The Best Cricket Writer In The World.

[SachDan]

Robert Craddock With due apologies to Dhondy,Sali,Ravi and other extremely talented writers of the ICF, I feel that Robert Craddock of Australia is the best. Even the hugely respected writers like Peter Roebuck,Derek Pringle,Simon Huges,Gideon Haig and our own Sharda Ugra don't seem to match his quality.

[Mr. Wicket]

lol Didn't know Craddock actually wrote about cricket. That's a revelation :D

[SachDan]

lol Didn't know Craddock actually wrote about cricket. That's a revelation :D

Salil, I hope u only writes...no reading mate?:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Then who's it for u Salil?

[Tapioca]

Crash Craddock is a fine writer and his only real competitors are a couple of other Australian journalists.

[Mr. Wicket]

Of those alive, Roebuck and Atherton would most likely top the list. Of all I've read in the past, Jack Fingleton tops the list. Ray Robinson, John Arlott and Cardus come a notch behind.

[SachDan]

I meant writers of the present generation...I totally agree with u about Fingleton..he's better than Neville Cardus.

[Guest HariSampath]

Fingleton was a fantastic writer but no question, the best ever was Sir Neville Cardus. Of contemporaries, Tony Cozier is perhaps the best writer over the last 30 odd years

[Mr. Wicket]

Didn't like the fact that Cardus apparently made a handful of things up on the cuff for a lot of his reports (there are a few stories about how he missed the odd game at times, but would still write a report straight off the scorecard and his knowledge of players/characters), or reconstructing things (like his account of Spofforth's Ashes-creating test. Fingleton had a far more right-from-the-heart-of-the-battle mentality to his writing, which I preferred over Cardus' flowery prose.

[talksport]

I grew up with R. Mohan's Hindu reports and I think he is the best :)

[SachDan]

R.mohan is a good writer but not among the best..Even though Nirmal Shekhar rarely writes about cricket,his articles has always been very good in The Hindu.

[Guest HariSampath]

I have got this unquestioned hats off on Tony Cozier, over his writings commentaries..of 30 plus years ....NO cricket fan has ever doubted the class of Cozier, on his writings from the halycon days of Lloyd's windies , Waugh's Aussies, through Sachin, Warne, Lara , Murali of today.....

[Cricketics]

Hari, cozier i remember used to be great commentator plus writer during late 80z i am writer.. after that, he hasn't been much impressive..

[Don]

Really like Bhattcharya and Bhogle.

[Ram]

One of my favs is Rohit Brijnath. I remember reading his match review of the Leeds test of 2002 in Wisden, It was wonderfully written. I wish i could somehow get hold of it and post it here.

[fineleg]

I grew up with R. Mohan's Hindu reports and I think he is the best :)

R.Mohan is "ok", certainly nowhere near top quality. Hari Sampath: Yes, Cozier :thumbs_up:

[Tapioca]

One of my favs is Rohit Brijnath. I remember reading his match review of the Leeds test of 2002 in Wisden' date=' It was wonderfully written. I wish i could somehow get hold of it and post it here.[/quote'] Sriram, http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154971.html is the Wisden report. You must be talking it somewhere else - perhaps Wisden Asia Cricket ? R. Mohan sounds better now than he did at the time because of the nostalgia factor and the current Hindu writers are very average.

[The Outsider]

Amongst the really recent ones, I really enjoyed Pundits of Pakistan.

[Ram]

Sriram' date=' [url']http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154971.html is the Wisden report. You must be talking it somewhere else - perhaps Wisden Asia Cricket ? R. Mohan sounds better now than he did at the time because of the nostalgia factor and the current Hindu writers are very average.

Yes Taps, it was the Wisden Asia version.

[Holysmoke]

Dhondy + Boss. Seriously. I'd rather read a Dhondy write-up compared to any of those. And if Boss has got some stats in it, then you know its gonna be enlightening.

[Rajan]

1.R.Mohan 2.R.Mohan 3.R.Mohan I paid for Hindu to read his cricket coverage. Thanks.