Will cricket be the same after the top players retire? And will we see similar heroes in the future?

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Fab 4 have been brilliant players and a brilliant advertisement for cricket fans across the globe.

After the retirement of AB, was going through the ages of Fab 4 and other top players. Most are ~33 already.

How many more years will we get to see these heroes in LOIs? How many more years will we get to see these heroes in International cricket? And world cricket will surely miss them.

Will the world cricket be the same without them? Will we find similar future heroes, especially ones like Fab 4?


These are some of the top players and their ages


Finch/ 35+
Warner/ 35+
Smith/ 32+
Maxwell/ 33+
Shakib/ ~35
M Rahim/ 34+
Root/ ~31
Buttler/ 31+
Roy/ ~32
Bairstow/ 32+
Rohit/ ~35
Kohli/ 33+
Pujara/ ~34
Rahane/ ~34
Dhawan/ ~36
Guptil/ 35+
Taylor/ ~38
Williamson/ 31+
Miller/ 32+
F Du Plessis/ 37+

We’ve already seen the last of Ab, Amla, Cook and Dhoni in last 2 years

These are just the top batters and we are gonna see some top spinners and pacers retire too

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Talking about future heroes

Markram, Stokes, Pant, Quinton, Babar & Rahul are proven at international level

Talents like Marnus, Livingstone, Conway and Rizwan can do something brilliant too

 

[Rana]

Or course we will.

These heroes are not better than the heroes I watched growing up

Ponting
Hayden
Gilchrist
McGrath
Warne
Lee
Smith
Gibbs
Kallis
Ntini
Pollock
Inzimam
Yousuf
Afridi
Razzaq
Akhtar
Tendulkar
Dravid
Sehwag
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Fleming
Vettori
Flintoff
Pietersen
Lara
Chanderpaul
Sarwan
Gayle
Sangakara
Dilshan
Vaas
Muralitharan
Jayawardane
Jayasuriya



The cycle of great cricketers will always continue.

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Or course we will.

These heroes are not better than the heroes I watched growing up

Ponting
Hayden
Gilchrist
McGrath
Warne
Lee
Smith
Gibbs
Kallis
Ntini
Pollock
Inzimam
Yousuf
Afridi
Razzaq
Akhtar
Tendulkar
Dravid
Sehwag
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Fleming
Vettori
Flintoff
Pietersen
Lara
Chanderpaul
Sarwan
Gayle
Sangakara
Dilshan
Vaas
Muralitharan
Jayawardane
Jayasuriya



The cycle of great cricketers will always continue.

I agree with u. But as u urself said, the cricketers u named were much better and the quality came down when we look at the current cricketers. Based on that if the quality keeps going down we wouldn’t get to see a lot of heroes would we

 

[Ab Fan]

Don't know about the rest but there won't be another AB.

166(62) in 2015
44(297) in 2015

He was like Wasim Akram, Brian Lara and Shane Warne of his generation. Genius!

 

[ElRaja]

i think AB retirement is sadder for the fact that hes the last ATG class batsmen SA produced, and pbly will be for the foreseeable future.

the global game will continue to produce brilliant short format players, his quality test batsmen will be always be rare tho.

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

On bowlers, I don’t think we will ever see another Anderson.

The bowling duo of Anderson and Broad in England is something else. Unfortunately both are on their last legs

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Bowlers

Anderson/ 39+
Broad/ 35+
Southee/ ~33
Hazelwood/ ~31
Starc/ ~32
Ashwin/ 35+
Jadeja/ ~33
Ishant/ 33+
Shami/ 32+
Yasir/ ~36
Lyon/ 34



We’ve already seen the last of Steyn, Malinga & Tahir in last 2 years

 

[street cricketer]

No player is bigger than the game.