Jarrod Kimber's list- 9.Sobers 8.Richards 5.Lara

Most batters just do their best, yet the top players create art. It is physically impossible to face an 80mph delivery and track it with your eyes, yet the greatest batters do more than just watch the ball, they can see into the future.

This book is about the batters who see what mortals don't: Javed Miandad purposefully making errors to manipulate the field; Sachin Tendulkar digging up a pitch to take on Warne; Shivnarine Chanderpaul practising non-stop on a beach until he mastered his technique; and Joe Root playing against spin as a result of three random events. Others, such as Smith, Pietersen and Richards, carried on the work of a man 100 years before their time

tendulkar has better technique that lara. but tendulkar is not a better batsman than tendulkar.

this list only covers the dying format of the game.

what do they know of cricket who only cricket know

Starc was all over Chris Gayle in what seemed like an ego-off. In one over, he almost had him caught twice, had him reprieved for a caught-behind after a snick off the stump rather than the bat, and had an lbw decision given and then rescinded. That he finally got his man - albeit with a ball that should have been delivered as a free hit - seemed like a deserved wicket. With Gayle gone, Australia always seemed to have a sniff.

Didn't know that Bradman and Sobers played t-20