Slowest batters

[cover drive man]

Always thought from what I saw of him Geoffrey Boycott was slow with his batting.

 

[Days of Grace]

Brearley was even slower, I think.

Hanif Mohammad was known for his marothon innings.

 

[Glacier]

Rajin Saleh

 

[vic_orthdox]

Irony of a member called "Glacier" posting in here?

 

[bond21]

edrich.....

one shot, leg glance to fine leg, would score 15 and bat all day

 

[Days of Grace]

Never heard of him, troll.

 

[Glacier]

Irony of a member called "Glacier" posting in here?

 

[bond21]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edrich

if that was a reply to me grace.

 

[TT Boy]

Daren Ganga, Boycott himself whilst on commentary suggested Ganga is too pedestrian for his own good.

 

[Random Hero]

Ol' Bill "Corpse with Pads on" Lawry deserves a mention here I reckon.

 

[Goughy]

Tavare and Trevor Bailey anyone?

 

[gettingbetter]

Some modern ones; Kallis, Dravid, A. Chopra, Atherton, Chanderpaul - all good to watch though.

 

[grecian]

Slasher should be there by all accounts.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Tavare, definitely. Obscenely slow, with a career SR of 30.

 

[ozone]

Some modern ones; Kallis, Dravid, A. Chopra, Atherton, Chanderpaul - all good to watch though.

Wouldn't say anybody modern was ever really slow. If you placed them in the 1970's they would have been considered sloggers...

Sunil Gavaskar gets my vote entirely based on one innings. http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65035.html

 

[Richard]

Tavare, definitely. Obscenely slow, with a career SR of 30.

He at least has the excuse that he was mostly batting out of position.

Think Bill Woodfull was one of the slowest, typically?

 

[Flem274*]

Mark Richardson. Effective though.

 

[haroon510]

players that i have seen

Dravid, Kallis, atapatu, Jimmy adams, mohmmad hafiz, imran farhat, ashwel prince, Atherton and afew others i can't remember now

i heard boycott and Gavaskar were both very slow.. i haven't seen them bat though..

 

[Zinzan]

Tavare and Trevor Bailey anyone?

Bingo ! Tavare made Geoff Boycott look like Viv Richards

 

[neville cardus]

Here is Sir Nev's comprehensive list. It rolleth off the tongue.

Aamer Malik
Jimmy Adams
Aminul Islam
Asif Mujtaba
Marvan Atapatu
Mike Atherton
Trevor Bailey
Alec Bannerman
Dick Barlow
Ian Bishop
Geoffrey Boycott
Mike Brearley
Andy Caddick
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Aakash Chopra
Bevan Congdon
Colin Cowdrey
Jeff Crowe
Tim Curtis
Kumar Dharmasena
Graham Dilley
Tony Dodemaide
Allan Donald
Johnny Won't Hit Today
Paul Downton
Rahul Dravid
John Dyson
Bruce Edgar
Bill Edrich
John Emburey
Jack Fingleton
Grant Flower
James Franklin
Daren Ganga
Sunil Gavaskar
Jason Gillespie
Adrian Griffith
Trevor Gripper
Hanif Mohammad
Chris Harris
Robbie Hart
Lindsay Hassett
Brian Hastings
Chandika Hathurusingha
Matthew Hoggard
Conrad Hunte
Len Hutton
Raymond Illingworth
Imran Farhat
Douglas Jardine
Gilbert Jessop
Jacques Kallis
Charlie Kelleway
Khaled Mashud
Peter Kirsten
Brendon Kuruppu
Bill Lawry
John Lever
Bunny Lucas
Brian Luckhurst
Alfred Lyttelton
Slasher
Geoff Marsh
Chris Martin (whose strike-rate recently climbed above twenty)
Geoff Miller
Mohammad Hafeez
Mudassar Nazar
Billy Murdoch
Mushtaq Mohammad
Danny Morrison
Dion Nash
Bert Oldfield
John Parker
Blair Pocock
Venkatesh Prasana
Ashwell Prince
Derek Pringle
Rajin Saleh
Rameez Raja
Mark Ramprakash
John Reid
Mark Richardson (who had, in his apoplectic prime, a strike-rate [37.7] identical to those [admittedly incomplete] of Len Hutton, Wally Hammond and <gasp> Denis Compton)
Rizwan-uz-Zaman
Graham Roope
Jack Russell
Saqlain Mushtaq
Block-Block
Shoaib Mohammad
Herbert Sutcliffe
Chris Tavare
Hugh Tayfield
Bob Taylor
Tauseef Ahmed
Fred Titmus
Glenn Turner
Roger Twose
Stephen Ulyate
Hedley Verity
Tom Walker
Wasim Bari
Dirk Wellham
Bob Willis
Bill Woodfull
John Wright
Bob Wyatt
Yashpal Sharma

Top that, bitches.