Defining series for each player

[vvvslaxman]

What do you think the best series for a given player? I'll start Laxman 2001 series vs Australia Vengsarkar 1986 English Tour Mohinder 1983 West Indies Tour along 1982/83 Pakistan tour Gavaskar 1970/71 debut series vs West Indies Azharuddin 1984/85 debut series vs England Kapil dev 1978/79 vs Pakistan at home

[SLICKR392]

Dravid - Adelaide Test 2003

[Sehwag1830]

Dravid : ENG 2002

[vvvslaxman]

Dravid - Adelaide Test 2003

I think series where he made 3 centuries in a row in England which led to him becoming a world no.1 batsman and wisden cricketer of the year was a defining series for him.

[Sehwag1830]

Sehwag: CT 2002(ODI) , AUS tour:2003 test

[SLICKR392]

I think series where he made 3 centuries in a row in England which led to him becoming a world no.1 batsman and wisden cricketer of the year was a defining series for him.

Yes, going by a whole series.

[Sid]

Yuvi : SA tour of India 2005 Before this Yuvi was still just a good ODI batsman but after this series he was a different beast.I think it was start of 3 back to back man of the series for him.

[maniac]

Ganguly- can be classified as a comeback+debut in 1996 Eng tour-Seriously I thought he was a quota candidate but then went on acheive great heights Kumble-1992-93 England tour of India or India's tour of SA 1992-debatable SRT-1991 aus tour-People always knew he was a prodigy but that tour made him,given the amount of articles that started to pop up about him around that time. VVS-2001 Aus tour of India Bhajji-2001 Aus tour of India Dravid-1996 debut tour of England Srinath-1996 tour of England-his first real challenge as the spearhead of our bowling-sign of things to come Except for VVS/Bhajji,Most players careers are defined in overseas series

[maniac]

Prsad-India's tour of South Africa 1996-97-Outbowled Srinath in some spells and for all it's worth was the 2nd best seamer in India at that time Sehwag-South Africa tour 2001-202 Dhoni-2005-2006 tour of Pak

[Sooda]

Zaheer- England 07

[1983-2011]

Zaheer Khan, Test Series vs England in 2007

[Sehwag1830]

joginder sharma : final T20 2007

[Laaloo]

Rohit Sharma - TBA

[Utalk]

Younis khan tour to India 2005. He was considered a decent batsman before that but 147 in calcutta and 267 in banglore established him as a true class player. From here he went on to average 60 over next 7 years.

[Utalk]

Saqlain the test bowler announced himself in Ind 99.

[ravishingravi]

Shoaib Akhtar in Asian test chmpionship

[G_B_]

Ravindra Jadeja 2010 T20 WC

[The Outsider]

What do you think the best series for a given player? Gavaskar 1970/71 debut series vs West Indies

For me, India's tour to England in '79.

Azharuddin 1984/85 debut series vs England

India's tour to England in '90.

Kapil dev 1978/79 vs Pakistan at home

As a batsman, India's tour to England in '82 and as a bowler West Indies in India in '83.

[Khalpat]

^^ I agree on the part of Azharuddin, that was the best series for him and specially his inning in Lords I have not seen better batting then that. I guess he made 169 or something.

[Pagalpanti]

2001 was special for Laxman but I guess he got his big break in Sydney 1999.