Was Vishwanath a better batsmen against pace than any other Indian batsmen?

[Straight Drive]

I followed Indian team since 1971. Sunny was easily the best batsman. Amarnath had peaked in 1982 in what was the toughest attack faced by Indian batsmen against the pace quartet of WI that too at their home. iirc he scored about 550  runs against them. Vishy used to struggle against swing . He relatively used to play better in Australian conditions though on the odd ocassions. He thrived on home conditions in lack of swing as he was wonderful against spinners. Having said that Vishy was one our our top player though in some conditions. Wadekar was awesome against Kiwis and England, both series which we won. Engineer too made good use of his county experience even though he was a wicket keeper primarily. Sardesai and Wadekar played well in tougher series although they were not rated as much. To me they were under rated cricketers. Wadekar batted at one down even then he handed the tough conditions lot better in NZ and England.

Edited February 13, 2019 by Straight Drive

[Dil Dil India]

1 hour ago, rkt.india said:

Pace is pace roads or not.  Akhtar cleaned up both SRT and Dravid by sheer pace in India.

That's a massive oversimplification. Akhtar in Perth isn't the same as Akhtar on slow subcontinent road. Regardless, Tendu never even played Pakistan in his peak aside from 3 tests in 98-99 where he was run-out once, out to Saqlain THRICE and Mustaq Ahmed once.  And Akhtar only played one of these tests IIRC

Edited February 13, 2019 by Dil Dil India

[Straight Drive]

Some new votes take Sachin to 11. Sunny stuck at 4. 

[Straight Drive]

Sachin - 12

Sunny - 4

 

One sided victory.