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one shot, one player

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nope, not something out of the red book for when they've contrived to lose from ridiculously strong positions.

it's about the main batting strokes, and the men who play them best:

forward defense
backfoot defense
cut
latecut
squarecut
uppercut
squaredrive
coverdrive (front foot)
coverdrive (back foot)
u get the jist......

feel free to choose whichever shots u prefer, but remember that u can only pick one name per shot. and u need to have seen the batsman.
 
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to get things rolling....

straight drive - gavaskar
hook - richards
on drive - chappell
backfoot coverdrive - tendulkar
cover drive - martyn
square drive to the spinners - lara
uppercut - tendulkar
lofted flick - richards
all shots with little foot movement - sobers (mostly seen on tape, not live)

more to follow...
 
Spark

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Late cut would have surely have to be Martyn.
Cover drive is stupidly hard. Do I go for technical perfection, or aesthetic quality?
 
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that is upto u, spark.

or u could break it up into backfoot, frontfoot, off a spinner, off a fastbowler, even left handed, right handed.
 
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Straight drive and little flick off the pads (to fast bowlers) - Tendulkar
Pull - Ponting
Ondrive (and general flicks to the legside) against spinners - VVS Laxman
Backfoot defense - Dravid
Frontfoot defense - Kallis
Coverdrive - Kallis/Sangakkara
Square cut - Steve Waugh
Lofted shots down the ground to spinners - Brian Lara
 
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Spark

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Well, off the fast bowlers is what I meant.

Technical perfection is Tendulkar without a doubt. Balance, timing and the rest. Aesthetic quality - Clarke. 09 Ashes.
Tendulkar also claims the on-drive and leg-glance too, through timing.

EDIT: This obviously is only who I've seen, which doesn't include for obvious reasons the greats of the early 90s and 80s.
 
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off the top of my head, the great cover drivers (front foot) i have seen are:

richards
kallis
gavaskar
martyn
laxman
tendulkar
vaughan
abbas
hussey
jayawardene
sangakkara
 
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vcs said:
Straight drive and little flick off the pads (to fast bowlers) - Tendulkar
Pull - Ponting
Ondrive (and general flicks to the legside) against spinners - VVS Laxman
Backfoot defense - Dravid
Frontfoot defense - Kallis
Coverdrive - Kallis/Sangakkara
Square cut - Steve Waugh
Lofted shots down the ground to spinners - Brian Lara
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Steve Waugh's more a back foot drive IMO. /hairsplitting.

Mark Waugh's clip off the pads was a thing of beauty too.
 
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hang on said:
off the top of my head, the great cover drivers (front foot) i have seen are:

richards
kallis
gavaskar
martyn
laxman
tendulkar
vaughan
abbas
hussey
jayawardene
sangakkara
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Greg Chappell too.

Edit: good thread btw.
 
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Burgey said:
Steve Waugh's more a back foot drive IMO. /hairsplitting.

Mark Waugh's clip off the pads was a thing of beauty too.
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Good shout, forgotten about him somehow.

Front foot square drive on the up - Ponting. In fact most drives on the up - Ponting. Between that and his pull shot, he was a true joy to watch.
 
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Laxman doesn't have a great front foot cover-drive against pace bowlers, he's a bit slow to get forward.

Vaughan is a great shout, very good batsman to watch from an aesthetic and technical point of view.
 
Spark

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vcs said:
Laxman doesn't have a great front foot cover-drive against pace bowlers, he's a bit slow to get forward.

Vaughan is a great shout, very good batsman to watch from an aesthetic and technical point of view.
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Stunning player to watch in the 02/03 Ashes. Thought he would be destined for much bigger and better things (and he was, just not in the way I thought :dry:)
 
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Burgey : Good point about the Waugh cut/drive. He used to generate a lot of power with that little shuffle to the offstump really allowing him to lean into it.

Nasser Hussain also used to play a mean square cut, IIRC.
 
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I've only watched David Gower in youtube clips but his backfoot strokes (and they are strokes in the true sense of the word) are just so effortless to watch.
 
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his pulling in that series was also a treat to watch.

and yup, ponting was the best puller around at present, but there were some excellent ones in the 70s and 80s. crowe was rather good at the pull in the early 90s.
 
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Spark said:
Good shout, forgotten about him somehow.

Front foot square drive on the up - Ponting. In fact most drives on the up - Ponting. Between that and his pull shot, he was a true joy to watch.
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His stance and backlift kind of set him up to make a choice between those two shots after he picks up the length. Works especially well on Australian tracks with true bounce and not much lateral movement.
 
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