The Indian top 6 batmen's form since World Cup 2003

[King]

Vote for the players you think deserve a place. The choice can be multiple. BTW don't vote because some have played marvelously well over the years or in the last decade or at the start of this decade. Just vote based on the stats below. The 6 batmen's score since the World cup 2003. How many guys do you think deserve the place? I see only Rahul Dravid has scored enough to warrant a place and also can be accorded a failed series or two. Rest of them has just been treading along. Few good knocks but they pretty much lack consistency and haven't really done enough not to be questioned about their place in the team. Now wonder we have people asking for most of these guys to be dropped. Some want to keep Ganguly but drop Tendulkar. Some want to keep Tendulkar but drop Ganguly. Some want to bring in Yuvaj in place of Laxman and some want Dhoni gone. I think everyone one of these batsmen barring perhaps Rahul Dravid and to certain extent Jaffer deserve flak. Jaffer : Vs England at home : 81, 100,31, 17 and 11 VS WI in WI : 10,1,212,43,60,54,1 and 1 VS SA in SA : 9, 4, 26, 28, 116 and 2 Vs Bangladesh in Bangladesh : 0,0,138* VS England in England : 58 and 8 Rahul Dravid : Vs NZ at home : 222, 73, 13 and 5 Vs Australia in Aus : 1, 43*, 233, 72*, 49, 92, 38 and 91* Vs Pak in Pak : 6,33,0 and 270 Vs Aus in Ind : 0,60,26,21,2, 31* and 27 Vs SA at home : 54, 80 and 47* Vs BD in BD : 0 and 160 Vs Pak at home : 50, 3, 110, 135, 22 and 16 Vs Zim in Zim : 77 and 98 Vs SL at home : 32, 24 and 53 Vs Pak in Pak : 128*, 103, 5*,3 and 2 Vs Eng at home : 40, 71, 95, 42*, 52 and 9 Vs WI in WI : 49, 62, 146, 22, 68* and 81 Vs SA in SA : 32, 1, 11, 5, 29 and 47. Vs BD in BD : 61, 2 and 129 Vs Eng in Eng : 2 and 9 Sachin Tendulkar Vs NZ at home : 8,7,55 and 1 Vs Aus in Aus : 0, 1, 37, 0, 44, 241* and 60* Vs Pak in Pak : 194*, 2, 8 and 1 Vs Aus at home : 8,2,5 and 55 Vs SA at home : 3, 20 and 32* Vs BD in BD : 248* and 36 Vs Pak at home : 94, 52, 52, 41 and 16 Vs SL at home : 22, 109, 16, 23 and 19 Vs Pak in Pak : 14, 23 and 26 Vs Eng at home : 16, 28*, 4, 1 and 34 Vs SA in SA : 44,14,63,0,64 and 14 Vs BD in BD : 101, 31 and 122* Vs Eng : 37 and 16 Saurav Ganguly Vs NZ at home : 100* and 25 Vs Aus in Aus : 144,2,12,37,73 and 16 Vs Pak in Pak : 77 and 45 Vs Aus at home : 45,5 and 9 Vs SA at home : 57 and 40 Vs BD in BD : 71 and 88 Vs Pak at home : 21, 12, 12, 1 and 2 Vs Zim in Zim : 101 and 16 Vs SL at home : 5, 40 and 39 Vs Pak in Pak : 34 and 37 Vs Sa in SA : 51*, 25, 0, 26, 66 and 46 VS BD in BD : 100, 13 and 15 Vs Eng in Eng : 37 and 40 Laxman Vs NZ at home : 64, 44, 104* and 67* Vs Aus in Aus : 75, 24*, 148, 32, 19, 18 and 178 Vs Pak in Pak : 29, 11, 13 and 71 Vs Aus at home : 31, 3, 4, 13, 2, 1 and 69 Vs SA at home : 9 and 38 VS BD in BD : 32 and 9 Vs Pak at home : 58, 0, 24, 79* and 5 Vs Zim in zim : 140 and 8 Vs SL at home : 5, 69, 11, 104 and 5 Vs Pak in Pak : 0*, 90, 8*, 19 and 21 Vs Eng at home : 0 and 08* Vs WI in WI : 29,31,0,100,63,18 and 16 Vs SA in Sa : 28,73,50*,15,13 and 1 Vs Eng in Eng : 15 and 39 Dhoni Vs SL at home : 30,5,51*,49 and 14 Vs Pak in Pak : 148,13 and 18 Vs Eng at home : 5,16,16,64 and 5 Vs WI in WI : 19,69,9,29,20,3 and 19 Vs SA in SA : 5,18,34 and 47 Vs BD in BD : 36,6,17* and 51* Vs Eng : 0 and 76* Yuvraj Singh Vs NZ at home : 20, 5* Vs Pak in Pak : 59, 112, 12 and 47 Vs Aus at home : 5, 27, 8 and 7* Vs Zim at Zim : 12 and 25 Vs SL at home : 0, 77*, 0 and 75 Vs Pak in Pak : 4, 45 and 122 Vs Eng at home : 15, 37 and 12 vs WI in WI : 23,39,2,0,8*,19 and 13

[King]

Added Yuvraj Singh, he looks the worst of all going by that stats. He's hardly done anything of noteworthy. No wonder he's not been picked too often.

[Predator_05]

I accidently forgot to vote for Dravid. Can you add one more vote for Dravid under my name please Ravi ? Thanks

[Ram]

I say the poll question is flawed. You cant say someone deserves a place based on stats from the last 4 years. We should consider present form and potential for future.

[The Outsider]

Done Predzz and added one for Tendulkar too on your behalf.

[Predator_05]

I say the poll question is flawed. You cant say someone deserves a place based on stats from the last 4 years. We should consider present form and potential for future.

Exactamente, mi amigo. Tendulkar in 2003 was far better than he is now, as was Laxman, and especially Rahul Dravid (who reached his peak then). They have all changed since then. My yardstick of choice is from the home series vs Sri Lanka and onwards.

[Ram]

Exactamente, mi amigo. Tendulkar in 2003 was far better than he is now, as was Laxman, and especially Rahul Dravid (who reached his peak then). They have all changed since then. My yardstick of choice is from the home series vs Sri Lanka and onwards.

I am waiting till the end of this series to give my call on Tendulkar , Laxman and maybe Ganguly. If none of them come up with SIGNIFICANT contributions in helping us either win or save a test match , I would definitely review my stand then, especially on Sachin.

[King]

I say the poll question is flawed. You cant say someone deserves a place based on stats from the last 4 years. We should consider present form and potential for future.

I don't get you. I took last world cup as a check point. It doesn't mean you have to look at the score immediately after the WC'03 and vote for the players. You could even use the last 2 years or form from the last year. It is easy to pick only one or two from the poll anyways considering most have been quite bad over the years. Even the likes of Laxman and Yuvi haven't done enough over the last couple of years when the opportunity was provided with. They could have done well and none could have challenged their place.