Very good but extremely boring to watch X1

[maniac]

only players I have watched. Obviously picking the best among the boring ones I have watched. It’s a personal choice. 
 

Also Jadeja’s fielding is fun to watch but his other skills are a cure for insomnia. Similarly C. Walsh is one of my all time favs but found his bowling very mechanical. Siddle is one of the most boring Fast bowlers I have seen play for Australia. C. Martin’s batting was entertaining for the wrong reason so not counting that.

 

also excluding Boycott, Gavaskar etc whom I haven’t seen live except maybe some vague memories of Sunny from WC 87 but he was entertaining from what I remember there

 

 

A.Cook

Azhar.Ali

C.Pujara

J.Kallis

S.Chanderpaul

T. Samaraweera

R. Shastri

R.Jadeja

P.Siddle

C. Martin

C. Walsh

 

That’s a decent team tbh. Can beat most teams with flair :)

 

There are other names I thought of like Bavuma etc but they haven’t accomplished anything of note yet or are still starting out.

 

Edited July 20, 2022 by maniac

[BacktoCricaddict]

Good team, but there's got to be a place for Dravid there somewhere, no? 

[maniac]

3 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Good team, but there's got to be a place for Dravid there somewhere, no? 

I enjoyed Dravid on the rare occasion he played attacking cricket. Very elegant to watch.

 

i picked players who looked boring even while playing attacking cricket :) case in point Sir Jadeja. It’s sar tan se juda type blasphemy calling him a defensive cricketer but just lacks the oomph with bat or ball.

[zen]

Most of those guys in the 11 above are not swashbucklers (Swashbucklers vs. Circumspects), but I wouldn't term them as boring. I admire the gusty qualities of many of these cricketers. 

 

 

 

 

[maniac]

Just now, zen said:

Most of those guys in the 11 above are not swashbucklers (Swashbucklers vs. Circumspects), but I wouldn't term them as boring. I admire the gusty qualities of many of these cricketers. 

 

 

 

 

whats your fav Jadeja knock or P. Siddle spell :)

[zen]

Just now, maniac said:

whats your fav Jadeja knock or P. Siddle spell :)

 

For Jadeja, probably the 100 he hit in the last test in Eng (his bowling is mostly conditions dependent) ... Siddle took a hattrick iirc 

 

[coffee_rules]

Attractive play is about aesthetics. Pujara and Dravid are good examples of Melatoninsque batting. It is boring to even listen to them in interviews . My XI:

 

Atapattu 

Aakash Chopra

DravidPujara

Adams (used to be called Padams)

Carl Hooper

Hashan Tilakaratne

Cronje

Ravi Shastri

Umar Gul

Sami

Venkatesh Prasad

 

 

 

[zen]

A "boring" 11 for me would be something like below (not sure where it lies on the spectrum of "good"):

 

Rohit

Rahane

Manjrekar

S Iyer

Vihari 

Parthiv 

Jadeja

Ashwin

Prabhakar 

Bhuvi 

Ishant

12th man: Praveen (if the team needs to replace one of the spinners, Jadeja or Ashwin, with a pacer) 

 

Edited July 20, 2022 by zen

[maniac]

32 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Attractive play is about aesthetics. Pujara and Dravid are good examples of Melatoninsque batting. It is boring to even listen to them in interviews . My XI:

 

Atapattu 

Aakash Chopra

DravidPujara

Adams (used to be called Padams)

Carl Hooper

Hashan Tilakaratne

Cronje

Ravi Shastri

Umar Gul

Sami

Venkatesh Prasad

 

 

 

Attapattu was an elegant stroke maker in full flow. I liked his batting.

 

Cronje and boring?

 

Carl Hooper too was great to watch in full flow.

 

Actually one thing I admire about Pak fast bowlers is they constantly try for wickets even if they get smashed or ineffective. I will give them that, so I wouldn’t consider Gul and Sami boring.

 

it’s personal choice obviously but that’s my take on your list. Rest I agree with.

[Majestic]

Shaun Pollock was pretty boring as well if we are looking among great bowlers.

 

 

[Prabhdeep Singh]

1 hour ago, zen said:

A "boring" 11 for me would be something like below (not sure where it lies on the spectrum of "good"):

 

Rohit

Rahane

Manjrekar

S Iyer

Vihari 

Parthiv 

Jadeja

Ashwin

Prabhakar 

Bhuvi 

Ishant

12th man: Praveen (if the team needs to replace one of the spinners, Jadeja or Ashwin, with a pacer) 

 

 

Rohit boring?

 

That must be joke.

[zen]

1 minute ago, Prabhdeep Singh said:

 

Rohit boring?

 

That must be joke.

 

I actually try to switch off the TV when Rohit is batting esp. overseas (where he also tends to skip tests in difficult conditions)

[Prabhdeep Singh]

6 minutes ago, zen said:

 

I actually try to switch off the TV when Rohit is batting esp. overseas (where he also tends to skip tests in difficult conditions)

 

Ok I see, obviously in full flow Rohit is good to watch, not in boring category.

 

Overseas, he did well England I know small sample size.

 

India clearly missed his captaincy in the Birmingham Test.

Edited July 20, 2022 by Prabhdeep Singh

[coffee_rules]

2 hours ago, maniac said:

Attapattu was an elegant stroke maker in full flow. I liked his batting.

 

Cronje and boring?

 

Carl Hooper too was great to watch in full flow.

 

Actually one thing I admire about Pak fast bowlers is they constantly try for wickets even if they get smashed or ineffective. I will give them that, so I wouldn’t consider Gul and Sami boring.

 

it’s personal choice obviously but that’s my take on your list. Rest I agree with.

 

I wanted to put Mudassar Nazar as opener, but he was before me. My brother and father hated his batting. They spoke highly of Majid Khan and Zaheer Abbas. I have seen couple of innings of Atapattu, was very slow unattractive shot making. Maybe you have seen him play some good cricket. Somehow Carl Hooper is a right handed C'Paul, unusual for a WI cricketer  to bat ugly. Umar Gul qnd Sami were just plain fast and used to bowl straight, with no variation. I liked to watch them when Sehwag used to bat against them, as they would get mauled. Cronje bowling looked inncuous, but SRT found him very tough. He is a bowler in my team.

[Bigg Brother]

Add Ishant Sharma and Younis Khan. Don't know why people are putting Dravid's name.. He was pleasing to eyes..Playing at snail's pace doesn't mean he was boring. 

[vvvslaxman]

In contrast ugly but entertaining to watch :)

 

 

[nevada]

10 hours ago, Majestic said:

Shaun Pollock was pretty boring as well if we are looking among great bowlers.

 

 

Yes, boring bowler. But his batting was quite good. He was a clean striker of the ball and made batting look easy.

[nevada]

Graham Gooch and Allan Border are a must in any boring X1! Both tough as nails sonsabitches who never backed down from a battle, but boring to watch. 

[nevada]

12 hours ago, maniac said:

I enjoyed Dravid on the rare occasion he played attacking cricket. Very elegant to watch.

 

i picked players who looked boring even while playing attacking cricket :) case in point Sir Jadeja. It’s sar tan se juda type blasphemy calling him a defensive cricketer but just lacks the oomph with bat or ball.

If you watch just the highlight reel, Dravid is a very stylish, elegant batsman. Moreover, he became an attacking ODI batsman after taking up keeping duties. 

[Majestic]

Yes, Dravid is pretty stylish and elegant.