ICC's Jest...

Last week,there was a great joke made by the ICC when it released a list of All Time Great Players...It was not a mistake to release the list but it happened to be a crime when Sachin Tendulkar's name was excluded from the Top Ten...In fact,he was placed at 26 in Tests Rankings and 14 in ODI Rankings..Sachin was the one who brought Indian Cricket to this level and it was because of him the game is popular and to say it was because of him the BCCI is Cash Rich...And ICC runs the game mainly because of BCCI and they afford to rate a player of Sachin's calibre below the rank of 20...What is intolerable is that Hayden,Hussey,Chanderpaul and Mohammed Yousuf are above Sachin...Hussey has not even played 50 matches in his career and is rated above Sachin,who has played more than 150 matches with a healthy average...And coming to the ICC ODI Rankings Sachin is at No.14 after Sangakkara and other Ordinary Players...To me,he is even better than Don Bradman,taking competition and media pressure into consideration...Ponting is at No.4,What a crap!!!He was such an ordinary player till the Ashes series in 2005...This rating is entirely in favour of the Australians...Ponting,Hussey and Hayden breaking into top 20...The criteria for selecting the Top 20 should be same...When Sachin was at its peak,no one was close to him...And i still remember that in those days it was Ceat Ratings,which can be easily calculated...Then,came the Reliance Ratings and everything changed...Who knows how it is calculated and on what basis..It's like the D/L Method of the ICC...Even Dravid is placed at No.30...Coming to the Bowling Department Steyn is placed above Donald...I think the ICC have gone Nuts...Whatever the rankings says,its just a like a bull shit,no one can take the laurels away from the Little Master...In the hearts of Indians,he always stays as the No.1...ICC,International Cricket Council should change its name to Idiotic Cricket Council after such a stupid Chart...