Five most boring batsmen to watch.

[BacktoCricaddict]

Best cures for insomnia that I have watched:

 

(1) Geoff Boycott

(2) Chris Tavare

(3) Rahul Dravid

(4) Kamal Tandon (never played tests, but was an allrounder who occasionally opened for Karnataka)

(5) Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Edited July 19, 2024 by BacktoCricaddict

[Lord]

Dravid has a 20 ball 50

 

 

My list from those I watch

 

Pujara

Karlos Braithwaite

Cook

Jadeja

KL 

 

[MumInd]

pujara...

sanjay bangar....

SS das....

sachin tendiya when he would go selfish mode and not play any shot on the offside....

Akkash chopra....

[Strangering]

All batsmen are boring to watch after watching Sachin for 20 years. 

[coffee_rules]

1 hour ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Best cures for insomnia that I have watched:

 

(1) Geoff Boycott

(2) Chris Tavare

(3) Rahul Dravid

(4) Kamal Tandon (never played tests, but was an allrounder who occasionally for Karnataka)

(5) Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Quite an age revealing post Anna!  Kamal Tandon is even before my time.
 

I would go with

 

- Ravi Shastri , esp in ODIs

- Atapattu

- Mahanama 

-  Asanka Gurusinha

- Chetan Chauhan

-Aakash Chopra

- WV Raman

- S Badrinath

- Allan Border , found him very ugly

- Jimmy  Adams - He was called Padams . Scored a century against India in 1994 using his Pads mainly. 

Edited July 19, 2024 by coffee_rules

[Laaloo]

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[Gollum]

Dravid

Pujara

Jadeja

Amla

Kallis

[Tillu]

Younis Khan

Shai Hope

[coffee_rules]

All Bangladesh Test batsman!

[rageaddict]

Dravid by far

Shiv Sundar Das

Pujara

Kallis

Chanderpaul 

Amla

Jonathan Trott

Alistair Cook

Azhar Ali

T Samaraweera

Younis Khan in Odis

 

Labushagne and Khwaja among the present era batters.

 

Also Mohamed Rizwan 

[Frustrated]

Kela in a KO match

 

[maniac]

Pujara

Alistair Cook

Azhar Ali

Akash Chopra

One slot open for the countless journeymen cricketers who bored the crap out of me over the years.

 

Dravid was alright in the last 4-5 years of his career. So giving him a pass even though more than boring he played a lot of selfish innings. Similarly Dhoni was extremely boring to watch in his last few years but when he started he was box office.

[maniac]

@velu @Laaloo Dhoni most boring batsmen before NRR

 

Most entertaining batsman after NRR

[Frustrated]

8 minutes ago, maniac said:

Pujara

Alistair Cook

Azhar Ali

Akash Chopra

One slot open for the countless journeymen cricketers who bored the crap out of me over the years.

 

Dravid was alright in the last 4-5 years of his career. So giving him a pass even though more than boring he played a lot of selfish innings. Similarly Dhoni was extremely boring to watch in his last few years but when he started he was box office.

Akash Chopra doesnot qualify as a batsman.  A guy who became popular only after quitting cricket can't be considered as a batsman.  

[velu]

25 minutes ago, maniac said:

@velu @Laaloo Dhoni most boring batsmen before NRR

 

Most entertaining batsman after NRR

 

Thala most interesting batsmen when RRR is arnd 8

[Ultimate_Game]

Most of Indian openers who opened alongside Sehwag or around that time...

 

Deep Dasgupta

SS Das

Akash Copra

 

Won't discuss Pak and B'desh batters as that would be a cheap shot given their standard and talent level. A couple of WI batsmen round the list...

 

Jimmy Padams

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

 

[Gollum]

Boring is quite often good in test cricket. Wish Ashwin the batsman were a bit more boring instead of wanting to feel every ball, Jadeja achieved his full potential by being boring, as did Kallis, Chandepaul, Cook etc.

[Frustrated]

Zimbabar (while batting against non-minnows)

[BacktoCricaddict]

18 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Boring is quite often good in test cricket. Wish Ashwin the batsman were a bit more boring instead of wanting to feel every ball, Jadeja achieved his full potential by being boring, as did Kallis, Chandepaul, Cook etc.

True. But there's a limit. Back before you were born, there was Boycott and Tavare and others who were simply boring for the sake of being boring in an already boring era.

[Prabhdeep Singh]

Younis Khan

Pujara

Alastair Cook

Paul Collingwood

Azhar Ali