Who is the best cricketter in the world ever?

Viv Richards

According to all the info circulating after the last SA-India test it has to be one of the following:

Du Plessis,

Duminy. 

Ahhhh but Beeno

The very beeeeg question is

If Bradman was scrutinised and referred as many times as the modern day greats like Kallis or Tendulkar, would he have the same stats.

Me don't think so.

LBW

Stumpings

Catches in the field

Runouts

Nicks - Caught Behind

Any Hotspot referral - Gloves etc

4's

6's

Include that in a large portion of Bradman's career, as Kallis and Tendulkar had to endure, and he would never have got the average he did.

No doubt, close to the best player ever, if not the best, but we are not, and never can, compare apples with apples.

Do you guys know who is the only cricketer to ever score 48 runs in an over?

Yes, in those days the over consisted of 8 balls.

8 balls x 6 sixes = 48 runs in one over.

That in my opinion was one of the best cricketers of my time. Not because he scored 48 runs in one over but for all his other cricket performamces.

 The answer is:

GARY SOBERS.

Now do you guys know who is the only bowler to take 19 wickets in a Test?

The answer is:

Jim Laker playing for the MCC in the fifties. 

This was in a Test match for the guys who don't know or have never heard or read about English MCC teams.  

It is very unfair to select any player as the best of all time as times and the game have developed.

But I know that many Saffers regard F du Plessis and Dummy as the best flops in SA colours. 

 Jacques Henry Kallis without a doubt....not only has he carried a team but his presence is not something that comes around often.

I know people punt bradman but in playing in those times was totally different than today so one cannot really compare players from era's. seeing that there is a whole science in trying to work batsman out ext I am not sure bradman would have had such a massive impact in todays game.

World sport context

Wisden hailed Bradman as, "the greatest phenomenon in the history of cricket, indeed in the history of all ball games".[2] Statistician Charles Davis analysed the statistics for several prominent sportsmen by comparing the number of standard deviations that they stand above the mean for their sport.[241] The top performers in his selected sports are:[242]

The statistics show that "no other athlete dominates an international sport to the extent that Bradman does cricket".[3] In order to post a similarly dominant career statistic as Bradman, a baseball batter would need a career batting average of .392, while a basketball player would need to score an average of 43.0 points per game.[242] The respective records are .366 and 30.1.[242]