20 most destructive Asian batsmen of all in order of merit?

[Harsh Thakor]

This is my list in order of merit of the most destructive batsmen of all from the Asian sub-continent.Not asessed for pure class or records but for sheer domination of bowling or destructivity.Strike rtae is a strong criteria,in addition to level of opposition and impact.

Sehwag
Jayasuriya
Afridi
Rohit Sharma
Kohli
Tendulkar
Mushtaq Ali
Anwar
Inzamam
Aravinda De Silva
Kapil Dev
Dhoni
Shrikanath
Zaheer Abbas
Azharuddin
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Gundappa Vishwanath
Majid Khan
Salim Malik


Viru at the top because he caused a blitzkreig for a sustained duration more than anyone.Jaya gave a new definition to batting with explosive hitting from 1996.Afridi set a stadium on fire like a Hercules God arriving.Tendulkar took domination to a crescendo never at the cost of supreme finesse.Kolhli manipulated afield like few could ever do,exhibiting batting intelligence rarely seen.Mushtaq Ali was the supreme stylist resembling a circus acrobat or magician.Rohit Sharma in recent times looked most like Viv Richards .Inzamam often carried the bat like a bludgeon.Anwar in full flow took domination to heights of divinity.Aravinda De Silva was artistry personified who could dissect the most impregnable fields.Kapil Dev could craete a hurricane with his great power.

Edited May 29, 2020 by Harsh Thakor

[raki05]

Afridi is more destructive than Rohit....if we are talking about loi Rohit is more destructive than anyone else. Only and can match him. Putting Afridi in the batting list is blasphemous to other batter.

[raki05]

19 hours ago, Harsh Thakor said:

This is my list in order of merit of the most destructive batsmen of all from the Asian sub-continent.Not asessed for pure class or records but for sheer domination of bowling or destructivity.Strike rtae is a strong criteria,in addition to level of opposition and impact.

Sehwag
Jayasuriya
Afridi
Rohit Sharma
Kohli
Tendulkar
Mushtaq Ali
Anwar
Inzamam
Aravinda De Silva
Kapil Dev
Dhoni
Shrikanath
Zaheer Abbas
Azharuddin
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Gundappa Vishwanath
Majid Khan
Salim Malik


Viru at the top because he caused a blitzkreig for a sustained duration more than anyone.Jaya gave a new definition to batting with explosive hitting from 1996.Afridi set a stadium on fire like a Hercules God arriving.Tendulkar took domination to a crescendo never at the cost of supreme finesse.Kolhli manipulated afield like few could ever do,exhibiting batting intelligence rarely seen.Mushtaq Ali was the supreme stylist resembling a circus acrobat or magician.Rohit Sharma in recent times looked most like Viv Richards .Inzamam often carried the bat like a bludgeon.Anwar in full flow took domination to heights of divinity.Aravinda De Silva was artistry personified who could dissect the most impregnable fields.Kapil Dev could craete a hurricane with his great power.

How Kapil is lower than disilva,Anwar and inzmam. Have you compared their odi SR.

[raki05]

And no Yuvraj Singh ....where you have place for de Silva and bunch of useless Pakistani.... But this is very much expect Ed from you.

[Ankit_sharma03]

No yuvraj, are you serious 

[raki05]

10 hours ago, Cricspin said:

Category 1-

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Sehwag 

Jayasurya

 

Category -2

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Tendulkar

Rohit Sharma

Virat Kohli

Dhoni

Yuvraj

T. Dilshan

 

Category 3-

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Afridi

Kapil Dev

 

 

Some of the Batsmen on that list were good batsmen, never felt destructive. They may have had a few games where the strike rate was 120+. By that rate even Dravid was explosive.. lol. He played some masterful innings with well over run a ball SR when it was not the norm.

Dravid has his name fastest odi 50 for India. It's amusing to see sidhu,desilva ,bunch of jehadi but no Yuvraj Singh.

[Nikola]

11 hours ago, Cricspin said:

Category 1-

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Sehwag 

Jayasurya

 

Category -2

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Tendulkar

Rohit Sharma

Virat Kohli

Dhoni

Yuvraj

T. Dilshan

 

Category 3-

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Afridi

Kapil Dev

 

 

Some of the Batsmen on that list were good batsmen, never felt destructive. They may have had a few games where the strike rate was 120+. By that rate even Dravid was explosive.. lol. He played some masterful innings with well over run a ball SR when it was not the norm.

Tendulkar had similar strike rate (91.43) to jayasurya (93.80) in 90s as opener with average of almost 50. Today odi greats like rohit and kohli have similar strike rate to what tendulkar & viv had 20+ years ago.

Edited May 31, 2020 by Nikola