Daniel’s Sporting
Masters
This is my attempt at selecting teams made up of players
whom I believe have been the best in their chosen sport since I started
watching top level sport in around 1985 or so. The only criterion here is
outstanding performance – a term that we all believe that we understand but use
to mean quite different things. Generally speaking, my idea of who the best
players are is based on who has the highest peaks. That is, a player who is
consistently very good is not as good as a player who doesn’t always reach his
or her peak but when they do, it’s worth the wait.
Michael Slater
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
V.V.S. Laxman
Brian Lara
*Stephen Fleming
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
+Jack Russell
Shane Warne
Malcolm Marshall
Desmond Haynes
Richie Richardson
Ian Healy
Andrew Flintoff
Curtley Ambrose
Harbhajan Singh
1. Peter Schmeichel
2. Lilian Thuram
3. *Paolo Maldini
4. +Ronald Koeman
5. Laurent Blanc
6. Zinedine Zidane
7. Figo
8. Diego Maradona
9. Ronaldo
10. Roberto Baggio
11. Gheorghe Hagi
12. Oliver Kahn
13. Andreas Brehme
14. Ronaldinho
15. Ryan Giggs
16. Romario
1. Darren Lockyer
2. Nathan Blacklock
3. Matthew Gidley
4. +Michael O’Connor
5. Wendell Sailor
6. Cliff Lyons
7. *Andrew Johns
8. Shane Webcke
9. Ben Elias
10. Steve Price
11. Gorden Tallis
12. Ben Kennedy
13. Wayne Pearce
14. Allan Langer
15. Trevor
Gillmeister
16. Sam Backo
17. Glenn Lazarus
15. +Matthew Burke
14. David Campese
13. Tana Umaga
12. Tim Horan
11. Jonah Lomu
10. Stephen Larkham
9. George Gregan
8. Zinzan Brooke
7. Josh Kronfeld
6. Michael Jones
5. *John Eales
4. Ian Jones
3. Olo Brown
2. Keith Wood
1. Os du Randt
22. Andre Joubert
21. Jonny Wilkinson
20. Agustin Pichot
19. Toutai Kefu
18. Martin Johnson
17. Patricio Noriega
16. Phil Kearns
Singles: Roger Federer; Pete Sampras
Doubles: Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde
Singles: Steffi Graf; Martina Hingis
Doubles: Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver
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