{"id":1533,"date":"2016-04-18T13:12:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2016-04-26T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:16:44","slug":"pakistanis-lead-cricket-australias-greatest-odi-player-of-all-time-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1533","title":{"rendered":"Pakistanis lead Cricket Australia&#8217;s &#8216;Greatest ODI player of All Time&#8217; poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/online.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1534\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/online-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"online\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/online-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/online.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>An online poll launched on Cricket <span id=\"IL_AD3\" class=\"IL_AD\">Australia<\/span>\u2019s <span id=\"IL_AD1\" class=\"IL_AD\">official website<\/span> in order to nominate the Greatest ODI player of All Time (GOAT), Pakistani players are leading by a significant margin over other legends of the game, reported Dunya News.<\/p>\n<p>The nomination procedure is simple \u2013 a total of 64 players have been named by Cricket Australia, the voters have to narrow it down to one as the players who get fewer votes in every round are removed from <span id=\"IL_AD2\" class=\"IL_AD\">the list<\/span> automatically and the ones who get the votes proceed to the next rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani greats, including Imran Khan, Saeed Anwar, Shoaib Akhtar, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis have cleared the initial round of the tournament, beating all-time legendary players such as Sourav Ganguly, Mohammad Azharuddin, Brett Lee and Richard Hadlee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/img.dunyanews.tv\/images\/userfiles\/goat%20table.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: Dunyanews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online poll launched on Cricket Australia\u2019s official website in order to nominate the 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