Best knock of the world cup final?

[ankitj]

So let's do a poll. Who played the best knock in the final - Mahela, Gambhir or Dhoni?

 

[Spark]

Mahela.

The difference between the teams is that he had almost no support.

 

[Spikey]

anyone who votes for Gambhir or Dhoni should be banned

 

[Teja.]

As isolated events, Mahela obv.

Gambhir had the opportunity to better it if he finished the Innings but he had to play that **** **** shot.

 

[Jono]

Yeah Mahela. WAFG.

Very happy to see Mahela winning this poll in a losing cause rather than Sachin.

 

[Cruxdude]

While Mahela's innings was the best in terms of quality, I will still call Gambhir's innings the best Chasing 274 with the team 31/2, awesome.

 

[ankitj]

anyone who votes for Gambhir or Dhoni should be banned

A certain bunch of posters are so ****ing annoying.

 

[vic_orthdox]

A toss-up between Mahela and Dhoni, probably Mahela just. I have more time for the guy who takes the ownership of the whole innings and takes the team all the way through the innings.

 

[M0rphin3]

Mahela, easily. Followed by Gambhir.

 

[Dissector]

Mahela's was the best in pure batting terms of course, a sublime confection of timing and placement particularly in the powerplay. If this was a regular game I would have voted for him. But this was the world cup final and while I am sure there was some pressure in the first innings it's nothing compared to the pressure that Gambhir would have felt when India were 31/2 chasing 275. I have seen so many teams falter in those situations, get bogged down and lose wickets and it was Gambhir who ensured that India stayed on course. In terms of batting his was the least of the three but in the context of the game I think it was the best.

 

[Redbacks]

Went for Gambhir, he had situational pressure and was able to negate the spin attack of Sri Lanka to the point where the game could no longer be lost, did this with minimal risk until the dodgy shot to get out, and the bit of luck with the dropped catch.

 

[ankitj]

See a lot of you voting for Mahela. Do you guys also reckon the MoM should've been given to Mahela?

For me all 3 innings were fantastic and worthy of a world cup final. By small margins, I'd go Dhoni > Mahela > Gambhir.

 

[Howe_zat]

Mahela.

The difference between the teams is that he had almost no support.

Well said.

anyone who votes for Gambhir or Dhoni should be banned

Wait, what?

 

[Spikey]

just giving my opinion like.

but really i don't understand how peopole can vote for the other two. it was just a mile better knock. just because his team didn't win doesn't make it poorer than the other two.

 

[Shri]

Doesn't make it better either. I would say they were all equally important and would place Dhoni's and Jaya's innings higher than Gambhir's effort since they stayed out there till their team's innings were over.

 

[vcs]

Mahela, ridiculously easy on the eye. Will definitely be cheering on SL if they go further than India in WC '15, don't want guys like Sanga and Mahela missing out on a WC medal.

 

[_Ed_]

Mahela - I actually thought it was the innings of the tournament.

 

[jeevan]

Among the knocks played against India in this tournament - would rate Strauss' 156 at least the equal or even higher of this, though of course Indian fielding was **** vs Eng.

Gambhir threw it away with that mad charge, had he not done that - easily his knock would've been the one. He came in at 0/1, watched both India's best batsmen in the shed before he was settled and left at about 230/4. Had he perished 20 or 30 runs later - with victory in clear sight - his contribution would've mostly been the same , 110 or so instead of 97, but would've been remembered differently.

When the commentators kept saying that no one who scored a century in a WC final had lost, the only response that came to mind was that one Indian batsman needed to get a ton. And for the bulk of the innings, that batsman looked like Gambhir.

 

[Maximus0723]

All pretty close. I went with Mahela.

 

[Prince EWS]

Jayawardene has an almost unique ability to make me look past runs, balls, chances given and match context when assessing an innings. He proves I'm human.

Agree with Spikey.