Stylish batsmen you liked

I've now decided who's the most elegant batsman i've seen, the one I got the most joy out of watching and that fella goes by the name of Courtney Walsh.  Watching him bat to spinners was a joy, ball spinning and bat ending up between his legs.

My avatar tells a lot about whom I like most - like the stylists - previously had Martyn in my avatar. And I have also noticed that the new generation of batsmen is effective but not stylish. I am afraid we wont find more stylish batsmen around as the game is changing so rapidly. They will be a lot of accumulators and improvisers - but no real elegant and stylish players.

I think he's a funny story, 6 games with only 1 run under his belt haha, that's funny.

I respect your opinion matey. VVS isn't that bad a choice anyways.

Mark Waugh, Gower and Martyn for me in order.

Guess you haven't seen much of Waugh or Gower than spinny

agreed. Mark Waugh is the most stylish I have come across to. Gower comes closer among those players I have watched batting.

Lehmann's technique looked disgusting too! Didn't do too bad to averaged 57 in first class cricket though

No No I didn't mean you called him stylish I just said you mentioned his name as someone who played for Pak a lot. By no means is he stylish and nor would you of all people, someone who saw him more than I did, consider him to be stylish. He's in the Katich/Lehmann/Chanderpaul category without a doubt.

Zuhair you mention Ijaz Ahmed. The bloke loved playing my boys and has one of the best records against Australia. So many of his tons were against the Aussie side. However I would probably regard him as the LEAST stylish batsman!!!

I guess we can conclude that the idiom 'style over substance' isn't necessarily what's needed. Although for the viewers like ourselves it's great to watch the likes of Mark Waugh, Martyn, Gower, Laxman, Hooper (as I wrote a serial underachiever but Warne rated him as the batsman who probably had the best footwork against spin) even if all those players weren't the best in the side in terms of runs scored.

Do you guys prefer seeing batsmen who slaughter attacks like a Cairns or Klusener or someone who plays shots with expert timing and delicacy like M. Waugh or Laxman?

For mine it's definitely the latter. I must say any batsman who has a super late cut, wristy leg glances and square drive/cut tends to be a very stylish player.

George Bailey is the captain of Tasmania here in Australia. Pretty decent bat, but first class standard at best. I've seen him a couple of times, he looks good but nothing memorable to be honest.

Mark Waugh is no.1 in my books and perhaps I'm bias.... everything Waugh did had style. From his batting to his brilliant fielding and even to his handy and versatile bowling.

George Bailey? trying to remember who he is. Yes I agree tendulkar can at times be a little ugly. Very good to watch, compact, technically good and sound all round style but lacks the fluency of some others. I dont think sehwag is particularly stylish though.

Edited by punterrulz - 10 December 2009 at 10:09am

i forgot to mention that it was really not for their styles. you cant find much stylish batsmen from pakistan. Stylish Batsmen from this list would be Saeed Anwar, Gilchrist, Tendulkar, Yuvraj, Dravid and Ponting.
You have right Majid Khan was the most stylish pakistani Batsman.


Edited by kahmad - 09 December 2009 at 10:08am

I like them: Saeed Anwar, Lance Klusener, Gilchrist, Afridi, Tendulkar, Sehwag, Yuvraj, Dravid, Miandad, Ponting, Sangakarra, Viv Richards.

Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi Your choice matey, But ABD in my book is anything but stylish.

Compact,hard to get out on a roll,yes,but ABD stylish?
I don't really think so.

However I'll agree with Dravid Fan that I never really found Ganguly stylish!