I was slightly surprised that one or two of West Indian 70's quicks eg Malcolm marshall/Patterson etc were not featured...

Simon , Manchester,

How can Javed Miandad, one of the all-time great cricketers, who has played against Warne be missing from this list altogether. I feel this is a very biased list from Warney.

CricketBuff, Toronto,

Warne's misranking of Steve Waugh made his subsequent listings impossible to take seriously. By allowing personal rivalry to cloud his judgement he largely invalidated what should have been a worthwhile list. It was rather like a football journalist from Sunderland saying Alan Shearer was pretty lame, simply because he's a Geordie.

Mark Lewis, London,

I think Shane did a good job with the 50. It is always hard to come up with a 50 without critics. However, I do think that he should have them classified under different categories (batsmen, allrounders, pace, spin, wicket keeper etc) and give weight to the player stats and the competition they played against. I don't understand Dilip Vengsarkar on this list and no Sunil Gavaskar. Does any one remember Gavaskar's record in West Indies against arguably the best pace attack we have ever seen?

Rajeev Sajja, Philadelphia, PA/USA

This is a personal list. If you ask me Adam Gilchrist is the best cricketer (in terms of value to a team) over the last 25 years. Australia had a batsman with an average of more than 50 and a strike rate of more than 80 coming in at no. 7 in test matches. Nothing can beat that advantage. And Gilchrist gave it to them.

prashanth, chennai, India

Anyone selecting the top 50 or "X" number of cricketers is always going to have their critics. If Steve Waugh an Adam Gilchrist had been included in the top three, then there would be some readers who would say that Warnie is biased in favor of Aussies.
I think Warne has done a wonderful job.
There is no gainsaying the fact that most of his choices were great cricketers. The exact ranking of those who made the list of 50, and the fact that some players had to be omitted is always a matter of opinion -- an honest assessment rather than bias.

Rajan , Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Despite being an Indian and being extremely delighted that an Australian and more importantly a cricketing legend has put an Indian at the top, I still do feel that Steve Waugh and Adam Gilchrist should have been very much within the top 10-15. But to be fair to Shane, Steve did not build the mighty Aussie team but rather added on to the fine work of Allan Border and Mark Taylor. And Ian Healy is definitely quite a few notches up on wicket keeping skills than Adam and infact IMHO even slightly better than Rod Marsh.

Somnath DasGupta, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman