Best damn hooker of the cricket ball

[Dan]

I think we don't see many good hookers of the ball these days, simply because they have no need to play a 'proper' hook shot.

Helmets have surely decreased the need to get inside the line of the ball while hooking; why play a riskier shot when you can stand tall and smack it, or ramp it over the 'keeper/slips?

The other option is the TPC overhead tennis smash. Those are always fun.

 

[hendrix]

McCullum is a good, if happy, hooker

 

[vcs]

Also the Caddick one from 2003.

 

[Kirkut]

Remember watching VVS Laxman hooking Steyn for a flat six in the Durban test 2010.

 

[Grumpy]

Remember watching VVS Laxman hooking Steyn for a flat six in the Durban test 2010.

Really? I watched majority of that match but don't remember that.

 

[Spark]

I think we don't see many good hookers of the ball these days, simply because they have no need to play a 'proper' hook shot.

Helmets have surely decreased the need to get inside the line of the ball while hooking; why play a riskier shot when you can stand tall and smack it, or ramp it over the 'keeper/slips?

The other option is the TPC overhead tennis smash. Those are always fun.

Mathews is pretty decent IMO.