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)
