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Who were the most elegant or stylish of all batsmen of all ??

Harsh Thakor

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Who was the most elegant or stylish of all batsmen?  

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  1. 1. Who wast the most elegant or stylish of all batsmen?

    • Zaheer Abbas
      0
    • Mohammad Azharuddin
      2
    • David Gower
      4
    • Mark Waugh
      7
    • Rohan Kanhai
      1
    • Gundappa Vishwanath
      0
    • Martin Crowe
      2
    • V.V.S.Laxman
      5
    • Alvin Kalicharan
      0
    • Brian Lara
      5
    • Frank Worrell
      0
    • Lawrence Rowe
      0
    • Greg Chappell
      0
    • Rahul Dravid
      2
    • Mahela Jayewardene
      0
    • Vijay Manjrekar
      0
    • Majid Khan
      0
    • Sachin Tendulkar
      6
    • Ted Dexter
      0
    • Mohammad Yousuf
      0

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This is my selection in order of merit of the most elegant or artistic batsmen of all time.They were simply the equivalent of connoiseurs to the game of cricket.Their batting was simply poetry in motion or reminsicent of a Rembrandt canvas.Their deftest touche sent the ball rolling to the boundary.Their strokes were like the touches of a painters brush.All took art of batting to regions of divinity,holding the bat like a wand.

 

 

1.David Gower

2.Frank Worrell

3.Zaheer Abbas

4.Mohammad Azharuddin

5.Gundappa Vishwanath

6.Majid Khan

7.Lawrence Rowe

8.Ted Dexter

9.Rohan Kanhai

10.V.V.S.Laxman

11.Mark Waugh

12.Martin Crowe

13.Greg Chappell

14.Mahela Jayewardene

15.Alvin Kalicharan

 

The 1st 4 were virtually a dead heat.No batsmen ever displayed such ease on the crease as Gower who treated the most lethal cricket balls like a mother putting a child to sleep with characteristic silken touch.Worrel was the epitome of elegance .Zaheer, Azhar, Vishy and Majid  took batting artistry to regions of the sublime like a musical composer.Zaheer and Azhar more like poets,Zaheer and Majid reminiscent of magicians.Rowe was more elegant than any West Indian batsmen of his era.Even when showing contempt Dexter would never lose his golden touch.Kanhai was the ultimate batting wizard.V.V.Surpassed even Tendulkar in terms of battting innovation.Mark Waugh was classical in his execution even when tearing an attack to shreds.Growe was simply poetry in motion.Jayewardene had a characteristic sublime touch.

 

For pure elegance  or beauty Gower and Worrell just edged Zaheer and Azhar .Still the latter were better protagonists of pure touch art.For creativity Kanhai  Vishy ,Laxman ,Majid and Crowe were supreme .I feel Zaheer Abbas or Azharuddin by a whisker had more of the element of beauty than Vishwanath or Majid in the poetic sense.Similar case between Lawrence Rowe and Rohan Kanhai.

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1 hour ago, Harsh Thakor said:

This is my selection in order of merit of the most elegant or artistic batsmen of all time.They were simply the equivalent of connoiseurs to the game of cricket.Their batting was simply poetry in motion or reminsicent of a Rembrandt canvas.Their deftest touche sent the ball rolling to the boundary.Their strokes were like the touches of a painters brush.All took art of batting to regions of divinity,holding the bat like a wand.

 

 

1.David Gower

2.Frank Worrell

3.Zaheer Abbas

4.Mohammad Azharuddin

5.Gundappa Vishwanath

6.Majid Khan

7.Lawrence Rowe

8.Ted Dexter

9.Rohan Kanhai

10.V.V.S.Laxman

11.Mark Waugh

12.Martin Crowe

13.Greg Chappell

14.Mahela Jayewardene

15.Alvin Kalicharan

 

The 1st 4 were virtually a dead heat.No batsmen ever displayed such ease on the crease as Gower who treated the most lethal cricket balls like a mother putting a child to sleep with characteristic silken touch.Worrel was the epitome of elegance .Zaheer, Azhar, Vishy and Majid  took batting artistry to regions of the sublime like a musical composer.Zaheer and Azhar more like poets,Zaheer and Majid reminiscent of magicians.Rowe was more elegant than any West Indian batsmen of his era.Even when showing contempt Dexter would never lose his golden touch.Kanhai was the ultimate batting wizard.V.V.Surpassed even Tendulkar in terms of battting innovation.Mark Waugh was classical in his execution even when tearing an attack to shreds.Growe was simply poetry in motion.Jayewardene had a characteristic sublime touch.

 

For pure elegance  or beauty Gower and Worrell just edged Zaheer and Azhar .Still the latter were better protagonists of pure touch art.For creativity Kanhai  Vishy ,Laxman ,Majid and Crowe were supreme .I feel Zaheer Abbas or Azharuddin by a whisker had more of the element of beauty than Vishwanath or Majid in the poetic sense.Similar case between Lawrence Rowe and Rohan Kanhai.

If you talk about elegance where is Rohit Sharma or Yuvraj

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39 minutes ago, mishra said:

I have seen matches and players since eighties. For me layers who can hit text book shots, So In terms of elegance Only three players. Dravid Lara Ponting.

Most modern day bats play with heavier bats and can not replicate the movement.

 

 

Not Ponting.Lara and Dravid debatable .

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