Who Has the best Batting technique

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.

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.

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.

Yes while judging upon best batting technique we should concentrate on things like

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 22 October 2009 at 9:32am

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 .

they should replace the word innovation in the dictionary with tendulkar. :-) or just have a picture of him playing a shot.

Edited by hanif - 24 February 2008 at 12:38pm

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

Originally posted by 143no 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.

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.

Edited by TKORL - 24 February 2008 at 1:45am

Originally posted by Clobber the question is not about how much he attacks, it's about the technique used in playing those shots

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.

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.

Edited by The Tyke - 10 February 2008 at 2:10pm

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.

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.

Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi 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

Have you absolutely lost it????? I don't think you realize how good Tendulkar really is...

Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi 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

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"????