rangeelaraja Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) Sehwag is arguably the greatest boundary hitter in cricket in the last a few decades Edited October 20, 2019 by rangeelaraja velu 1 Link to comment
velu Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 sehwag is not a six hitter .. @maniac is a six hitter .. maniac 1 Link to comment
Real McCoy Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 12 minutes ago, velu said: sehwag is not a six hitter .. @maniac is a six hitter .. sehwag starts hitting from ball one. ro hits after settling in and goes crazy after a while. sehwag is poor mans tendulkar. ro is poor mans lara Muloghonto 1 Link to comment
rangeelaraja Posted October 20, 2019 Author Share Posted October 20, 2019 16 minutes ago, Real McCoy said: sehwag starts hitting from ball one. ro hits after settling in and goes crazy after a while. sehwag is poor mans tendulkar. ro is poor mans lara Thats non-sense. When we were struggling for openers for years in the 90's, why did the " great " Tendulkar who opens in ODIS, not offer to open in Tests ? Sehwag is NO Poor Man's Tendulkar. Sehwag is SEHWAG. We owe half our wins in tests in the 2000s and 2010s to him. Vk1, Laaloo, construction430 and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment
Real McCoy Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 30 minutes ago, rangeelaraja said: Thats non-sense. When we were struggling for openers for years in the 90's, why did the " great " Tendulkar who opens in ODIS, not offer to open in Tests ? Sehwag is NO Poor Man's Tendulkar. Sehwag is SEHWAG. We owe half our wins in tests in the 2000s and 2010s to him. I was just giving a comparison vis-a-vis rohit and sehwag. Poor man in this case refers to their career stats. Doesn't make Sehwag any lesser in contribution. no need to take it literally. On the topic of Sachin not opening in tests but opening in ODIs, I have the same question. Also in ODIs he doesn't take first strike. I don't know why that is Maybe some of our fake sachintards who didn't even wish him on his birthday can answer your question and also mine. Vilander, construction430, Laaloo and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment
Vilander Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 4 minutes ago, Real McCoy said: I was just giving a comparison vis-a-vis rohit and sehwag. Poor man in this case refers to their career stats. Doesn't make Sehwag any lesser in contribution. no need to take it literally. On the topic of Sachin not opening in tests but opening in ODIs, I have the same question. Also in ODIs he doesn't take first strike. I don't know why that is Maybe some of our fake sachintards who didn't even wish him on his birthday can answer your question and also mine. Its called mumbai school of batting. Safest spot for batter is at non striker even if Sunny was the best bats of the team and team was in dolldrums. Sachin was less selfish but still liked his 100s. Real McCoy, Laaloo and construction430 2 1 Link to comment
maniac Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 To be honest Sehwag can go from ball 1. Never seen a player not needing a sighter opening the batting in tests. by that I don't meen Afridi type of swipes but judging the length and line of the ball the moment he took strike. However with Sehwag he would get beautiful 30's or even 50's and then play some reckless over the top shot. He looks like he can get out any time With Rohit it is the opposite, he gets a platform and then after that his hitting almost seems unstoppable raki05 and Vk1 2 Link to comment
rangeelaraja Posted October 20, 2019 Author Share Posted October 20, 2019 Both of them are similar in the sense that once they get going and make centuries they make BIG centuries and make their form count raki05 1 Link to comment
maniac Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Real McCoy said: I was just giving a comparison vis-a-vis rohit and sehwag. Poor man in this case refers to their career stats. Doesn't make Sehwag any lesser in contribution. no need to take it literally. On the topic of Sachin not opening in tests but opening in ODIs, I have the same question. Also in ODIs he doesn't take first strike. I don't know why that is Maybe some of our fake sachintards who didn't even wish him on his birthday can answer your question and also mine. He took first strike in the game vs Pak in 2003. When it really mattered the man or should I say in this case god turns up :) raki05 and Laaloo 2 Link to comment
velu Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 53 minutes ago, maniac said: He took first strike in the game vs Pak in 2003. When it really mattered the man or should I say in this case god turns up :) verified now maniac 1 Link to comment
maniac Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 4 minutes ago, velu said: verified now Keep up. A lot of myths will be disproven :) Link to comment
cricketfan28 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 rohit is sensible. Link to comment
Deleted_User_1 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Sehwag albeit a STB, but was and established test player and a Indian ATG in test cricket. Let's not tarnish his legacy by this comparison. Like I said let's see in NZ and against Eng and Aus at home. Link to comment
jf1gp_1 Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Bowlers were scared of Sehwag they aren’t of rohit that’s the difference Link to comment
CG Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Bowlers were scared of Sehwag they aren’t of rohit that’s the differenceRohit is a better technically than sehwag.He has greater range of shots than Sehwag.Sehwag scores over Rohit in mental aspects of game. Link to comment
Vilander Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Sehwag like Jayasurya is a phenomenon force of nature. Rohit is a great batsman but Sehwag was something else. jf1gp_1 1 Link to comment
Muloghonto Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 12 hours ago, rangeelaraja said: Thats non-sense. When we were struggling for openers for years in the 90's, why did the " great " Tendulkar who opens in ODIS, not offer to open in Tests ? Sehwag is NO Poor Man's Tendulkar. Sehwag is SEHWAG. We owe half our wins in tests in the 2000s and 2010s to him. Because it’s tactically stupid to ever make your best middle order batsman open in Tests. Period. No side has ever done this and even when middle order batsmen opened, they were not the best in their team for that time. I agree though that Sehwag is Sehwag and that getting him to open in Tests is no joke. Sharma is a joke of a test player and opener overseas and while Sehwags stats in England Australia etc suffered in the last 2-3 years of his career, Sehwag still did pretty well overseas for the average opener overseas for most of his career. Link to comment
rangeelaraja Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 13 minutes ago, Muloghonto said: Because it’s tactically stupid to ever make your best middle order batsman open in Tests. Period. No side has ever done this and even when middle order batsmen opened, they were not the best in their team for that time. I agree though that Sehwag is Sehwag and that getting him to open in Tests is no joke. Sharma is a joke of a test player and opener overseas and while Sehwags stats in England Australia etc suffered in the last 2-3 years of his career, Sehwag still did pretty well overseas for the average opener overseas for most of his career. A great batsman is supposed to be a great batsman. Period. Tendulkar opened in the ODIS most of his career, where he found it easier to take advantage of field restrictions rather than reluctantly bat at NO.4, where he was not best in the middle overs. Sunny G has opened the batting all his life in tests. How come the personification of a so called perfect batting technique, Tendulkar never opened in tests. Is all this noise about his technique and balance and blah bi blah.. just bull ? Laaloo 1 Link to comment
R!TTER Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 9 minutes ago, rangeelaraja said: Is all this noise about his technique and balance and blah bi blah.. just bull ? Right, is that why Donny never opened in tests or Viv anywhere else? Link to comment
Real McCoy Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 12 hours ago, maniac said: He took first strike in the game vs Pak in 2003. When it really mattered the man or should I say in this case god turns up :) Maybe Sehwag went to the non-striker end and Sachin was left to take first strike He is "superstitious" about being no.2. I was never comfortable watching India's innings where Sachin was opening for the first two overs. Not the case with Rohit and Dhawan. Link to comment
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