BEST CRICKETER IN WORLD – TOP 10 MOST FAMOUS CRICKETER

There were many great players in the history of cricket. In this article, we see the Best cricketer in world. Cricket is not played globally or it's may not be a global sport. This sport is played in only a few countries but still, it's the 2nd most popular sport in the world.

In cricket history, so many popular and famous cricketers are there. Let's start with the top 10 best cricketers in world or the most famous cricketer in the world.

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Best Cricketer In World -

10. Brian Lara - West Indies

9. Brett Lee - Australia

8. Lasit Malinga - Shrilanka

7. Shahid Afridi - Pakistan

6. Chris Gayle - West Indies

5. Virat Kohli - India

4. Ricky Ponting - Australia

3. AB de Villiers - South Africa

2. M. S. Dhoni - India

1. Sachin Tendulkar - India

Many cricket lovers ask a question, Who is the best cricketer in world. So here I give a list of the best cricketer in the world. These cricket players having great performances and fame in all formats of cricket in Test, ODI, and T-20. In every category like batting, fielding, and bowling.

If you didn't like or do not agree to this list. If you want some changes to the list so feel free to contact me and leave a comment and I will try my best to give u better information.

10. Brian Lara - West Indies

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West Indies international cricket player Brain Lara is popularly known as 'The Prince' as a nickname. He deserves his place in the list of best cricketers in world.

Lara is one of the popular and greatest cricketers in cricket history. In cricket history, Lara holds several records in his name. Out of all these records, the record of 400 runs in a Test match is very popular and no one has been able to break it yet. The match is against England in 2004 at Antigua.

He also scores 375 runs in an inning. Lara also plays very well in ODI and holds lots of ODI'S records. On the basis of Lara's popularity and records, he is present in this list at number 10.

Lara is also featured in our "Cricket Records- Top 10 unbeatable records" list.

9. Brett Lee - Australian Best cricketer in world

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Brett Lee is an Australian international cricket player. Superfast brett lee, the nickname is 'Binga'. He is the second world fastest bowler in the world after Shoaib Akhtar. He is the best fielder and a useful lower-order batsman for the Australian team.

Together with Mike Hussey, Brett Lee holds the best highest 7th wicket partnership for Australia in ODIs since 2005-2006 with 123 runs. He is also a popular bowler and handsome player of that time. So he is a number 9th in best cricketer in the world list.

8. Lasith Malinga - Srilanka

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Malinga is a Srilankan international cricket player. He is a very popular and famous fast bowler cricketer in the world because of his rare round-arm action. His action known as sling action and so he nicknamed because of its action is "Slinga Malinga".

Malinga bowling is a very crazy style and especially his swing yorker is most famous especially in death and last overs. He is the only bowler in the world to take two world cup hat-tricks, and the only bowler to take 3 ODIs hat-tricks.

Instead of that record, he is the only player to take Four wickets in four consecutive balls. So many batsmen struggling to play Malinga's bowling. He bowls on an avg. 135 to 150 km/h. Malinga is very much populer so he stays on my list in the 8th number.

7. Shahid Afridi - Pakistan Best Cricketer

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Shahid is the Pakistan international most famous cricket player. Shahid is especially known as "Boom Boom Afridi" around the cricket world and "LALA" among its teammates. He is famous in cricket history because of his aggressive batting style. Afridi holds the record for the fastest 100 runs in ODI in just 37 balls against Srilanka.

Afridi hits maximum sixes (323) and the longest six in ODI history. He hits the longest ever six in ODI against South Africa. Instead of that, he is 3rd highest wicket-taker in T20 cricket. Afridi is the only international cricket ODI player to make more than 8000+ runs and take more than 390 wickets in cricket history. Afridi is a very populer cricketer in the world so he is the number 7th on this list.

6. Chris Gayle - West Indies

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Gayle is a West Indies international most popular cricket player. In the cricket world, he is known as "The Universal Boss or The Boss" as a nickname. Gayle is the very coolest west indies cricket player. He hits so many Huge and maximum sixes on his name.

Chris Gayle is one of the four cricket players to scores two times Trippel centuries in test cricket history. He is the only player to scores 175 runs in T20 cricket history this is the unbeatable T20 cricket score.

Gayle is a very populer and famous cricketer for his unique dancing style. Chris Gayle is also featured in our "Cricket Records- Top 10 unbeatable records" list.

5. Virat Kohli - India-Best cricketer in world

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Virat Kohli is an Indian professional international cricket player. He is a captain of the recent Indian team in all formats. "Chiku" is a nickname of Virat Kohli given by M.S.Dhoni. Virat is the most famous cricketer nowadays, because of his aggressiveness. He plays very well in all formats and one day he will break the Sachins hundred records.

Virat is a very handsome and energetic player so his fan followers are in millions. Because of his performance and records, he is one of the most populer cricketers in the world.

4. Ricky Ponting - Australia

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Ponting is an Australian international cricket player. He is the foremost successful captain in cricket history. Australia won the 2003 and 2007 ICC ODI world cup under the captaincy of Ricky Ponting. He is the most successful captain in cricket history with 220 victories in 324 matches. The winning ratio is 67.91%.

Ponting is popular because of his aggressive performance and also his batting performance. On the basis of fan followers and records of Ponting, he is a number 4h in this list.

3. AB. de. Villiers - South Africa

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AB. de. Villiers is a South African international cricketer. The nickname of ABD is Mr. 360. The name is Mr. 360 because of his ability to hit balls in every direction of the grounds. ABD is the most famous and most popular cricketer in world history.

He holds the record on his name of fastest 50, 100, and 150 in ODI cricket with avg. is above 50 and strike rate is above 100. ABD's full name is Abraham Benjamin de Villiers.

 AB. de. Villiers is very popular and famous and the coolest cricketer in the world. He is the best cricketer in the world and hence he is in number 3rd in this list.

2. M.S.Dhoni-India-Best cricketer in world

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Dhoni is an Indian international cricketer. Nickname is "Mahi". He is a very popular and famous cricketer, captain, and the world's fastest Wicket keeper. He deserves a second place in the world's best cricketers list.

Dhoni is the most successful and most populer captain on the Indian cricket team. He is the foremost successful captain of CSK in IPL. Indian team won all major champions league under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

M. S. Dhoni receives many awards like "Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Padma Sri" which is Indias fourth highest civilian award. Dhonis's fan base is all over the world and he is the most famous cricketer in cricket history.

1. Sachin Tendulkar - India

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Sachin Tendulkar is an Indian international cricket team player. Nickname is "Master Blaster". Sachi is the leading run-scorer in ODI and Test cricket history. He holds the record for highest runs and highest Century in cricket history.

Sachin is one of the most successful cricketers in the world also knows as "The God Of Cricket". He is the first player to score 200* runs(Not Out) in ODI. Sachin is also featured in our "Cricket Records- Top 10 unbeatable records" list.

He is a very populer and loyal cricketer in cricket history everyone across the world loves Sachin and because of his popularity he deserves First place in "Best cricketer in world".

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