Elegant batsmen

[Xuhaib]

Younis Khan is the weirdest he could oscillate from pretty to village ugly on ball to ball basis

 

[Kirkut]

Viv is one of my favs but he was neither a technician or elegant IMO

Guy was just brutal & brilliant

Not at all, he wasn't someone who muscled the ball but timed every shot with such authority. His twin fifties at Adelaide in 1981 is an example of that.

 

[Kirkut]

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 right word would be compact instead of elegant. His 177 at Trent Bridge is class overdose.

 

[nightprowler10]

Younis Khan is the weirdest he could oscillate from pretty to village ugly on ball to ball basis

Yup, like I said earlier in this thread, could be pretty ugly when not set but loved his cover drives and sweeps when he was on song.

 

[nightprowler10]

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[honestbharani]

Younis just felt like brutal efficiency personified to me. Not that he could not play a pretty shot but more of ten than not, he seemed a consummate pro who wanted results over elegance.

 

[Chrish]

Loved watching Ganguly.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

We had Carl Lllweleyn Hooper.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

From CI:

Ayaz Khan: "Did someone say there isn't anyone more elegant to watch than Moeen? Vince be like hold my cup"

lol

 

[TheJediBrah]

Khawaja

Loved watching Ganguly.

Opposite for me. Very ungainly and hard to watch, especially anything leg-side. Could be somewhat "elegant" on some off-side strokes though

 

[srbhkshk]

Rohit is quite decent to watch imo, quite a bit better than Kohli (not that Kohli is particularly elegant.)

 

[HookShot]

Khawaja

Opposite for me. Very ungainly and hard to watch, especially anything leg-side. Could be somewhat "elegant" on some off-side strokes though

I agree. Even in T20 Khawaja rarely looked in a hurry, but would keep caressing the ball to boundary with minimal aggression.

 

[karan_fromthestands]

Suryakumar Yadav is another one. Looks pretty fluent even though he plays a lot of unorthodox shots. There's a slight awkwardness in those reverse sweeps, scoops, etc. when the batsmen play it, Yadav plays them with a certain level of ease and assurity.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Haven't read the whole thread and won't be doing so, but if Zaheer Abbas hasn't been mentioned (or indeed if he has) - Zaheer Abbas.

 

[Chrish]

Khawaja

Opposite for me. Very ungainly and hard to watch, especially anything leg-side. Could be somewhat "elegant" on some off-side strokes though

Interesting.. He barely played any stroke against pace bowlers on-side; he was kinda hopeless against short-ball. But against spinners the way he used to come down the pitch and smash them for six on leg side!!! It was divine.

Loved his off-side play against pace bowlers: those drives and square cuts.

 

[Kirkut]

Ignore the bowling attack, this has to be among the top 3 most "good to watch" Tendulkar knocks:

Unfortunately a longer 30 minute video of the same knock got deleted which had all the fours hit by Tendulkar.

 

[karan_fromthestands]

Ignore the bowling attack, this has to be among the top 3 most "good to watch" Tendulkar knocks:

Of course we will, it's Englund.