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Messi first, Ronaldo eighth on Marca’s best footballers list 2015

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Messi first, Ronaldo eighth on Marca's list of best footballers in 2015

Madrid: Leo Messi has once again topped the Spanish paper Marca’s list of the top 10 players of the year 2015 while Cristiano Ronaldo was eighth on the list.

Rather than picking the players themselves, Marca left the ordering up to reader’s votes. The year 2015 was undeniably the year of FC Barcelona. Luis Enrique’s side finish the year as the best club team on the planet.

That accolade was locked up by five trophies – the Copa del Rey, European SuperCup, La Liga, the Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup.

While Barca’s achievements were incredible, they seem to have skewed the results of Marca’s top 10 players of 2015 list.

According to results, for example, Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is eighth, while Barcelona’ s generally understated midfielder Sergio Busquets is sixth.

There were only two non-Spanish players picked in the top 10, while Barcelona had six players in the list.

The full Marca top 10 is as follows:

1. Leo Messi (Barcelona)

2. Neymar (Barcelona)

3. Luis Suarez (Barcelona)

4. Anders Iniesta (Barcelona)

5. Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)

6. Sergio Busquets (Barcelona)

7. Claudio Bravo (Barcelona)

8. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

9. Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid)

10. Paul Pogba (Juventus)

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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia

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The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.

Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.

Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”

Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.

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