King Cricket Top Ten

Well, as you can see, this list doesn’t follow the official rankings.

All-rounders barely feature. This is a list that only takes into account the exceptional, so being a decent batsman and bowler won’t help you. You must excel. As for the absence of South Africans – their best two players are Shaun Pollock and Jacques Kallis, both of whom use the method of boring the opposition into submission.

Shahid Afridi’s probably the biggest surprise. We haven’t even loaded anything onto this blog yet and we’re already worried that it’s eventually going to boil down to a series of entries saying: “Afridi scored 42 off 17 balls today. We love Shahid Afridi.”