Aussies rate Tendulkar, McGrath best

India's Sachin Tendulkar and Australia's Glenn McGrath have been rated the best in the business in a survey of Australia's 145 first class players.

Sixty-eight per cent of those questioned said Tendulkar is the world's best batsman ahead of Australian captain Steve Waugh (27 per cent) and West Indian Brian Lara (three per cent).

Australian paceman McGrath was the runaway winner as the player's choice of world's best bowler with 61 per cent of the vote.

Shane Warne was second and Curtley Ambrose of the West Indies third.

Waugh was rated Australia's best cricketer ahead of McGrath and Warne. Surpisingly, Adam Gilchrist got the nod as the top one-day Australian player ahead of Michael Beven and Ricky Ponting.

Almost half of those questioned said they had no confidence in the International Cricket Council's ability to run the game on an global scale while 88 per cent said cricket should be concerned with the demise of the West Indies, England and India.

Mail Cricket Editor