You thought Tendulkar has the best short jab straight drive? Look here

[King]

Top class straight and on drives by Sunny. The bats those days weren't as great but the timing by Sunil Gavaskar was top class in this inning.

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[Cricketics]

and that happenz to be the tied test match clip?? btw @ topic, amazing stroke play from gavaskar, truly genious he was and perhapz that mighty batting clip declares the class of man behind 34 test tonz

[King]

That's right Cricketics this is the one from the tied test. What a fantastic game that must have been? Boon, Deano, Border, Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Shastri at their best. Surely that test match should rate as one of "THE" best in the history of cricket.

[Cricketics]

yep i knew it was the tied test match..it surely was a fantastic game ravi.. they showed this game 7 days in a row back in 03 on tv in aus so i just clearly remember this..it revived my memory.. i remember this from 86 only.. . i got this one on disc too. amazing game and that umpire raised his bloody finger in the end for which he registered his name in history and made manninder singh a part of it too.. poor Shastri was left stranded @ non striker end

[King]

Yup that's right. I got this DVD a while ago and is still one of the preferred ones I watch every now and then.

[Guest dada_rocks]

was tie thanks to indina umpires penchant for writing his name in history books.. that guy apparnelty accepted he gave Maninder singh out because he wanted it to be tie.......sinsh was playing shot ball pitched a foot outside off-stump and even hit him at least half foot outside off stump and if u see the video umpires finger went up in a flash.. he didn't even think about it

[Ram]

There are good straight drives and then there are the ones by Sachin. We can see a million videos of a million batsman hitting a straight drives , but nothing can match Sachin's Punch , power , timing and placemnt in his's ones.

[gator]

even before i opened this thread, i knew it was Sunny, that you were talking about from the title of this thread.... his jab drives were amazing....

[Holysmoke]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gspJpc8h-w decide.

[Lurker]

Superb shot that. Thanks for sharing Ravi. His cover-drive off Mcdermott in the same video is also top class. Right on the knees. Great batsmanship.

[King]

Did you check the other 1985 B&H finals video Lurker?

[Holysmoke]

in this video, see the last ball of the second over. [googlevideo]9135779971261085955[/googlevideo] show me somebody else who can play that shot!

[Lurker]

Did you check the other 1985 B&H finals video Lurker?

Ravi, The ones I saw were of Siva and Shastri taking wickets. Were you talking about them? What a joy it was to see Shiva fox Mianded with a leggi and Sadanand Vishwanath taking off the bails with ease. :thumbs_up:

[dial_100]

what a lame thing to say ......Ramiz says if you cant get him out then get him injured....hahah.a... shame on ramiz.. Pak bowlers worth lot more than that..good hitting there by Indians