Stylish batsmen you liked

VVS Laxman is in a class of his own as far as I'm concerned.   I'd pay to watch him score at a strike rate of 30!

Hooper was a serial underachiever to be quite frank and he should have done better than he did. Bit like Hick or Blewett I suppose.

I agree. Some cricketers are not natural athletes or particularly talented , but they work really hard and are very tough. 

Yeah, Hooper could tear apart attacks, be it pace or spin.  A massive disappointment for the talent he was.  He did a bit of justice to it in his last few years but a bit too late.

I fine Left Handers to be a lot more stylish than right handers, although VVS Laxman is one of the most stylish I've seen.  

Edited by sam_ahmed - 18 November 2009 at 4:04am

For some reason, I`ve never found Laxman or Ganguly to be stylish.

I think De Villiers is really stylish too. Very compact and good techique. Definitely Mohammed Yousuf and Lara.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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