Top 10 legendary Indian Cricketers of all time

Cricket is the one running in our blood. Cricket in India isn't only a game. It's a celebration, which each Indian celebrates similarly. We treat these cricketers as God and love them. They resemble our hero with a bat-like Trishul in their arms. The top 10 Indian cricketers are,

 

1. Sachin Tendulkar 

He has every one of the records that each cricketer longs for. He is known as the Master of Cricket or, rather say, the "Lord Of Cricket." Beginning his vocation at the age of 16, he turned into the most youthful player to make a big appearance for India in Tests at 16 years old years and 205 days. 

He is the solitary player to have scored 100 worldwide hundreds of years, the main batsman to score a twofold century in a One Day International, the lone player to finish more than 30,000 runs in global cricket. In 2002, Wisden Cricketers' Almanac positioned him the second most noteworthy Test batsman ever, behind Don Bradman, and the second most prominent ODI batsman, behind Viv Richards. 

He has won many honors in his cricketing profession. These incorporate Arjuna Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Padma Shri, and the Padma Vibhushan Award. Also, he is the most youthful beneficiary to date and the first-ever sportsperson to get the Bharat Ratna Award, India's most elevated regular citizen grant. 

 

2 Kapil Dev 

, Named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002, Kapil Dev was one of the best all-rounders ever. He is a previous Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket crew, which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. He was additionally India's public cricket trainer for a long time between October 1999 and August 2000. 

Nicknamed The Haryana Hurricane, he addressed the Haryana cricket crew in homegrown cricket. He resigned in 1994, holding the world record for the most number of wickets taken in Test cricket, a record along these lines broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. At that point, he was likewise India's most elevated wicket-taker in both significant types of cricket, Tests, and ODIs. He is the solitary part throughout the entire existence of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5,000 runs in Tests, making him one of the best all-rounders to have played the game. On 8 March 2010, Kapil Dev was drafted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. 

 

3 Vijay Hazare 

Vijay Samuel Hazare (11 March 1915 – 18 December 2004) was an Indian cricket player from the territory of Maharashtra. He captained the Indian cricket crew in 14 matches somewhere in the range of 1951 and 1953. He was one of the best Indian batsmen of that period alongside Vijay Merchant. In India's 25th Test match, almost 20 years after India accomplished Test status, he drove India to its first since forever Test cricket win (and the lone triumph under his captaincy) in 1951–52 against England cricket crew at Madras, winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that started on the day that King George VI kicked the bucket. 

He has been respected with a prize in his name, the Vijay Hazare Trophy, a zonal-cricket competition in India. He and Jasu Patel were the primary cricketers to be respected with the Padma Shri. 

 

4 Sunil Gavaskar 

Sunil Manohar (conceived 10 July 1949) is a previous cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for the Bombay cricket crew and India. Generally viewed as one of the best opening batsmen in cricket history, Gavaskar set worldwide bests during his vocation for the most Test runs and most Test hundreds of years scored by any batsman. He held the record of 34 Test hundreds of years for just about twenty years before it was broken by Sachin Tendulkar in December 2005. 

Gavaskar was generally respected for his method against quick bowling, with an especially high normal of 65.45 against the West Indies, who had a four-pronged quick bowling assault viewed as the most ridiculously awful in Test history. In 2012 Gavaskar was granted the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for Cricket in India. 

 

5 Rahul Dravid 

Rahul Dravid (conceived 11 January 1973) is a previous Indian cricketer and skipper, generally viewed as perhaps the best batsman throughout the entire existence of cricket. Hailed as The Wall, Dravid has named a standout amongst the other five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanac in 2000 and got the Player of the Year and the Test Player the Year grants at the debut ICC grants service in 2004. In December 2011, he turned into the primary non-Australian cricketer to convey the Bradman Oration in Canberra. 

As of October 2012, Dravid is the fourth-most elevated run-scorer in Test cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, and Jacques Kallis, and is just the second Indian cricketer after Tendulkar to score 10,000 runs both in Tests and in ODIs. In 2004, after finishing his century against Bangladesh in Chittagong, he turned into the first and the lone player to date to score a century in all the ten Test-playing nations. 

 

6 Sourav Ganguly 

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (conceived 8 July 1972), warmly known as Dada, is a previous Indian cricketer and chief of the Indian public group. Presently, he is a cricket pundit and President of the Editorial Board with Wisden India. He is viewed as one of India's best skippers in present-day times. He began his vocation by playing in state and school groups. Presently, he is the fifth most elevated run-scorer in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and was the third individual in history to cross the 10,000 run milestone, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam Ul Haq. In 2002, the Wisden Cricketers' Almanac positioned him as the 6th most prominent ODI batsman, close to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Dean Jones, and Michael Bevan. Ganguly was granted the Padma Shri in 2004, one of India's most elevated regular citizen grants. 

 

7 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (conceived 7 July 1981) is an Indian cricketer and the current skipper of the Indian public cricket crew. He is an assaulting right-gave center request batsman and wicket-attendant. He is broadly viewed as perhaps the best finisher in restricted overs cricket. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh and played his first Test a year after the fact against Sri Lanka. 

Dhoni is the commander of India in every one of the three types of the game. His Test and ODI records are the awesome all Indian commanders to date. He assumed control over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007 and drove the group to its first-ever respective ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the CB Series of 2007–08, the 2010 Asia Cup, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. In the last of the 2011 World Cup, Dhoni scored 91 not out off 79 balls to take India to triumph, for which he was granted the Man of the Match. 

 

In 2009, Dhoni likewise drove the Indian group to the number one situation without precedent for the ICC Test rankings. In 2013, under his captaincy, India turned into the main group in over 40 years to whitewash Australia in a Test series. In June 2013, when India crushed England in the Champions Trophy in England, Dhoni turned into the main skipper to win all the three ICC prizes. He has likewise captained the Chennai Super Kings to triumph in the 2010 and 2011 periods of the Indian Premier League alongside the 2010 Champions League Twenty20. 

 

8 Virender Sehwag 

Virender Sehwag (conceived 20 October 1978) is an Indian cricketer. A forceful right-gave opening batsman and low maintenance right-arm off-turn bowler, he played his initial One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test group in 2001. In April 2009, Sehwag turned into the lone Indian to be regarded as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his presentation in 2008, consequently turning into the principal player of any ethnicity to hold the honor for 2009. 

Sehwag holds numerous records, including the most noteworthy score made by an Indian in Test cricket (319), which was likewise the quickest triple century throughout the entire existence of global cricket, just as the quickest 250 by any batsman. Sehwag likewise holds the differentiation of being one of four batsmen on the planet to have at any point outperformed 300 twice in Test cricket, and the main one to score two triple hundreds of years and take a five-wicket innings pull. In March 2009, Sehwag crushed the quickest century at any point scored by an Indian in ODI cricket, from 60 balls. On 8 December 2011, he hit his lady twofold century in ODI cricket against West Indies, turning into the second batsman after Sachin Tendulkar to arrive at the milestone. His score stays the most elevated individual score in ODI cricket – 219 off 149 balls. He is the solitary part on the planet to score a twofold hundred in ODI and a triple hundred in Test Cricket. 

 

9 Virat Kohli 

Virat Kohli (conceived 5 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer. A center request batsman, who can likewise bowl right-arm medium speed. Kohli captained the triumphant Indian group at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia and is the skipper of the Royal Challengers Bangalore establishment in the Indian Premier League. He additionally addressed Delhi in top-notch cricket and played for the West Delhi Cricket Academy. In One Day International (ODI) cricket, Kohli holds the fastest century record by an Indian batter and is turned into the quickest to 17 hundred in ODI by any batsman. He is the fourth batsman in ODIs after Sourav Ganguly (1997-2000), Sachin Tendulkar (1996-98), and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2007–09) to hit at least 1000 ODI runs in at least three successive schedule years. He likewise holds the record for hundreds of years in pursues, with 11 centuries, behind just Sachin Tendulkar. He is the main batsman to make five progressive scores of at least 50 in ODIs on two separate occasions.

Kohli was the recipient of the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2012. SportsPro has rated him the 2nd most marketable athlete in the world. In October 2013, against Australia, Kohli smashed the fastest ODI century by an Indian, the seventh fastest ever. In November 2013, he became the top-ranked ODI batsman for the first time. Kohli also received the Man of the Tournament during the 2014 T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.

 

10 Yuvraj Singh

Yuvraj Singh (born 12 December 1981) is an Indian international cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bats left-handed in the middle-order and bowls slow left-arm orthodox. He is the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi actor Yograj Singh. Yuvraj has been a member of the Indian cricket team in ODIs since 2000 and played his first Test match in 2003. He was the vice-captain of the ODI team from late-2007 to late-2008. He was the Man of the Tournament in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and one of the top performers at the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, both of which India won. In a match against England at the 2007 World Twenty20, he famously hit six sixes in one over bowled by Stuart Broad — a feat performed only three times previously in any form of senior cricket and never in an international match between two Test cricket teams.

Yuvraj was conferred with the Arjuna Award, India's second-highest sporting award, in the year 2012 by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. In 2014, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honor.

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