Favorite Indian Test Batsmen

[Nonbeliever]

Sachin

Dravid

Sehwag

 

Favourite test bat in Odis..Ravi shastri.

[Straight Drive]

Sunny

[Nikola]

22 hours ago, Rasgulla said:

Sachin against Anderson 

Dhoti outside asia.

[Rasgulla]

1 hour ago, Nikola said:

Dhoti outside asia.

That 2nd Innings 76* at Lords will be remembered which set up Indian series win in England  whereas 100's obsessed midget doesn't even have a Century at lords Will Always be remembered as Anderson's bunny 

Edited February 27, 2020 by Rasgulla

[Nikola]

10 minutes ago, Rasgulla said:

That 2nd Innings 76* at Lords will be remembered which set up Indian series win in England  whereas 100's obsessed midget doesn't even have a Century at lords Will Always be remembered as Anderson's bunny 

I agree Tendulkar was anderson's bunny but then i checked other players and surprised to see bigger bunny down the list.

 

 

Sachin faced anderson when his downfall started where as thala was at peak of career. 

Edited February 27, 2020 by Nikola

[Deleted_User_1]

On 2/26/2020 at 9:22 AM, Jimmy Cliff said:

Only idiots call Pujara an FTB.

Absolutely correct. He is one of the prime reasons we won in Australia. Folks are riled up that he occupied the crease for so long, but did not score much. Well, that is how he plays. Go watch his innings in Aus. That is how he scored his runs. He is boring and not exciting to watch, but he is the type of batsman I would keep in my team to occupy the crease and grind it out. It so happens, it did not work out last innings because of a mental error. WTF, did the others folks do? They could not even occupy the crease for long. I think Pujara should open. His job would be to delay loss of a wicket for as long as possible to frustrate the other side. If he scores big, then it is even better like what happened in Aus.

 

A FTB has no technique against the moving ball like Sehwag (although on STB he is the greatest batsman ever). Pujara has enough technique and grit to ride through touch periods. I do not think the fact that he plays 100 balls and scores 10 bothers him mentally. You need a batsman or two of this mentality in the team to avoid colllapses.

[zen]

35 minutes ago, Audiophile said:

Absolutely correct. He is one of the prime reasons we won in Australia

 

One of the reasons that when Pujara scores and Ind does well is he can make it count with a big inning (cover up for others failures). Some of the others may score a good looking 50 that the commentators may praise but that is about it. They should be pushing themselves like Pujara to make it count when they are "in". Overseas, even though you have 11 players, not everyone is going to be consistent or effective in "away" conditions, therefore, those who find form have to try to score big. 

 

At Adelaide, for e.g., Pujara scored 123 when the next best score was 37. If he had scored a 60,  esp. if it were a good looking one that commentators praised, it would still be considered a good effort by many, but Pujara pushed himself to get a 100+ in that environment and cover for others. That is the difference b/w Pujara and some of the other batsmen. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 27, 2020 by zen

[rtmohanlal]

38 minutes ago, Audiophile said:

Absolutely correct. He is one of the prime reasons we won in Australia. Folks are riled up that he occupied the crease for so long, but did not score much. Well, that is how he plays. Go watch his innings in Aus. That is how he scored his runs. He is boring and not exciting to watch, but he is the type of batsman I would keep in my team to occupy the crease and grind it out. It so happens, it did not work out last innings because of a mental error. WTF, did the others folks do? They could not even occupy the crease for long. I think Pujara should open. His job would be to delay loss of a wicket for as long as possible to frustrate the other side. If he scores big, then it is even better like what happened in Aus.

 

A FTB has no technique against the moving ball like Sehwag (although on STB he is the greatest batsman ever). Pujara has enough technique and grit to ride through touch periods. I do not think the fact that he plays 100 balls and scores 10 bothers him mentally. You need a batsman or two of this mentality in the team to avoid colllapses.

He is one of   the prime reasons as to  why we couldn't win a single series in SENA other than that AUS series as well. All these crease occupying means nothing if the scoreboard shows digital scores against your name.

[zen]

21 minutes ago, rtmohanlal said:

He is one of   the prime reasons as to  why we couldn't win a single series in SENA other than that AUS series as well. All these crease occupying means nothing if the scoreboard shows digital scores against your name.

Yes buddy, the whole cricket world revolves around Pujara! If Pujara does well, Ind wins and vice versa. Even though, Ind has only won a handful of matches in SENA in its history, Pujara’s arrival made folks like you believe that Ind could win everything in SENA! Good to know that

Edited February 27, 2020 by zen

[Nikola]

I will give full credit to pujara for his series winning effort in aus but other than that he has actually done nothing to make note of in almost whole decade overseas. He is one of the best batsman in world in test cricket but his performance in SENA Countries hasn't been that well. Only one great series to consider.

 

Let's look at stats since of 2013 SA tour where we started to tour in SENA country and Pujara/Kohli were our key batsman. 

 

 

5 Tons in almost 50 innings for such key player? and not to forget 3 of them came in one series (Aus 2018). He has failed in West Indies (seaming conditions) as well so if i include that his avg will go below 35. I won't call him FTB cause he has played some great knocks overseas but he has been bit inconsistent as well as per his standards. Rahane after his horrible second SENA Tour is still having better avg than pujara. The way our other batsman bat he should have no problems with his spot in test cricket for next couple of years though and if we look over last 7 years i think he is probably in top 3 or 4 batsman.

Edited February 27, 2020 by Nikola

[zen]

31 minutes ago, Nikola said:

I will give full credit to pujara for his series winning effort in aus but other than that he has actually done nothing to make note of in almost whole decade overseas. He is one of the best batsman in world in test cricket but his performance in SENA Countries hasn't been that well. Only one great series to consider.

In his last 7 tests in SENA, Pujara avgs 60 w/ 4 100s. I don't know why would anyone complain about 2013 or whatever, when he has been playing for Ind despite whatever happened in the past and redeemed himself big time by giving Ind its first ever series win in Aus, which has been like climbing a mount everest for Asian teams (Pak hasn't won anything yet for example)

 

Pujara in his last 7 test (since his magnificent 100 in Eng):

 

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Player	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
CA Pujara	7	13	1	717	193	59.75	1756	40.83	4	1	2	72	2
RR Pant	7	13	1	531	159*	44.25	762	69.68	2	0	1	54	11
V Kohli	7	13	0	456	123	35.07	1006	45.32	1	2	2	50	1
AM Rahane	7	13	0	391	70	30.07	963	40.60	0	3	1	35

 

Not many care about 2013 or whatever, esp, when he is doing the above (but if worrying about 2013 keeps you busy by all means worry about it)  

 

 

Edited February 27, 2020 by zen

[Nikola]

12 minutes ago, zen said:

In his last 7 tests in SENA, Pujara avgs 60 w/ 4 100s. I don't know why would anyone complain about 2013 or whatever, when he has been playing for Ind despite whatever happened in the past and redeemed himself big time by giving Ind its first ever series win in Aus, which has been like climbing a mount everest for Asian teams (Pak hasn't won anything yet for example)

 

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Player	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
CA Pujara	7	13	1	717	193	59.75	1756	40.83	4	1	2	72	2
RR Pant	7	13	1	531	159*	44.25	762	69.68	2	0	1	54	11
V Kohli	7	13	0	456	123	35.07	1006	45.32	1	2	2	50	1
AM Rahane	7	13	0	391	70	30.07	963	40.60	0	3	1	35

 

Not many care about 2013 or whatever, esp, when he is doing the above (but if worrying about 2013 keeps you busy by all means worry about it)  

 

 

Fine won't talk about his first SENA tour. Then why are you show stats since he made his first ton? Why not since start of SA series? (His second SENA Tour)

 

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PS also has a top order batsman, he is better than others :

 

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Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
CA Pujara	2013-2020	24	45	1	1662	193	37.77	4133	40.21	5	6	4	196	3
M Vijay	2013-2018	20	40	0	1257	146	31.42	3031	41.47	2	7	5	161	8
S Dhawan	2013-2018	15	30	0	774	115	25.80	1343	57.63	1	2	2	98	2
KL Rahul	2014-2019	12	22	0	513	149	23.31	960	53.43	2	0	3	69	3

 

Lol comparing with avg performing openers and being happy with it. In this way you have set pretty low standards for pujara it seems. Our openers have been pathetic and being bit better than them is great?

Edited February 27, 2020 by Nikola

[zen]

7 minutes ago, Nikola said:

Fine won't talk about his first SENA tour. Then why are you show stats since he made his first ton? Why not since start of SA series? (His second SENA Tour)

Because from that point, it shows an upward trend  .... for your reference, below since 2018:

 

 

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V Kohli	2018-2020	13	25	0	1182	153	47.28	2234	52.90	4	5	2	136	2
CA Pujara	2018-2020	12	23	1	921	193	41.86	2449	37.60	4	3	3	99	2
RR Pant	2018-2020	8	15	1	556	159*	39.71	819	67.88	2	0	1	56	12
AM Rahane	2018-2020	11	21	0	606	81	28.85	1410	42.97	0	4	1	62	3
KL Rahul	2018-2019	10	19	0	386	149	20.31	653	59.11	1	0	3	53	2

 

 

 

also as a top order batsman (at times a virtual opener), a tough job in SENA, he is better than others during the 2013-2019 period :

 

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CA Pujara	2013-2020	24	45	1	1662	193	37.77	4133	40.21	5	6	4	196	3
M Vijay	2013-2018	20	40	0	1257	146	31.42	3031	41.47	2	7	5	161	8
S Dhawan	2013-2018	15	30	0	774	115	25.80	1343	57.63	1	2	2	98	2
KL Rahul	2014-2019	12	22	0	513	149	23.31	960	53.43	2	0	3	69	3

 

 

 

Edited February 27, 2020 by zen

[zen]

34 minutes ago, Nikola said:

Lol comparing with avg performing openers and being happy with it. In this way you have set pretty low standards for pujara it seems. Our openers have been pathetic and being bit better than them is great?

Those were some of the best batsmen for Ind at the respective points. The other 3 on the list avg (combined) 28. Pujara avgs 38 (+36%) .... In the last 7 tests, he is avg 60 (others avg 36) .... If Pujara bats at #4-5 for e.g., his avg could get even higher. People know batting in top order is tough in SENA. 

[maniac]

Sachin

Sehwag

Rohit/Kohli- yes Rohit might seem like a controversial pick but here is a guy who has 3 Odi 200s and multiple T20 100s, I tune into see what miracle he can produce every single time.

[Rasgulla]

6 hours ago, Nikola said:

I agree Tendulkar was anderson's bunny

Chalo point proven

[Gollum]

3 hours ago, maniac said:

Sachin

Sehwag

Rohit/Kohli- yes Rohit might seem like a controversial pick but here is a guy who has 3 Odi 200s and multiple T20 100s, I tune into see what miracle he can produce every single time.

No VVS 

Rohit is half blood based outside, VVS is pure blood and son of the soil. 

Edited February 28, 2020 by Gollum

[SK_IH]

R Dravid, cannot forget his series defining returns circa 2000-2007.

Edit : 2nd fav VVS Laxman, absolute clutch batsman and 3rd would be Veeru, pure entertainment.

Edited February 28, 2020 by SK_IH

[First class]

Gavaskar

 

[zen]

6 hours ago, zen said:

 

One of the reasons that when Pujara scores and Ind does well is he can make it count with a big inning (cover up for others failures). Some of the others may score a good looking 50 that the commentators may praise but that is about it. They should be pushing themselves like Pujara to make it count when they are "in". Overseas, even though you have 11 players, not everyone is going to be consistent or effective in "away" conditions, therefore, those who find form have to try to score big. 

 

At Adelaide, for e.g., Pujara scored 123 when the next best score was 37. If he had scored a 60,  esp. if it were a good looking one that commentators praised, it would still be considered a good effort by many, but Pujara pushed himself to get a 100+ in that environment and cover for others. That is the difference b/w Pujara and some of the other batsmen. 

 

To add to the above, another example is the 4th test in Eng where Pujara scored 132*. Next best score was 46.