Best Test Opener At The Present Time

England if you go back have had trescothick and now strauss and cook, sth africa had kirsten and now smith, pakistan had armir sohail, saeed anwar and now salman butt, india have gambhir, aus just recently had hughs and katich, bedfore that hayden n hussey, hayden, jacques, hayden elliot, taylor haydon n west indies had at one time 5 lefties in their top 6, i think carl hooper was the only right hander. You could almost make a team of the greatest left handers of all time to beat the right handers! Three of the greatest batsmen ever are lefties, lara, sobers n pollock

Yeah what is it about nz and pak? Have nz produced any decent batsmen? I guess you could say martin crowe but hes not exactly that great. So many openers seem to be left handers too which is odd considering so few people are actually left handed. Milks top 3 are all lefties. Add smith, cook, gayle and the 2 million left handed openers in aus s recent history and theres more lefties then right. amazing! 

Katman? hhhmmm consistent.  Gambhir has to be up there. Strauss? hes there or there abouts. Smith? well smith produces the goods but not quite often enough although he usually leaves his best work for england. Id go for mt sehwag simply due to his monster scores. Such a pity he didn't get his third triple.

He's been very consistent Katich, not in the same breadth as Strauss and Gambhir, but right up there and at the moment ahead of the likes of Sehwag and Smith.

Katich hasn't been too bad either, very consistent.

Strauss' form has been amazing, he looks so easy at the crease and not bothered at all by the bowling.  His footworks has been pretty good!

Andrew Strauss says hi

If he gets going. Hasn't gotten going too much recently.

Virendra Sehwag. He is most destructive player if he get goings. Just look at his stats whenever he get pass 50 runs in test, he went onto score 150 plus runs.

Haha, funny you have to mention the word 'nancy'.  There's a lad by the nickname of Nancy back here in one of the teams I play with and he's probably the best character of the lot.  He brings a real good laugh to the team - not a bad person to have around!

I'm not sure!

True Zuhair, Sledger has a lot to be grateful for of this English team.  When I was growing up, they got mauled left right and centre.  Not so nowadays, well, at least not in the longer format.

Originally posted by milkman Mitch broke Smith's hand twice. Smith is a left hander...

  Indeed he did.  I just hope he doesn't break my heart!

Mitch broke Smith's hand twice. Smith is a left hander...

Be happy that none is!!! Right handed Cook would have been Johnson's bunny