India, June 26: The greatest Indian Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has been voted as the best test player of the 21st Century in an online poll which has conducted by Cricket Australia website.
Cricket Australia website cricket.com.au has conducted an online poll to find out the best test player since 2000. More than 16,000 fans are participated in the survey. After 10 days cricket.com.au announced the final results.
Former Indian Cricket player Sachin Tendulkar secured with 23 percent, Indian legendry batsman secured with highest number of votes out of 100 best test players since 2000. Sri Lanka’s left-handed batsman Kumar Sangakkara secured second position in the list with 14% of the votes and Adam Gilchrist of Australia got third position.
Sachin Tendulkar who is the only batsman in the history of the game have scored 100 international centuries is secured with top position as best test player with 23% votes. Sangakara got second position in list, and the list has former Australian stars Adam Gilchrist and Ricky pointing at number three and four respectively. Former South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis secured fifth position with 11 votes.
Top 10 players of 21st Century as per online Polls
- Sachin Tendulkar (India) – 23%
- Kumar Sangakkara (SL) -14%
- Adam Gilchrist (Aus) 13%
- Ricky Ponting (Aus) 11%
- Jacques Kallis (SA) 11%
- AB De Villiers (SA) 10%
- Shane Warne (Aus) 9%
- Glenn McGrath (Aus) 5%
- Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) 3%
- Dale Steyn (SA) 1%