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Best Test Opener At The Present Time
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Poll Question: who is the best test opener
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    Posted: 16 April 2009 at 7:37am
If Cook also gets back to his best or anywhere near to it, it is going to be a wonderful contest
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Yer, right in time for the Ashes, damnit !!
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Andrew Strauss is back as well mate !
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I dare say Katich, although being an Aussie I'm slightly bias. Smith, Katich and Gambhir are all in tremendous touch.
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the best opener is Gautam GambhirThumbs%20Up
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Looking at the current form of the players, G.Smith and G.Gambhir will be the best opening pairStar
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Sehwag and Gambhir for sure!
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Yea Gambhir, Sehwag and Smith all going great guns at present.
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Id say Virender Sehwag is currently the best opening batsman...
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Well he has had a long lay off. I think he needs some time to get back into the groove. And Rauf has not helped his cause.
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Maybe it has something to do with Asad Rauf.
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Thats because he is out of form.
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Originally posted by bladescape

Hayden:cause he is quite sollid and can be explosive as well.
 
He's not proving that point at the moment, is he?%20%20%20 He's playing poorly against India of late. I suppose he still generally makes a very good opener though, By the way he bats eg He has got a good defence and I have seen him attack well too.


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Sehwag,Smith or Hayden.
Take your pick.
I think that there are no really good openers at the current time but they really top the rest of them.
Sehwag:because I love to see him when he really blows an attack appart.
Hayden:cause he is quite sollid and can be explosive as well.
Smith:cause he just sits there and becomes hard to move,like a wall.
Though Jayasuria is good as well.

Edited by bladescape - 17 July 2008 at 3:13am
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I thought you were banned?
Even I thought so. He is back to (this) form.
I was in Lahore.
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Got to be hayden currently. But i will not too far to rate him the best ever!!
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Originally posted by bondy

I thought you were banned?
Even I thought so. He is back to (this) form.
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Ok, what's the deal here? You folks trying to rub salt in the wound for Pakistan not having any decent openers. You should've spared us from this torture by not including any opener from the Pakistan team. Especially not him...ugghhh...Farhat, anyone but him.
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Edited by bondy - 03 July 2008 at 12:40am
Good one Graham!
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Sehwag is a world class player but i dont think he is reliable so for me Hayden is the best test opener at present time.
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Virender sehwag , his last ten test centuries have been 150 plus scores, two triple centuries,fastest triple century against a decent attack ,excellent average ,good performance against good attacks,hes the most special batsmen at the moment as its amazing how much does he dominate a score card of india when he plays well ,FANTASTIC  in every sence of the word,  



Edited by jaysjay - 02 July 2008 at 11:00pm
for what a man would like to be true,that he more readily believes.
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Hayden is definitely my favourite, the walk down the pitch is second to none!
 
Apart from him, I'd be inclined to mention someone like Cook or Smith.
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That's Hayden's style and it works so no need fussing about it when it doesn't pay off.
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Verendar Sehwags got to be right up their. He's an exalent attacking batsmen. I don't know about Hayden, I've seen many times when he worked so hard to survive the opening pase attack, That he looses concentration and ends up edging the ball to the slips or the WK, In his 20's.
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Graem Smith, always has been and always will be.

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He said one of the best openers ever
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Considering the thread says 'present', then I'd be inclined to agree.
Good one Graham!
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Don't let form cloud your mind or stats for the matter.

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Hayden most be one of the best openers ever for both test and one day
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