10 best players of all time from New South Wales

#4 Mark Waugh

Mark Waugh was a massive striker of the ball

Mark Waugh's elegant cover drives were a treat for sore eyes. Known to be the most entertaining batsman of his era, Mark was naturally gifted and had the most unbelievable pair of hands.

Known as Junior, Mark was born four minutes after his twin brother Steve Waugh.

The Waugh brothers, who were the first pair of twins to play Test cricket, were picked by New South Wales during the 1984-85 season.

Interestingly, the Waugh brothers played their last ODI, First-Class game and List A game together.

In the 1990-91 Ashes series, Steve was dropped from the team to make way for Mark. The younger Waugh rose to the occasion by scoring a century on debut. However, later in 1991, Steve returned to the Test team and remained a fixture thereafter.

A naturally attacking hitter of the cricket ball, Mark was an ideal number four batsman in Tests and a perfect opener in ODIs.

At the time of his retirement in 2002, Mark had scored 18 ODI tons, maximum by an Australian and had bagged 181 sublime Test catches, a world record at that time.