Greatest sportsman of each test country

Badminton: Prakash Padukone, P Gopichand, Saina Nehwal
Billiards (including snooker): Pankaj Advani, Geet Sethi, Michael Ferrera
Athletics: P T Usha, Milkha Singh
Chess: V Anand

Australia and the United Kingdom have both produced conspicuously large numbers of outstanding sportsmen and sportswomen in a wide variety of disciplines.

Aisam ul Haq is one of the top 3 greatest tennis players Pakistan have ever produced

not good

How can you have such an amazing dynasty in one racket sport and almost be non existent in the other?

Wish there was a tennis court or 2 in Peshawar instead of Squash courts because a tennis champ> Squash champ

They should wise up. Tetnus is where the money is.

On a related note, I sometimes wonder some of the excellent netball players from Australia and New Zealand, who are lucky if their match fees meet their expenses, don't retrain and aim for the WNBA.

Shahid Afridi should also retrain and aim for baseball...same with A Razzaq

never mind with A Razzaq...he is too lazy to do anything productive

Never Mind the Buzzaqs.

I've just noticed your current 'tar, PP. Why have you cruelly defaced the picture of that young man?

HH_pink wrote:India. Never been a great sporting country, but hopefully that'll change soon.

Cricket: Sachin Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar, Ajit Aquacker, VVS Laxman, Bishen Bedi, Vishwanath
Hockey: Dhyan Chand, Dhanraj Pillay
Tennis: Vijay Amritraj, Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi
Badminton: Prakash Padukone, P Gopichand
Billiards (including snooker): Pankaj Advani, Geet Sethi
Sooking: turgidinator, sreesanth, Gavaskar

fixed

SG wrote:Badminton: Prakash Padukone, P Gopichand, Saina Nehwal
Billiards (including snooker): Pankaj Advani, Geet Sethi, Michael Ferrera
Athletics: P T Usha, Milkha Singh
Chess: V Anand

HTF did I leave out Anand? He's one of my greatest idols.
Maybe because I subconsciously don't consider chess a sport. But it's the greatest game. Ever.

Don't forget Humpy.

LOL.

SG wrote:Badminton: Prakash Padukone, P Gopichand, Saina Nehwal
Billiards (including snooker): Pankaj Advani, Geet Sethi, Michael Ferrera
Athletics: P T Usha, Milkha Singh
Chess: V Anand

I don't know if Nehwal is at the "greatest ever" stage yet.

I meant that se'iously. Youngest ever grandmaster of the distaff variety.

embee wrote:Cricket : Bradman , Warne , Lillee , McGrath , Border

Aussie Rules : Matthews , Whitten , Farmer , Carey , Lockett , Ablett , Dyer

Swimming : Thorpe , Perkins , Fraser , Gould , O'Neill

Athletics : Elliott Strickland Cuthbert Jackson Boyle Freeman

Squash : Hunt McKay

Tennis : Laver Rafter Newcombe Rosewall

Soccer : Can we claim Christian Vieri? Kewell Viduka Cahill

Hockey : Charlesworth Annan Dwyer George

Who?

True, but she has been very consistent through last 2-3 years. She is the highest ever ranked Indian shuttler.

BTW, has Abhinav Bindra done enough to be included in this list? Apart from his olympic gold in Bejing last year, he has also been crowned as world champ.

SG wrote:True, but she has been very consistent through last 2-3 years. She is the highest ever ranked Indian shuttler.

BTW, has Abhinav Bindra done enough to be included in this list? Apart from his olympic gold in Bejing last year, he has also been crowned as world champ.

I think he has done more than many others. And he is still in the game to achieve more. Let us hope that he does.

OP Tipping wrote:I've just noticed your current 'tar, PP. Why have you cruelly defaced the picture of that young man?

what the.........


He is naturally sharp and deformed

ok who the hell wrote this on wiki

Field Hockey

The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) is the national governing body of field hockey in Pakistan. The Pakistan Hockey Federation Women Wing (PHFWW) is the official organization of women's field hockey in Pakistan. The Pakistan men's team has won three gold medals at the Olympics and lifted the Hockey World Cup four times. It has also won the most number of Asian gold medals and is the only Asian team to have won the prestigious Champions Trophy with three titles. It has been consistently ranked amongst the top teams in the world. Notable players include Sohail Abbas, Mohammed Saqlain and Waseem Ahmad.

See Also: Pakistan national field hockey team[b]

WIFAN wrote:Beamer is right, it is mostly cricketers with sprinters and footballers mixed in.

Antigua - Curtly Ambrose, Andy Roberts.
Barbados - Malcolm Marshall, Obadele Thompson.
Guyana - Clive Lloyd, Rohan Kanhai, Shiv etc
Jamaica - Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell etc
Trinidad & Tobago - Brian Lara, Dwight Yorke, Ato Boldon.
St Lucia - Darren Sammy?

G. StA. Sobers fit there anywhere you think?

WF,

where are you from?

England might have Phil Taylor.

But we've got Walter Lindrum and Heather McKay.

India -

Cricket : Tendulkar

Hockey : Dhyanchand

Chess : Anand


England - Ian Bell.