Do modern cricketers lack grit, determination ?

[CG]

When i watched guys like steve waugh who without greatest of technique could just overcome all his faults by his mental strength or even kumble who just batted and bowled well above his talents with pure determination,On a minefield in sydney he was playing when slater mentioned about kumble attitude ans mental strength.

[trueblu]

MSD has both.

[vamos_rafa]

In general, grafting is an art which seems to have gone out of fashion these days.

[Sidhoni]

We see so many clean sweeps these days. The no. of drawn matches has gone down, that means to an extent batsmen no longer have the grit to fight it out and save test matches.

[flamy]

Gambhir comes to mind.

[BeautifulGame]

Greame Smith is the one comes closest in test cricket And then there is evergreen Chanderpaul

[fineleg]

The era of T20. Test cricket - you need to be able to go through sessions where the ball is dominating, and you need to defend, survive and grit it out. This is an era of T20 which is reducing good quality of defensive batting.