WATCH - From Sachin Tendulkar to Allan Donald, India and New Zealand players name their favorite Test cricketer

The video posted by ICC featured the likes of Rishabh Pant, R Ashwin, and Jasprit Bumrah.

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India and New Zealand cricketers, who are playing the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) final named their favorite Test cricketers. India's wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant said Australia's Adam Gilchrist is his pick as he used to watch him as a kid.

Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah was inspired by the bowling of ex-Australia fast bowler Glenn McGrath and he looked up to him, while off-spinner R Ashwin said Sachin Tendulkar made him fall in love with the game.

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Along with Ashwin, New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman BJ Watling and Indian speedster Ishant Sharma also named Sachin as their favorite Test cricketer.

New Zealand's Colin de Grandhomme named Andrew Symonds as his favorite Test cricketer. His teammate Neil Wagner is a huge admirer of South African great Allan Donald. Notably, Wagner is South Africa-born and he moved to New Zealand for cricket.

Cheteshwar Pujara has three favorite cricketers in Test cricket and all of them are from India. He named Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, and Sourav Ganguly.

 

 
 

By - 20 Jun, 2021

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