. It is an 8-nation game. India is cricket crazy and we are obsessed with the game and Tendulkar's achievements. Naturally, all Indians will vote for him and he will win hands down. But is it a true reflection of real greatness? After all, most of the others in the list of TOI ( I do not remember the complete list) have played or are playing global games unlike cricket which is confined to just 8 countries. So, how far it is correct to even conduct such a poll? In our own country, even the achievements of the likes of Bindra (Olympic gold), Vishwanathan Anand (multiple world championship played by many more countries than cricket) will definitely rank higher. However, as everything is media driven and popularity driven, you have to perhaps bow to that and say, `Tendulkar is the greatest ever sportsman', even if you are not convinced of the same!
