India's 4th Best Opener?

[Thala_0710]

After Gavaskar, Merchant and Sehwag, who is India's 4th best opener of all time (exclude Yashasvi Jaiswal for now)?
As openers:
Sidhu - 69 inns 2911 runs @42.80, 8 100s & 15 50s
Gambhir - 101 inns 4119 runs @42.90, 9 100s & 21 50s
Vijay - 100 inns 3880 runs @39.19, 12 100s & 15 50s
Rohit - 66 inns 2697 runs @42.80, 9 100s & 8 50s

 

[Thala_0710]

You've voted for other, who's the answer in your opinion? @vidiq

 

[Johan]

Yashasvi

 

[vidiq]

Kl Rahul

 

[Thala_0710]

Yashasvi

Excluding him (as mentioned above)

 

[vidiq]

Rohit didn't played majority of Sena tours so his average is misleading.

 

[Johan]

blud said KL Rahul

 

[vidiq]

blud said KL Rahul

Majority of people outside CW (especially on twitter) rates kl Rahul better than rohit, Gambhir, Murali etc.

 

[Thala_0710]

Rohit didn't played majority of Sena tours so his average is misleading.View attachment 47059

Yeah but it's not like KL has torn it up in SENA either. He avgs 32.6 in SENA, which is higher than Vijay & Sidhu but still poor, and was then much worse than Vijay & Sidhu everywhere else.

 

[Thala_0710]

Majority of people outside CW (especially on twitter) rates kl Rahul better than rohit, Gambhir, Murali etc.

No they don't

 

[Johan]

Majority of people outside CW (especially on twitter) rates kl Rahul better than rohit, Gambhir, Murali etc.

how do you even get KL over Gautam

 

[vidiq]

how do you even get KL over Gautam

Because of These types of quality innings

 

[Thala_0710]

Match factors:
Rohit - 1.44
Sidhu - 1.26
Vijay - 1.22
Gambhir - 1.20

Rohit is the outlier but the others weren't playing with Bumrah, and then Ash-Jaddu at home.
Gambhir gets hard done by the most as he played majorly in good batting and weak bowling sides.
Vijay and Sidhu played with poor bowling sides as well, although their batting lineups weren't as strong as with Gambhir.

 

[Thala_0710]

Because of These types of quality innings

What about Gambhir in Napier? Or Rohit at Chennai vs England?

 

[vidiq]

What about Gambhir in Napier?

What about Gambhir in Napier? Or Rohit at Chennai vs England?

Kl Rahul scored multiple hundreds like this

 

[vidiq]

What about Gambhir in Napier? Or Rohit at Chennai vs England?

Among the current era batsman
Technique wise Kl Rahul is the best indian batsman (better than Virat Kohli, rohit sharma )
No real weakness.

 

[Thala_0710]

Among the current era batsman
Technique wise Kl Rahul is the best indian batsman (better than Virat Kohli, rohit sharma )
No real weakness.

Yeah but he doesn't have the consistent output for him to go above the above mentioned guys. His best knocks are better than them, but not nearly the same consistent output. Technique is no good if you can't make runs using that.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Mankad was a better opener than those mentioned

 

[Johan]

Mankad was a better opener than those mentioned

do you just start rating anyone who makes runs against New Zealand highly?

 

[Thala_0710]

do you just start rating anyone who makes runs against New Zealand highly?

I do the opposite.
People who are successful everywhere else and fail against NZ are generally ATGs