HallofFame

Gerrard continues to be a source of inspiration and will continue to be so even when he hangs up his boots

A big player against a bigger opposition created the biggest moment for his nation — France’s first ever World Cup.

What separated Ronaldinho from the pack of ‘legends’ was his seemingly unending talent.

One Pakistani who, at his pomp, knocked off almost everyone else from the pedestal — Saeed Anwar.

In the 20 years in which Bradman played, the overall batting average was 31.85.

She is the only player to this date to have won the quartet of slams four times each, winning 22 in all.

30.12 is Jordan’s regular season scoring average per game, an NBA record for highest career average.

The legend of the Ayrton Senna is still fresh in the hearts of the Formula One fan-base.

Silky and graceful shot-making was his hallmark and it seemed that Malik never needed power to hit boundaries.

Mercurial, temperamental, genius — ‘The Rocket’ has lived up to all sorts of terminologies.

He broke three world records in 2003 World Championship in addition to winning four golds and two silvers.

From 1990 to 1994, Shahbaz was by a country mile the best player in the game.

Tendulkar was, without a doubt, the most complete batsman of his time.

Bergkamp is considered the greatest Dutch footballer by many and was their leading all-time goal scorer at one point.

At the age of 15, Bolt became the youngest world-junior gold medallist ever in the 2002 World Junior Championships.

It is his ruthless will to continue to improve that has made Woods the man he is today.

It mattered little whether it was a red ball or a white one; in Akhtar’s hands, it was a weapon of mass destruction.

Lara would always be remembered as the man who made the bowlers dance to his tunes.

What made Inzaghi one of the greatest Italian strikers of all time was not the goals he scored, but their timing.

The moment he realised he could not give cricket his all, he walked away.

Ali may be the best thing that happened to boxing.

As he scorched his way to sporting immortality, Jahangir left a trail of over 500 successive victories behind him.

Schumacher's competitive instinct may not have bode well with many, but he stands amongst the greats.

Federer is also the current record-holder for the most wins (six) at the ATP World Tour Finals.

Iniesta is arguably the greatest attacking midfielder, if not greatest midfielder outright, to have graced the sport.

Bursting onto the international scene in 1989, Waqar was one of the pioneers of bowling full and straight.