My random thoughts

Top 25 Indian Cricketers

Criteria: Records and reputation as well as contribution to indian cricket for retired cricketers.
Potential for current cricketers

1. Sachin
2. Kapil Dev (Indian fast bowlers as a breed started with him, really)
3. Sunil Gavaskar

The rest are below in no particular order:

1. Prasanna
2. Bedi
3. Venkatraghavan
4. Chandrasekhar BS
   
5. Vengsarkar
6. G. Viswanath
7. M. Amarnath
8. R. Dravid
9. S. Ganguly
10. J. Srinath
11. Syed Kirmani
12. MAK Pataudi
13. CK Naidu
14. Vijay Hazare
15. Ravi Shastri
16. K Srikanth
17. Azharuddin
18. VVS Laxman (That one innings is enuff)
19. Harbhajan Singh
20. Roger Binny
21. Lala Amarnath
22. CK Naidu
23. p umrigar
24. f engineer
25. chandu borde
26. ML Jaisimha
27. D sardesai
28. Wadekar
29. Gaekwad
30. Yuvraj
31. Dhoni
32. Dinesh Karthik
33. Zaheer Khan