Who was technically most sound out of Tendulkar, Dravid and Gavaskar?

[MechEng]

How different were they technically from each other?

 

Tendulkar is often quoted as the technically most perfect batsman, I never hear the same for Dravid and Gavaskar. How true is this claim about Tendulkar?

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1 hour ago, MechEng said:

How different were they technically from each other?

 

Tendulkar is often quoted as the technically most perfect batsman, I never hear the same for Dravid and Gavaskar. How true is this claim about Tendulkar?

Technically Tendulkar is more copybook than the other two. He had all the shots in his repertoire. Gavaskar did not have the backfoot game that SRT had. Also his weakness just outside the off stump was more prominent than SRT. SRT was supposed to be a freak, but did not live up to his potential compared to other modern day batsman.

[Ankit_sharma03]

Tendulkar 

[Stan AF]

Thalaivar Tendulkar. I dare say he achieved much lesser than what he was capable of. There was never a batsman more joy to watch than him. His back foot punches bludgeoning the ball  were a statement of strength.

[FischerTal]

Is this even a question?

 

hands down midget was the perfect Textbook batsman.. if not for tennis elbow and the whole fixing saga that affected his mental game, he would have achieved far greater heights. 

[Stan AF]

1 hour ago, FischerTal said:

Is this even a question?

 

hands down midget was the perfect Textbook batsman.. if not for tennis elbow and the whole fixing saga that affected his mental game, he would have achieved far greater heights. 

And a better team with him.

[MechEng]

2 hours ago, FischerTal said:

Is this even a question?

 

hands down midget was the perfect Textbook batsman.. if not for tennis elbow and the whole fixing saga that affected his mental game, he would have achieved far greater heights. 

I thought Dravid played swing/seam better than Tendulkar.

[Trichromatic]

6 minutes ago, MechEng said:

I thought Dravid played swing/seam better than Tendulkar.

Like in SA?

[Gollum]

Tendu, his drawback was in the mental department otherwise perfect textbook technique. 

[MechEng]

53 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

Like in SA?

England! Broad and Anderson in prime!

[coffee_rules]

Gavaskar

Aila

Dravid

 

you can’t have inferior technique, be an opener and average 50 in an era , where it is rare. Tendulkar might be on par, but was not tough mentally.  96 on a minefield against 2 spinners. Performance against pace quartet. People needed different set of skills to be successful in the 70s. Instead of batsmen who look like gladiators with broad heavy bats

[zen]

Mental strength can be considered a part of technical strength too 

[Jimmy Cliff]

53 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Gavaskar

Aila

Dravid

 

you can’t have inferior technique, be an opener and average 50 in an era , where it is rare. Tendulkar might be on par, but was not tough mentally.  96 on a minefield against 2 spinners. Performance against pace quartet. People needed different set of skills to be successful in the 70s. Instead of batsmen who look like gladiators with broad heavy bats

Oh boy! You don't wanna go there .

[sandeep]

4 hours ago, MechEng said:

I thought Dravid played swing/seam better than Tendulkar.

No, not even close.  

 

Its only when you compare both of them post 2005, when Tendy was a shadow of his best, and Dravid had hit his absolute prime, that it gets close.  And even then, you have multiple examples like Tendy vs Steyn in SA etc.  

[sandeep]

1 hour ago, zen said:

Mental strength can be considered a part of technical strength too 

Dravid's 'mental strength' is overhyped.  

 

If he was so 'mentally strong' why did he consistently **** the bed against Aus, both home and away, until the 2nd innings of that Kolkata test? Not many remember that John Wright demoted his ass down to #6 in Kolkata, and kept him there for better part of a year.  And deservedly so.  

[sandeep]

1 hour ago, coffee_rules said:

Gavaskar

Aila

Dravid

 

you can’t have inferior technique, be an opener and average 50 in an era , where it is rare. Tendulkar might be on par, but was not tough mentally.  96 on a minefield against 2 spinners. Performance against pace quartet. People needed different set of skills to be successful in the 70s. Instead of batsmen who look like gladiators with broad heavy bats

Gavaskar himself has gone on record to say that Tendy has better technique than him, that while his defence was solid, he didn't possess the ability that Sachin had, to dispatch really good balls to the boundary.  Of course there was a bit of forced humility in that, and SMG himself was good enough to hit many a good ball for 4, but there was truth in it as well.  

[Gollum]

1 hour ago, coffee_rules said:

Gavaskar

Aila

Dravid

 

you can’t have inferior technique, be an opener and average 50 in an era , where it is rare. Tendulkar might be on par, but was not tough mentally.  96 on a minefield against 2 spinners. Performance against pace quartet. People needed different set of skills to be successful in the 70s. Instead of batsmen who look like gladiators with broad heavy bats

Misleading. His record against WI and Aus, both paint the wrong picture. 

[coffee_rules]

2 minutes ago, sandeep said:

Gavaskar himself has gone on record to say that Tendy has better technique than him, that while his defence was solid, he didn't possess the ability that Sachin had, to dispatch really good balls to the boundary.  Of course there was a bit of forced humility in that, and SMG himself was good enough to hit many a good ball for 4, but there was truth in it as well.  

Gavaskar also says, Vishvanath was a better batsman than him. He doesn’t know how to be a critique like Benaud or even Chappelli. Gavaskar is the last one I will go for his opinion on Tendulkar. His bias shows up every time he speaks. In the 90s his commentary was always Tendulkar- centric. 
By technique, I mean

defence

When to leave

when to block

When to duck

How to play shots on offside without going uppish

hook shots on the ground

Legside or onside play 

Tendulkar is god when it comes to playing perfect shots even on good deliveries and get 4s, but there is more to that in batting technique. Tendulkar had developed a weakness on playing offside , when he used to reach out to play. His highest 241 was played without a boundary on the offside. 

[Gollum]

17 minutes ago, sandeep said:

No, not even close.  

 

Its only when you compare both of them post 2005, when Tendy was a shadow of his best, and Dravid had hit his absolute prime, that it gets close.  And even then, you have multiple examples like Tendy vs Steyn in SA etc.  

Sachin better against seam, Dravid better against swing. 

[coffee_rules]

4 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Misleading. His record against WI and Aus, both paint the wrong picture. 

If you are taking about 1982 WI, he was at fag end playing for his 10000 runs only