Cricketers closest to each other in terms of playing style?

[Harsh Thakor]

In this list I am compiling a list in order of merit of cricketers who resembled each other in playing style most.Reminiscent of clones.

 

1.Kapil Dev-Ian Botham

Took cricketing joy  or entertainment to its ultimate height in every department of the game.Spectacular strikers of the ball,great masters of seam movement at fast-medium pace,highly intelligent bowlers ,could both pull of the most stunning catches and often champions in a crisis with the bat.

 

 

2.Curtly Ambrose-Joel Garner

 

Took accuracy to its pinnacle and were virtually unplayable when they banged the ball in to rise from a good length.

 

 

3.Wasim Akram-Alan Davidson

 

Both genuinely quick  and accurate with mastery of control and seam.Also equally poficient with the bat capable of delivering the most striking blows.Wasim was more gifted and versatile with his mastery of reverse swing but Davidson could even surpass him as a performer.Both scaled heights in all-round skill in left arm pace bowling which have never been  surpassed.

 

 

4.Don Bradman-Sachin Tendulkar

 

Both were short but took domination to regions of the divine.,looking like cricket's ultimate batting machines.Bradman more unorthodox .Both masters of the pull shot and in the 'V.'

 

5.Dennis Lillee-Andy Roberts

 

Almost equally quick and versatile with mastery of the slower ball,leg-cutter,boucer and outswinger.

 

 

6.Sunil Gavaskar-Hanif Mohammad

 

Cricketing equivalents of a boulder .The ultimate epitome sof  concentration and technical skill ,but above all unselfish and loyally served their countries.

 

 

7.Zaheer Abbas-Mohammad Azharuddin

 

Supreme grace personalized carrying bat like a wand.Their deftest touches would send the best balls to the fence like the touches f a sculptor or painter.

 

 

8.Viv Richards-A.B.Devilliers

 

Blended power and imagination in regions of the sublime.

 

 

9.Courtney Walsh-Micheal Holding

 

Grace personified as few pacemen ever did with a charasterictic flowing action.Also very intelligent.

 

 

10.Rohan Kanhai-Alvin Kalicharan

 

Great technique combined with the feel of a genius who on their day to bating domination to heights unexplored.

 

 

11.Majid Khan-David Gower

 

Lazy footwork but nonone could surpass them for their sheer effortlessness .At their best could sit with the Gods of Plympus.

 

 

12.Richard Hadlee-Glen Mcgrath

 

No pacemen posessed more control .On a green top arguably they had no equal pitching the ball at the perfect length in the corridor.Hadlee was the quicker who moved the ball more and action more corect but Mcgrath was a marginally more intelligent bolwer in assesing weaknesses and could be more innovative or deceptive.

 

 

13.Javed Miandad-Steve Waugh

 

Cricket's ultimate battlers with great ability to adapt and improvise.Niggled opponents like few ever did even if technically unorthodox.

 

 

14.Mark Waugh-Martin Crowe

 

Both very graceful and technically sound and masters in manipulating a cricket ball.On their day close to the best batsmen of al time.,able to penetrate every gap on the field.

 

 

15=Saed Anwar-Arthur Morris

 

Displayed attacking agression at it's zenith launching blistering attacks like few openers ever could.

 

 

15=.Kevin Pieterson-Inzamam Ul Haq

 

Both masters against genuine pace with razor sharp reflexes and high penchant for stroke production in any conditions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 18, 2019 by Harsh Thakor

[velu]

inzamam averaging 30 in Australia and 31 in south africa ( in tests ) 

 

26 in australia , 24 in NZ and 27 in south africa ( in ODI's )

 

    

[raki05]

This guy hype Pakistani batsmens like even Pakistani don't hype.

[Bhaiyya]

 Why settle the greatest of the great, Majid Bhai with a petty title- Gods of Olympus, he should be honored with the title befitting his stature- 'The TITAN'.

[SK_IH]

Virat-Viv

[Shaukat]

KP and Banton are spitting images of eachother,  Same Backlift,Trigger movement ,Stroke making.

 

Im hella Excited Since Kp is my all time favourite batter