Best players against lateral moving ball?

[Burner]

I personally prefer Kohli and Kane. Kohli for the arrogant authority and Kane for his sereneness.

I never understood elegance. Don't find Amla or Rohit as particularly attractive batsmen.

 

[Zinzan]

I personally prefer Kohli and Kane. Kohli for the arrogant authority and Kane for his sereneness.

I never understood elegance. Don't find Amla or Rohit as particularly attractive batsmen.

You need to watch Damien Martyn, David Gower, Martin Crowe & Mark Waugh & you'll understand elegance.

 

[DriveClub]

Amla isn't elegant, amla is ***y! Especially his square drives

 

[Gob]

You need to watch Damien Martyn, David Gower, Martin Crowe & Mark Waugh & you'll understand elegance.

I literally jacked off once while watching him batting

Had a porn tab open which may or may not have contributed

 

[weldone]

You need to watch Damien Martyn, David Gower, Martin Crowe & Mark Waugh & you'll understand elegance.

Laxman, Rahane

 

[vic_orthdox]

I really don't think there's many people who were always "great" against the moving ball - it's probably the biggest side effect of "form".

You're best balanced, you are playing the ball where you want to, and you're able to punish the ball that's available, even if it is moving.

 

[Migara]

Since 90s

Seam bowling - Rahul Dravid
Swing Bowling - Sachin Tendulkar
Reverse swing - Aravinda de Silva

 

[listento_me]

This is a tough one. I'm going to say Dravid but rather tentatively simply because no one is 100% against swing, especially at pace. Amla out of the generation that followed.

Oh and for a glorious, record breaking summer, Mohammad Yousuf.

 

[Gob]

My ex

 

[honestbharani]

and your current is a FTB?

 

[andruid]

No English openers?

 

[Howe_zat]

No English openers?

Boycott probably the last great English opener in this regard but few of us are old enough to make the comparison. Cook and Gooch have obviously scored a shedload of runs since but playing the moving ball was not a strength for either.

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The best England player I've seen live against seam and swing is probably Jonathan Trott during his brief heyday in 2009-11. When Asif and Amir gave us all sorts of problems with new and old ball swing in the 2010 summer Trott was the only player who consistently got the better of them.

Ian Bell's 2013 also comes to mind due to how well and late he played Ryan Harris, particularly off the back foot. His late cuts were Dravid-like in that series. Unfortunately Bell wasn't a great judge of off stump line through a lot of his career.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Seam bowling - Rahul Dravid

Yeah too bad he couldn't hit the straight ones on the stumps

 

[vic_orthdox]

Since 90s

Seam bowling - Rahul Dravid
Swing Bowling - Sachin Tendulkar
Reverse swing - Aravinda de Silva

Probably would have had Dravid and Tendulkar the other way around, to be honest.

 

[Oduodu]

Mark Taylor had this uncanny ability to seem to know what way the ball was going to seam. I watched him against Pollock and Donald in Australia. His strike rate wanst spectacular but without doubt the best leaver of the ball I ever saw. I heard rumours that there was batsmen that was able to read the ball form the wicket. Apparently Barry Richards was one of them. As to the truth of this I don't know.

 

[vcs]

Tendulkar probably developed better patience and judgement in leaving the ball later in his career as he showed against Steyn. If we could combine that with Tendulkar the outrageous stroke-maker of the late-90s, we would have had one hell of a player.

But TBH bowlers who moved the ball both ways always gave him more trouble (McGrath, Asif, Anderson). I reckon if Philander had debuted a series earlier, he might not have got to the 50-ton mark.

 

[smash84]

Since 90s

Seam bowling - Rahul Dravid
Swing Bowling - Sachin Tendulkar
Reverse swing - Aravinda de Silva

Martin Crowe

 

[Oduodu]

Yes I heard Crowe could change his shot very late in the shot itself.

Was a very talented player.

 

[doesitmatter]

Swing in Eng / NZ is slightly different from SA . In Eng / NZ it is typically knee high and in SA the ball bounces a lot more and swings.. In both conditions 2 players were exceptional (from the 90s) .. Steve Waugh and Tendulkar.. If it is just Eng / NZ..Dravid is up there but not that good when the ball bounces and swings as in SA and except for his 148 he has done nothing of note in SA..

Reverse Swing :

Aravinda , Martin Crowe and Tendulkar (i know Tendulkar did not play Wasim and Waqar at his peak or at their peak in Tests other than when he was 16 and in 1999 compared to Aravinda and Crowe but i have never seen him being troubled by reverse swing though..)..

Seam bowling : The greatest exponent of this art in the 90s were Walsh / Ambrose and McGrath..Any one has played these guys good consistently?..I don't know..Lara / Tendulkar and Steve and Mark Waugh have had their moments..