Who Would you have Bat for your Life

[Mister Wright]

Dravid. I would have chose Gillespie if he was on the list.

 

[Bookie]

If Klusener was an option, hed be it. But on that list, Dravid.

 

[Burpey]

I agree ... Jason Gillespie would be my pick. Go the walking forwrad defence!!!

 

[dudeurfriend]

Dravid or kallis would be my choice....
former players would be Tilekaratne or Gavaskar....

 

[vic_orthdox]

Can't go past Chopper Read. Chop Chop.

he'd certainly know how to "hold up" proceedings and "take the life" out of the game. but it wouldn't necessarily be boring. i reckon he'd bring home the cash. "cash, not here, no cash here jonno" (irreverant quote from the movie)

 

[Neil Pickup]

Now that Kirsten's retired, Dravid or Kallis.

 

[Buddhmaster]

I'm going for Kallis, because he would be entertaining while keeping me alive

 

[James90]

I'm sure everyone would like Bradman at his prime but I'll have to settle for Dravid

 

[Richard]

If my life depended on the batter not getting out I'd go for Dravid without question.

If I were selecting an Englishman tho....probably Strauss just now, although he showed a few signs in the ODIs that his purple patch myabe coming to its end.

Because ODIs have so much to do with Tests, don't they?

 

[Richard]

Let's pretend we're not trying to commit suicide here and say Glenn McGrath...

Anyway.. With Steve Waugh now off the scene (and I think most would rate him as the bloke you'd have bat for your life) who now takes that mantle off him... This is the sorta bloke that when the chips are really down simply will be the hardest and most dogged to get out and not throw their wicket away....

Let the posting begin...

For me it would have to now be Justin Langer...
In pressure situations Justin's great. He's not pretty to watch but neither was Waugh and has an uncanny will to survive... I'll never forget it when he got Australia over the line with Gilly against the Pakies...

I'd take Rahul "The Wall" every time.
Stephen Waugh with more style - to coin a Rahul Bhattayacha phrase.
Jacques Kallis wouldn't be an enormous distance behind, though.

 

[steds]

I couldn't bear it if a non-Lancastrian was batting for my life, so I'd choose Mark Chilton.

 

[Neil Pickup]

I couldn't bear it if a non-Lancastrian was batting for my life, so I'd choose Mark Chilton.

The Samaritans

 

[Swervy]

The Samaritans

hahahaha

 

[SpeedKing]

Kallis. Without a trace of doubt.

Yep, Mr. JH Kallis for me too, he is so selfish with his wicket that i would put my heart infront of his stumps and be about 95% sure that he wont get blowned up.

An Up and coming player who also loves his wicket is Ian Bell and i have not seen much of this guy but also, Hamish Marshal [the middle order rock that NZ badly need].

How come Thorpie is not on this list, he is definitely safer than the likes of Smith.

from the alltime list, i would definitely have Gavaskar or if an Englishman then the great perfectionist, Geoff Boycott

 

[Crazy Sam]

andrew symonds.

 

[tooextracool]

rahul dravid, followed by daylight, followed by kallis.
im a little surprised that kallis is all of a sudden on par with dravid, when not long ago people were talking about how his record was incredibly boosted by performances against the lesser teams. yea yea i think hes a great player and what not, but its just a little shocking that someone who averages 32 against australia, 35 against pakistan and 33 against SL is now batting for peoples lives.

 

[Tom Halsey]

I'd agree with everything TEC said. Kallis, while very impressive against England, hasn't done too well against the Aussies and that has to be the ultiimate test for a batsman.

 

[Tom Halsey]

And for an all time list, Viv Richards. Ofcourse I could have put Bradman, but there's little to no point in that... and I've seen way more of Richards.

 

[tooextracool]

viv richards is one player i would never put to bat for my life. as fine a player as he was, he had the tendency to throw his wicket away on a number of occasions.

 

[Richard]

The less important it was, the less Richards could usually be bothered.
Far more ability than Ricky Ponting, but if he would ever have been bothered to play the innings Ponting played on a sopping wet night in Durham in September in England I'd eat my computer.