Allan Border - Cricket's Greatest 

My all-time cricket hero - probably my all-time sporting hero

I have been watching cricket for 50+ years now. Allan Border is the Aussie batsman I have most admired in that time. A cussed, dogged batsman who parleyed a few shots and a fierce determination into a high achieving and long lasting test match career

No batsman in the history of cricket faced more great fast bowlers than Border. All the great West Indian fast bowlers that came off an assembly line at one stage. Bob Willis, Richard Hadlee, Kapil Dev, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Allan Donald and at state level he would have to contend with guys like Dennis Lillee. Great batsman.

He was the instigator of Australia’s Ashes domination from 1989-2005. As an England fan those years were painful. I was lucky enough to watch us win the Ashes in 1985 and 1986/87. I didn’t think I’d have to wait that long to see us win them again!! He was a great player and definitely a cricket legend.

His batting was not elegant like other left handers but he was constant like miyadad . He always helped like steve Waugh when team was in trouble. He scored ten thousand runs while batting at no. 5 to 6 position. It shows his quality of batting further as per requirement of team he bowled spin bowling with success. Hats of to this great player.

A manof action. A man who walked the walk on so many occasions. A man for the time. Cricket is privileged to have had Allan Border.

Set the tone on how to Captain an inexperience side by winning the ‘87 World Cup & two years later the ‘89 Ashes in England. Always will be my favourite Australian Captain

Allan Border came into International Cricket at a time when Cricket Australia was in dairestraits because of Kerry Packers World series, he later on take the leadership under the guidance of Bobby Simpson to make Cricket Australia dominating the world cricket, later on his successors make them the Invincibles.

I still remember chanting "Allan Border walks on water, la la ..."

Some Borders can and will never be crossed.

A truly great batsman was Alan Border.

If Donald Bradman is God, Allan Border is his son sent to sacrifice himself as an example of what it means to be an Australian test cricketer.

If I'm picking the best team of all time to save my life Alan Border is the first one picked🍻

They should have mentioned that Australia did beat WI the very next year after his retirement (1995).

In terms of inspiration, ab sits atop... in my opinion. I wasn't around before him, but since him, there has been no better captain.

No better Australian captain

Unfortunately he has been diagnosed with Parkinsons so we may not see much of him on commentary or around the grounds,

Scoring a massive 111,174 runs is no mean feat and was a good part time spinner. And obviously one of the greatest captains.