Elegant batsmen

[DravidFan]

Is there a thread on batsmen who are easiest on the eyes? This is a highly subjective thing, but my faves are nearly all from the subcontinent. In descending order (ones I have watched):

Azharuddin
Laxman
Zaheer Abbas
Jayawardana
Sangakkara
G R Vishwanath
Lara
Gower


Who are yours?

 

[trundler]

Martin ****ing Crowe. You may close this thread now.

 

[trundler]

Mark Waugh, Damien Martyn, Kane Williamson after Crowe.

 

[cnerd123]

Ian Bell
Aarvinda de Silva
Shakib Al Hasan (fight me, ****s)

 

[fredfertang]

Barry Richards, depending on what sort of mood he was in - like Martin Crowe he sometimes battered the bowling, but generally he just stroked it around and made it look like the easiest thing in the world to do

 

[trundler]

Root is pretty good to watch too. Babar Azam also.

 

[sledger]

Mark Waugh.

By far the more elegant of the two Waughs.

Edit: Ah, beaten to it by Trundler. What a good lad he is.

 

[vcs]

Yuvraj and Ben Stokes have a certain freedom to their bat-swing and a punchy quality to their shots down the ground that makes them very good to watch.

 

[vcs]

Yeah, Babar Azam is also good. His short arm jab/pull is a wonderful stroke.

 

[Malcolm]

Mark Waugh, Martyn, Williamson, Jayawardene, Ajinkya Rahane, VVS. Sanju Samson is also very good to watch.

 

[aussie tragic]

Greg Chappell, Martin Crowe, Lawrence Rowe, David Gower, Brian Lara, Mark Waugh...funny how the most elegant players are all prior to T20i becoming a thing

 

[trundler]

Babar Azam is the #1 T20 batsman though

 

[andmark]

Viv's technique was sublime. Moeen Ali is also brilliant when on form.

 

[DravidFan]

Viv's technique was sublime.

Agree; Viv had an arrogant elegance.

 

[SachinFan]

Ganguly. His cover drives and cuts were a joy to watch.

 

[trundler]

Speaking of elegant left handers, Saeed Anwar.

 

[SachinFan]

Wonder why nobody mentions Tendulkar while talking about elegance? Who hits more poetic straight drives or cover drives? I can show n number of instances where the commentator was just orgasming at the shot Tendulkar had just hit.

 

[Burgey]

Vengsarkar was always awesome to watch imo. Azharuddin too. Tendulkar off the back foot punching straight back down the ground was sublime as well.

How many of these elegant blokes cop a razzing when they got out because they made it look easy, so everyone thinks they must have thrown it away Mark Waugh and Gower copped that a lot, Martyn too. I think Lawrence Rowe did too.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Stephen Fleming.

Might've underachieved for his talent (and made Root's conversion rate look good) but no one has ever played made more elegant 60s.

Close the thread.

 

[Starfighter]

Arthur Morris.

Wonder why nobody mentions Tendulkar while talking about elegance? Who hits more poetic straight drives or cover drives? I can show n number of instances where the commentator was just orgasming at the shot Tendulkar had just hit.

A bit bottom handed to look as elegant as some here imo.