Sachin Tendulkar’s cult status just received another affirmation with a Cricket Australia website poll declaring the Indian legend as the best Test cricketer of the 21st century,
With over 16,000 fans voting, the former Indian cricketer got the highest number of votes to emerge on top of the list of the 100 best Test players since 2000. Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara received the second highest votes, followed by Adam Gilchrist of Australia in the third position.
Currently the ‘Icon’ of Indian Premier League (IPL) after retiring from all formats of the sports over a year back, Tendulkar earned 23 per cent of the fans votes while Sangakkara got 14 per cent votes after CA released the top-100 Test players’ list since 2000 on its website.
Tendulkar, who retired from international cricket in 2013 after playing his 200th Test, is the lone Indian player to be figuring in the top-10 list, while there are four Australian, three South African and two Sri Lankan cricketers.
We provided an opportunity to decide the No.1 Test player of the century and Tendulkar, the Little Master who remains an iconic figure in the sport, was a runaway winner, jumping four places from where cricket.com.au had him placed.
– Cricket Australia website
The 42-year-old Tendulkar, who is the only batsman to have hit 100 international centuries, holds the record for highest run scorer in both Tests and One-Day Internationals.