Javier Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 ridiculous to see FTB /HTB's like Sehwag being rated ahead of even SRT. What has Sehwag done in countries like Australia, SA or England to deserve that?
Sachinism Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 Oh no now fans will turn on their own Indian players just to prove their other Indian player is better
Sidhoni Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 ridiculous to see FTB /HTB's like Sehwag being rated ahead of even SRT. What has Sehwag done in countries like Australia' date= SA or England to deserve that? I am not agreeing on Sehwag ahead of Goddy, but ust to tell u that u r wrong when you say that Sehwag is poor in Australia:- 750 runs @ an average of 62.5 in 12 innings of 6 matches.
zen Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 Overall: Gavaskar - I remember how we were being gutted in SA by Donald and many were like if Gavaskar were playing Tendulkar - consistent performances over the years Sehwag - for the breath taking knocks he plays against the new ball. Has 3 scores over 290 Dravid - the wall. And at one point was very prolific in tests Lax man - brilliant when on song. Could have been more consistent. Probably the best player to watch when he is playing at his best
Cricket Tragic Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 That is a personal opinion and I've never been a fan of Sachin at the test level. :cantstop: I can bet my house that you started following cricket around 2003-2005. It's like fans who started watching cricket in 89/90 who didn't rate King Richards. There was this chap the other day who said that Brian Lara was overrated since Lara never made runs after he started watching cricket. :hysterical: People who started watching cricket in 2007 (or after) might well think that Dravid is rubbish. I met a chap a couple of months back and he said that Laxman was the worst Indian batsmen he had seen (watches ODIs and circus league wonly).
phaedrus Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 Tendulkar Gavaskar Dravid Laxman/Vishy/Sehwag (2 out of the 3 ofcourse) might have included Azhar had he not been a cheating bastard.
punjabi_khota Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 ridiculous to see FTB /HTB's like Sehwag being rated ahead of even SRT. What has Sehwag done in countries like Australia' date= SA or England to deserve that?
tatters Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 Tendulkar (big gap) Gavaskar (big gap) Dravid (big gap) Laxman/Viswanath (joint 4th) ...
Raghav_12 Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 I just wonder how M Amarnath keeps on missing all these discussions. Not that he would have made it to top 5 for me as well, but he surely deserves a mention when we are talking about great Indian batsmen. Most standout feature of his batting was his performances against real fast bowling. While he averages mere 30 on Indian pitches, his average was 51 on away test matches and that time there was no BD or Zim to pad up your averages. This average of 51 was not on some small sample size but for a size of 37 test matches. Even for these away test matches, he had saved his best for the countries having most threatening of pace attacks of his time i.e. WI, Pak and Australia. In all of these three countries he averages around 55. Without his often run-in's with cricket adminstration in India, he could have had a better career record. It is kind of pity that despite having a career spanning 20 years (1969-1989), he played just 69 test matches. Following is one interesting quote I picked from wikipedia: Gideon Haigh writing in The Age says: "In an era replete with fast bowling and unrestricted in use of the bouncer, he never stopped hooking - despite many incentives to do so. He received a hairline fracture of the skull from Richard Hadlee, was knocked unconscious by Imran Khan, had teeth knocked out by Malcolm Marshall and was hit in the jaw so painfully by Jeff Thomson in Perth that he could eat only ice cream for lunch. 'What separated Jimmy from the others,' Michael Holding said, 'was his great ability to withstand pain . . . A fast bowler knows when a batsman is in pain. But Jimmy would stand up and continue.
Bublu Bhuyan Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 1. Tendulkar (ahead of Sunny by a hairline) 2. Sunny (then a huge gap) 3. Dravid 4. Laxman 5. Sehwag.
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