No Indian in Jacques Rudolph's all-time best list; Ponting and Shoaib Akhtar included

He picked Gary Kirsten and AB de Villiers as a best coach and fielder respectively.

Rudolph picked Jacques Kallis as the best ever player while Ponting as best captain | Getty Images

Former South African cricketer Jacques Rudolph has recently come up with the list of some of the best players he shared a field with and played against both on a domestic and international level in his cricketing career that spanned between 1997-2017.

In his international career, Rudolph represented South Africa in 48 Test matches, 45 ODI and one T20I, in which he scored 2,622 runs with a top score of 222 not out, 1174 and 6 runs respectively. He has had a great domestic career, scoring 19885 First-class runs and 10285 List-A runs along with 4016 t20 runs.

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The left-hander had spent his final days of cricketing days at the English County Championship side Glamorgan before calling time on his career from all form of the game in 2017.

Well, the 38-year-old played with and against the number of cricket legend in his career but he shortlisted likes Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting, Andrew Flintoff, Kumar Sangakkara, Shoaib Akhtar, and AB de Villiers as some of the best players he played with and against in his career.

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The surprising thing was that he has not named a single Indian player in his list despite Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Sourav Ganguly are considered one of the best legends of the past era.

Check out here the full list:

Best player ever: Jacques Kallis

Best captain played against: Ricky Ponting

Best captain: Graeme Smith/Gerald Dros

Seam bowler: Andrew Flintoff

Swing bowler: James Anderson

Fast bowler: Shoaib Akhtar

Spinner: Muttiah Muralitharan

Best batsman: Kumar Sangakkara

Best innings: AB de Villiers

Best wicketkeeper: Kruger van Wyk

The big hitter: Albie Morkel

The blocker: Andrew White

Best No 11: Paul Harris

Best catcher: Martin van Jaarsveld

Best arm: Marchant de Lange

Top fielder: AB de Villiers

Best sledger: Pierre de Bruyn

Best coach: Gary Kirsten/Eric Simons

Favorite ground: Scarborough (Yorkshire)

Joker: Anthony McGrath

Favorite partnership: Henry Davids

Take to war: Roelof van der Merwe.

(With sacricketmag.com Inputs)

 
 

By Rashmi Nanda - 30 Mar, 2020

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