10 minutes of Beethoven is better than a lifetime of Rap and R&B drivel (OK pompous and unrepresentative example ... but what the hey ... the point is made )Mr Mxyzptlk said:They say...
"Hooper bats like a virtuoso... and then he gets out."
I agree on both counts - Mark Waugh was wonderful to watch, but in naming this poll 'of all time' and then just about the only player from pre-1980 to be included is Geoff Boycott strikes me as a total wind-up.Tim said:Martin Crowe was stylish also.
But I must say Mark Waugh played some teriffic cover drives.
Text book is not necessarily beautiful though. But he must have been a joy to beholdTim said:What about Bradman, he was supposedly textbook material..but I guess unless you've gone through the archives nobody can really tell.
I think this list should have read: Most Stylish batsmen over the last 10 years. Presumably not many on this forum would have seen the likes of Gower, Gavaskar etc bat too often.
YEs Azza was great , cant beleive I forgot him & Hooper , but he's a cheating bastard so it kind of erases all the positive memories of him , as for Boycott on the rare occasions he actually played a shot he was quite elegantTim said:Azza, yes he was another very stylish batsman, but he pressed the self destruct button.
Ahem....iamdavid said:YEs Azza was great , cant beleive I forgot him & Hooper , but he's a cheating bastard so it kind of erases all the positive memories of him , as for Boycott on the rare occasions he actually played a shot he was quite elegant
Even ChanderpaulroyGilchrist said:Heck to me all left handers look stylish
Fair comment, but if my objection to the basic perception that all cricketers before 1980 were not stylish owing to their exclusion from the list is a 'rant' as opposed to a 'justifiable comment', then I will continue labouring the point that an 18-20 year-old should recognise the difference between 'all-time' and 'whom I have seen'.PY said:As much as I understand your rant Eddie, people can only go on what they have said and as the average age of the people who have replied so far is about 18-20, I wouldn't expect people to say anything other than a modern era player.
True (if it didn't have 'other' I would have done so too) - doesn't change a thing (because I voted for Graeme Pollock) IMO. No thought or no knowledge gone into it if it was an all-time list (and remember Gower was playing test cricket until 1992 first-class cricket as recently as 1993.gibbsnsmith said:David Gower in that list...