Who Has the best Batting technique
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Topic: Who Has the best Batting technique
Posted By: marto43
Subject: Who Has the best Batting technique
Date Posted: 13 February 2007 at 9:50am
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Pretty simple. lets hear your opinion on who is technichally the best batsmen in world cricket. Well I guess u cant go past tendulkar. Maybe damien martyn. I know her plays away from his body at the start of innings, but besides that. stands tall on the back foot. high elbow. always has his head over the ball. Let Me know. |
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Posted By: joelza1990
Date Posted: 13 February 2007 at 10:08am
| I'd have to say Ricky Ponting. He can go hard at the ball early but after that initial stage he's probably best technical players there is. I also like Collingwoods very simple but very effective. |
Posted By: marto43
Date Posted: 13 February 2007 at 10:11am
| I dunno about ponting. I guess he proably is there is just something about him. No doubting how good he is but... Kallis as well is another one. |
Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 13 February 2007 at 10:26am
| It would have been Dravid until he became slightly susceptible to the ball that nips back into him - look how many times he has been out bowled in the last couple of years. At the moment you'd have to say maybe Kallis is the one player with no real glaring flaw or weakness. |
Posted By: marto43
Date Posted: 13 February 2007 at 10:38am
| the only thing about kallis is he dosnt score fluently or quickly. not even so much that but he is proably to othordox. But he has a very good techique. |
Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 13 February 2007 at 11:53am
| He has all the shots, it is just unfortunate for anyone who has to watch him bat that he chooses to use them only rarely |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 13 February 2007 at 1:02pm
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So he does Clobs , but over the years I've seen him play every shot in the book! Looking around today I'd say there isn't a player who can compare to Barry Richards - just lovely to watch , picked the ball up so quickly and his feet,bat and body knew where they should be almost immediately - like all class players he seemed to have an age to place the ball. The one day game has affected all fine players today - there's much more playing across the line and slashing at wide ones. Of course they score quickly today , it's the modern game , but even the best get out to some ugly,ugly shots. ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: Vipera russelli
Date Posted: 13 February 2007 at 2:23pm
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How about Mohammed Yusuf and Kumar Sangakkara? Lazy elegance at its very best. ------------- Diuretics are used to look good in TV shows |
Posted By: MalikBrother
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 5:01am
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Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan have both classic shots and somehow, it s worth to watch them both batting in Test Cricket - Younis Khan tries to experiement new shots and it works for him sometimes and Mohammad Yousuf on the other hand, nice classics shot like clob and the way he moves the bat when it comes the bouncer and much more ...... - Rather to watch Yousuf batting instead of Ricking not cause of as a Pakistani fan , Yousuf always invent new shot in test matches somehow and the way he bat is brilliant -- No doubt Ricky is brilliant, but we have already seen his batting like the way he plays - it s cool and same . Hope he invents new shot in Pakistan when Austrailia tours to Pakistan after the WC or perhap on 2008 - @ Both Ricky and Yousuf are the best -- Dont Start the Flame LOLZ |
Posted By: zuhair_abbasi
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 5:07am
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Technically i would go for Kallis. It would have been a tie had Martyn been here. Ponting is one of the most awesome of all time batters, but by no means is his technique there up at the top. Number 2 and 3 for my ikings are Dravid and Inzi respectively ------------- http://thecricketinsight.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Shane Warnabee
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 3:55pm
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how about sachin and sunil gavaskar? ------------- What goes around comes around! |
Posted By: 70_degree_spin
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 5:52pm
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Kallis easily. I admire him a lot. I bought his bat because of my respect for him. Mind you, I hate watching him  ------------- [ |
Posted By: zuhair_abbasi
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 6:38am
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Gavaskar was good. Sachin is fine but not that good to be rated in the first slab of finest batting tecnicians. I gues Kallis, Dravid, Boycott, Inzi adn Andrew Hudson would do the job. Call me mad for hudson, but i really admird his technique. was almost flawless ------------- http://thecricketinsight.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: 70_degree_spin
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 7:37pm
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You always know when a solid batsman is playing because he paces his innings better than others. Faisal Iqbal is clearly talented but often gets bogged down when first in the crease. Inzi on the other hand is tight in defence when necessary but never really looks like he's in a lot of bother. and then there's Kallis ------------- [ |
Posted By: bondy
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 9:47pm
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Michael Vaughen can look flawless when he is playing well, one of the best drivers of the ball i've ever seen.
Has a good stance and front foot technique, a pleasure to watch. ------------- Good one Graham! |
Posted By: Kerm
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 9:52pm
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Vaughan has one glaring problem which is that he plays across the line on the backfoot to balls short of a length on off stump that then bowl him, he then looks as if the ball had kept low when it hasnt he just hasn't kept his front arm high enough so the bat had started to go diagonal and he plays inside the line. Get me in as England coach, i'll sort em out =p ------------- Kerm |
Posted By: wiseguy
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 5:26am
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Just going through the thread I hardly see a mention of Mr. cricket Mike Hussey anywhere. I am not sure if I have seen any fault in his technique, and more so he is almost perfect from the very first ball. Comapratively look at all other leading batsmen, they are usually suspect earlier on, can get them early, may it be ponting, Inzi, tendolkar, dravid, yousuf, Kallis. Hussey through the years he had to wait for his chance has learnt not to take anything easy and the way he protects and prizes his wicket is phenomenal and unmatched. I certainly believe he is the batsmen with best technique at the moment in international cricket!
Thank God no one mentioned KP so far! ------------- so far so good! |
Posted By: zuhair_abbasi
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 5:39am
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well pointed kerm!!! this inded is on of his major problem area!! He gets bowled out one time too many. He is a real pleasure to watch when in full swing, but it ios hard to put him in that slab of Kallis , Dravid, gavaskar or Inzi for technique ------------- http://thecricketinsight.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Hedonism
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 5:45am
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Sorry for letting my bias show, but I'd certainly add Graeme Pollock and Daryl Cullinan to the list as well. And as strange as it sounds, I'd add Mohammed Yousuf as well. He might not be as textbook as the others mentioned here, but he has such an amazing eye and is such a great timer of the ball, he manages to make every shot look effortless. That's a great technique all in its own.
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Posted By: wiseguy
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 5:54am
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Sorry friends, yousuf has scored a lot of runs last year, but he has a few very claer faults, one he runs down a lot of balls to the third man and gets out caught behind many a time, secondly he can not control his uppish drives on the onside, usually gets caught at midwicket or long on a number of times! A quality player should have curbed out such technical errors. ------------- so far so good! |
Posted By: zuhair_abbasi
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 6:03am
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agree...yousuf is an abnormally talented and a class player but he is not technically among the most sound players. ------------- http://thecricketinsight.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Tom_da_Cat
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 6:42am
| It's Marvan Atapattu at #1. Sachin,Martyn,Dravid too are geat in their technique. |
Posted By: dips_december
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 9:39am
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Its got to be Kallis now .As Clobs said Dravid of late has got bowled too many times and so the Wall has cracked a bit .Its got to be kallis cant see anyone elso after him and Dravid . ------------- |
Posted By: scuudz
Date Posted: 15 March 2007 at 2:09am
| I'd still say Dravid. Atapattu and Kallis are right up there with him. Mark Waugh was classical too. |
Posted By: tonks007
Date Posted: 29 March 2007 at 8:41am
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Presently i would have to say Ponting and although he is struggling at the moment , i would have to say techniquely Tendulkar has the best that i have seen. Mark Waugh's elegance and timing was impeccable. I enjoyed watching Waugh more than anyone as he seemed to have that split second more than anyone and batting just looked easy. ------------- even the sun shines on a dogs ass some days |
Posted By: SKIPPY
Date Posted: 24 May 2007 at 5:26pm
| Dravid but liking the look of Alistair Cook |
Posted By: maxx
Date Posted: 01 June 2007 at 8:01am
| Marvan Attapattu, He is Clasicle. |
Posted By: samhache
Date Posted: 02 June 2007 at 6:06am
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I know im going to be hated on for saying this, but when Stephen Fleming is on fire he is one of the best to watch. He just seems so casual, and i know, its often a rarity!! ------------- Warriors!! |
Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 03 June 2007 at 1:52am
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No mate, you won't be hated! The sentence was constructed brilliantly! ------------- In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage. |
Posted By: samhache
Date Posted: 03 June 2007 at 8:22am
thanks SW, i guess im just patriotic  ------------- Warriors!! |
Posted By: bondy
Date Posted: 03 June 2007 at 8:52am
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I've always liked to judge a players batting technique once their set; once they've scored about 30 runs. At this point one's batting technique flourishes, and scoring shots are played- and from a spectators perspective that's the best to watch !
Given my view on batting technique I'd like to nominate three players. (Currently playing test cricket).
- Stephen Fleming
- Kevin Pietersen
- Ricky Ponting ------------- Good one Graham! |
Posted By: samhache
Date Posted: 03 June 2007 at 9:07am
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One more person to add to the list is Matthew Hayden. ------------- Warriors!! |
Posted By: bondy
Date Posted: 03 June 2007 at 9:52am
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The list could go on, i've left out Tendulkar, Lara and Gibbs, all brilliant players. ------------- Good one Graham! |
Posted By: samhache
Date Posted: 03 June 2007 at 11:18pm
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yes there are many that could be said, and are worthy of noting. ------------- Warriors!! |
Posted By: cricketchampion
Date Posted: 14 August 2007 at 6:55pm
| VVS Laxman has got one of the best technique according to me.Yes he has got a few flaws!Then there are Tendulkar, Sir D Bradman... |
Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 14 August 2007 at 8:16pm
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VVS certainly doesn't have one of the best technique. Only if he made changes to it of late, then I wouldn't have a clue! ------------- In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage. |
Posted By: zuhair_abbasi
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 7:53am
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Kallis among the current players!!
Andrew Hudson among players i have seen
And bary Richards for what i have always heard and learnt and read ------------- http://thecricketinsight.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: daisy77
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 6:00pm
I like this list Bondy.  ------------- |
Posted By: BackFoot Master
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 2:27am
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I will say Tendulkar because he is more technically correct than other batsman. Just fantastic and nothing less. ------------- August 16th 2009, my team Youth Combine was crowned CHAMPION once more |
Posted By: zuhair_abbasi
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 7:10am
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Kallis is even stronger than Sachinwhen it comes to technique ------------- http://thecricketinsight.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: cricketchampion
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 7:19am
| Dravid has got a solid deffence if not the best attacking technique |
Posted By: zuhair_abbasi
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 7:43am
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Dravid gets too boring at times ------------- http://thecricketinsight.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: 143no
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 8:00am
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Dravid and Greg Chappell. ------------- Monkey see, Monkey do. |
Posted By: The Tyke
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 1:31pm
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Chanderpaul has a great technique, although highly unorthodox and horrible to look at.
It's extremely effective and he has very few flaws which I've noticed.
Vaughan technique is good but he likes the pull shot a bit too much and it costs him quite a few times.
Matthew Hayden has a good technique. He can stand and smash the ball for boundaries with no foot movement at times but when he's on song he rips bowling attacks to pieces. ------------- Minn hugur er minn sverš (My mind is my sword) |
Posted By: green plane
Date Posted: 21 August 2007 at 11:05am
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dravid has a good technique better than kallis and sachin |
Posted By: garrywarne
Date Posted: 15 November 2007 at 7:10pm
I reckon Punter. |
Posted By: canadiancricket
Date Posted: 15 November 2007 at 7:42pm
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technique - i don't think so Dravid has a better technique and Ponting struggles early on in the innings sometimes. Saving a match and you can trust Dravid more than Ponting. |
Posted By: BackFoot Master
Date Posted: 15 November 2007 at 8:14pm
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Yeah, dravid is just a wall, and A wall isn't easy to destroy. ------------- August 16th 2009, my team Youth Combine was crowned CHAMPION once more |
Posted By: canadiancricket
Date Posted: 15 November 2007 at 8:24pm
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Yes bullets don't do much harm, bombs do.
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Posted By: BackFoot Master
Date Posted: 15 November 2007 at 8:42pm
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well, it's looks like the bowler found that out late. ------------- August 16th 2009, my team Youth Combine was crowned CHAMPION once more |
Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 16 November 2007 at 2:31am
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I really have given it thought and it has to be Jacque Kallis but the likes of Dravid and Tendulkar aren't far behind! ------------- In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage. |
Posted By: garrywarne
Date Posted: 16 November 2007 at 6:10am
Oh, yeah Punter nearly lost it for us the 2nd ashes test the mostt important trophy in the world. |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 16 November 2007 at 6:41am
Give it a rest lad , it's getting tiresome. Ponting isn't perfect , try and live with it. ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: The Tyke
Date Posted: 16 November 2007 at 1:49pm
Every real, unbiased cricket fan knows that Ponting is weaker than most just outside the off stump when he comes in.
It's just that every bowler seems to focus on the fact he walks accross his stumps early and tries to get him out LBW.
And how is the ashes deemed the most important trophy in the world to say a Pakistani or a South African when they don't play in it?
They'd see other series and tournaments as more important. It's the most important trophy to the English and Aussies.
And as Sledger said, give it a rest. We're sick of hearing about your obsession with Aussie players. Learn about more players from other countries instead of being so biased towards your own.
This is getting to be almost as bad as Sammy's Kallis obsession. ------------- Minn hugur er minn sverš (My mind is my sword) |
Posted By: body
Date Posted: 16 November 2007 at 4:45pm
| I believe that a lot of people will see with me because to me LARA and TENDULKAR along with KALIS has the best batting techniques BODY |
Posted By: BackFoot Master
Date Posted: 17 November 2007 at 12:41pm
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He got to remember he is 11 years old. ------------- August 16th 2009, my team Youth Combine was crowned CHAMPION once more |
Posted By: BackFoot Master
Date Posted: 17 November 2007 at 1:32pm
Lad, this is a fantastic post knowing it's your first, just brillant.
It taked me round 50 posts before i could of made a great post. ------------- August 16th 2009, my team Youth Combine was crowned CHAMPION once more |
Posted By: body
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 12:33pm
| when you talk of batting technique it is impossible to not make notice of the double record holder BRIAN LARA .It is impossible for a man of such class to not have the best batting technique,along with the little master with the most centuries in both forms of the game S TENDULKAR.And for J KALIS if you look at his record and the manner in which he scores his centuries you would know that he has some good batting technique. BODY |
Posted By: bondy
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 8:19pm
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it feels like you're shouting every time you mention a player's name- I'm not digging it one bit. ------------- Good one Graham! |
Posted By: canadiancricket
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 8:51pm
You don't have write your username at the end of every post.  |
Posted By: body
Date Posted: 20 November 2007 at 1:09pm
| Thanks for the tip mate |
Posted By: kirankri
Date Posted: 21 November 2007 at 12:59pm
| Viv Richards - who could drive, cut, pull, hook better than anyone else.. |
Posted By: TKORL
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 8:57am
Kallis, Dravid, Boycott, Inzi and Hudson technically better than Tendulkar?????? Good Lord. "fine but not that good to be rated in the first slab of finest batting technicians"???? |
Posted By: TKORL
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 9:01am
Man, I don't think it was ever Dravid, defensively I think you are correct, but his attacking game is IMO not as good say Ponting, Tendulkar, Lara etc. |
Posted By: TKORL
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 5:25am
Have you absolutely lost it????? I don't think you realize how good Tendulkar really is... |
Posted By: NZ_Fast
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 9:19am
| And i don't think you realise his deficincys in technique. |
Posted By: 143no
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 10:16am
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Yes his technique is his own, he plays across the line a lot but is very affective at it. Technically he is not as correct as Kallis or Dravid. ------------- Monkey see, Monkey do. |
Posted By: NZ_Fast
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 11:02am
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Well i cant argue against that, tendulkers technique certainly works for him. |
Posted By: hanif
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 12:20pm
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well he must be doing some thing right as he will be the highest test run scorer by the time his career is over and he has scored the most century's so he can not be that easy to get out surely. looking good at the crease is not everything and just having a solid defence does not win you games, if you not looking to play shots and score runs all the time then it will be hard to get out where as tendulkar looks to score of every ball always trying to work the ball into gaps etc. tendulkar is amazing. ------------- love cricket hate racism |
Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 12:57pm
the question is not about how much he attacks, it's about the technique used in playing those shots |
Posted By: The Tyke
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 2:08pm
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The technique of every batsman in the world is flawed in one way or another. But there are some players where this flaw is much harder to exploit because they learn to cover them up well.
Ponting's flaw is that very early in his innings anything on or about his off stump he's very weak against. That's why I think that Dale Steyn will take his wicket more than once when they meet.
Saying that though he compensates for this weakness by leaving anything just outside the off stump and making the bowler bowl straighter, where he tends to cream the ball.
Flaw and cover up.
Dravid's flaw is his lack of footwork, which tends to make him a target for LBW's but he's become good at taking the ball off of his pads which covers up his lack of footwork.
Again, Flaw and cover up.
You can do this for every batsman in the world if you sit and watch them enough.
Some are very noticable e.g:
Graeme Smith's flaw is anything that swings back into his pads, especially late, as he's never managed to learn to play with a sufficiently straight bat to anything in that region. That's why he edges so many onto his stumps. He's yet to find a decent cover up for it.
I think the player with the best batting technique in the world at the moment is a player with probably the most unorthodox stance and technique, Chanderpaul. In all the times I've watched him I've never seen him get out to the same style of ball twice. He learns with every wicket on what he should have done to avoid it and applies it pretty well.
The stance may be unorthodox and goofy but his technique is extremely good. ------------- Minn hugur er minn sverš (My mind is my sword) |
Posted By: hanif
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 2:25pm
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i agree chanderpaul is a top player and is difficult to set a plan to and scores runs quiet freely. the main aim of batting is to score runs so the mondern day players with the best technique which enables them to do this would be lara tendulkar and ponting, and arguable ponting will become the greatest of them all. no point plodding al game, difficult to get some one out if there not looking to play shots unlike ponting lara and tendulkar who are always looking to scoreruns working the ball well. ------------- love cricket hate racism |
Posted By: The Tyke
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 2:42pm
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You don't ever see the best of a batsman's technique when he's playing to score lots. You see some very raw shots mixed in which leads to them getting out.
The time that you see the best techniques is when the batsmen are trying to set a score and run down some time to save their side in a test. You see the solid defensive work and some marvellous shots, instead of the wild slash over point. ------------- Minn hugur er minn sverš (My mind is my sword) |
Posted By: TKORL
Date Posted: 24 February 2008 at 1:35am
Tendulkar's deficiency is his technique????? Laughable. The greatest batsman of the modern age, and his weakness is his technique.... |
Posted By: TKORL
Date Posted: 24 February 2008 at 1:38am
If his "technique" was deficient, he would not have scored half the runs he has. His role for much of his career has been to be a strokeplayer, and while everyone makes mistakes, to say that Tendulkar is technically not of the absolutely highest caliber is a poor joke. |
Posted By: TKORL
Date Posted: 24 February 2008 at 1:41am
Well put. It's easy for us to say that his technique is weak, but you have to remember that most international batsmen would love to have half the runs Tendulkar does. And another point, Tendulkar has scored more centuries than Dravid and Chanderpaul put together. |
Posted By: TKORL
Date Posted: 24 February 2008 at 1:45am
Playing across the line is not a question of his technique, it's a question of his decision-making. It's his decision to decide whether to play across the line depending on the merits of the ball, and the fact that he is effective at it only demonstrates the point further. He's more than capable with every shot. |
Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 24 February 2008 at 1:46am
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Sachin is not technically the most correct. He does look really compact but Kallis has a real tight technique to breach! But still, his technique is very good, and that combined with his smart brain has made him the player he is. ------------- In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage. |
Posted By: hanif
Date Posted: 24 February 2008 at 2:54am
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the reason kallis plays straighter is due to his particular style, he feels more comfortable and confident in driving the ball, where as tendulkar is able to play quite wristy strokes allowing him to play across the line and work the ball into the gaps, which would require more technical ability if you are always looking to play straight and technically correct it will be easy to set a field to, making it difficult to score runs, where as tendulkar can play the ball to all parts of the ground, which is probably why he has scored so many runs, he is truely a magician and should be given the credit he deserves, if some one said to me there is one batsmen you have to watch for the rest of your life i would choose tendulkar as i would never get bored, he is always trying new shots never happy sticking to the shots he is good at, which there are many. i can't see there been another player like him. truely amazing ------------- love cricket hate racism |
Posted By: TKORL
Date Posted: 24 February 2008 at 5:01am
| Well, then again Bradman wasn't considered technically correct either. Of course, like Tendulkar he was interested in innovation. |
Posted By: hanif
Date Posted: 24 February 2008 at 12:37pm
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they should replace the word innovation in the dictionary with tendulkar. :-) or just have a picture of him playing a shot. ------------- love cricket hate racism |
Posted By: MalhotraRaj84
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 5:21pm
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I don't know about earlier players i.e before 80's coz no chance to see much videos, but from my earliest memories till date, I have not seen any player better than Gavaskar's technique. ------------- Race to No 1 again ... started! |
Posted By: milkman
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 9:09am
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Unlike Sachin, he didn't have as many gears or as much innovation to his game. VVS, Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn have the best techniques that I have seen in terms of elegance. Most batsmen who are completely orthodox and textbook aren't as good to watch . ------------- Ideal cricketer: Bowl like Warne, bat like Tendulkar, field like Jonty!! |
Posted By: zuhair_abbasi
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 9:20am
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I beg to disagree Milks - the guys you have listed are the most pleasing to the eye and have style. But the technique with these guys was not necessarily always spot on. I will go with Kallis and Hudson for technique. ------------- http://thecricketinsight.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: MalhotraRaj84
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 9:30am
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Yes while judging upon best batting technique we should concentrate on things like
- The balance of head at all times
- Defence
- Can the batsman bring a snorther of a delivery directed at throat to dead still right infront on his leg
- Footwork
- Followthrough
- Sure of his offstump
etc...
EDIT: Most important thing is we need to see how close the batsman come while playing the shot. ------------- Race to No 1 again ... started! |
Posted By: milkman
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 9:36am
I said best technique on the eye... not the best technique with regard to orthodoxy which you can imply from the latter sentence. ------------- Ideal cricketer: Bowl like Warne, bat like Tendulkar, field like Jonty!! |
Posted By: milkman
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 9:51am
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Furthermore there's a difference between having a good technique and having an orthodox technique. Chanderpaul is completely unorthodox, but very technically sound and plays both spin and pace with few limitations or weaknesses.
------------- Ideal cricketer: Bowl like Warne, bat like Tendulkar, field like Jonty!! |
Posted By: MalhotraRaj84
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 9:54am
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ya good technique we also need to see how well the player adapts to
- Different pitches
- Different bowling attack (Spin,Fast and Swing) ------------- Race to No 1 again ... started! |
Posted By: milkman
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 10:04am
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The best way to analyse it is to look out how many limitations and weaknesses a player has. Ponting is weak at the start of his innings when he lunges forward and plants his front foot, making him suspect to caught behinds and the odd LBW and edge on to the stumps. He has also played off spin fairly poorly, although he has improved a great deal against spin in recent years. Then you get someone like Bradman who had pretty much 0 weaknesses, except in the Bodyline series but those tactics are now illegal and he still averaged nearly 60 in that series. Yet Bradman was not exactly technically correct or orthodox according to the textbook.
------------- Ideal cricketer: Bowl like Warne, bat like Tendulkar, field like Jonty!! |
Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 1:38pm
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Kallis is very technically correct. Hardly ever a gap between his bat and pad. Dravid has a good one too but I've seen him bowl by balls cutting in and going through his gate.
Overall, it's real hard to penetrate the defense of Kallis and Chanderpaul. For such a flamboyant player, Sehwag has a tight one too. ------------- In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage. |
Posted By: punterrulz
Date Posted: 31 October 2009 at 5:17am
| Best techniques not necessarily the best batsmen as we all know. Kallis has a very good and upright technique. Tendulkar also displays a well rounded and correct technique. If we go back to retired players two that stand out are Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn. Very correct and stylish both of them. You d never be able to say Kallis, Waugh or martyn were particularly great batsmen but all very stylish and good to watch. Lara who was a great batsmen had an unusual technique, not techincally correct but very unique and worked for him. |
Posted By: punterrulz
Date Posted: 17 November 2009 at 4:08am
| Brad haddin too funnily enough looks very classy with the bat. |