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*Official* India in Bangladesh

Sanz

Sanz

Hall of Fame Member
I like Gambhir's gloves, aware of the occasion and showing it off as well.

Ravi is so annoying talking about Bradman,
 
Craig

Craig

World Traveller
Why doesn't Shakib even have at least one slip to Gambhir? You still have to be looking for wickets.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Disappointed in the fashion of Gambhir and Sehwag's wickets. Gotta be better than that.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Uppercut said:
Talented by what standards? Obviously it takes a lot of talent to bat at this level at all, but he's not remotely talented by test standards. He's less talented than about 99% of test batsmen to play more than ten tests, I'd say.

Batting talent isn't the ability to score a hundred, it's the ability to score hundreds regularly. I see no talent watching Ashraful bat, and his hand-eye co-ordination looks terrible to me. Barely any of his shots ever come off the middle of the bat, and that's reflected in his test average. There are bowlers who bat with a similar carefree method and have a better average than he does. He's being outbatted by his own lower order ffs.

But "stroke making talent" is defined by most as how pretty it looks when one of them does come off the middle of the bat, so Ashraful fits the bill.
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No stroke making talent is defined by your ability to pull it off.. When he plays the shots to the right balls, he does a great job. It is just that he tries to play his shots to balls that he shouldn't do that to, but he does that anyways coz his defence is so weak.. And the times he tries to defend, he still gets out because that part of his batting has huge holes..


Having followed him for a few years now, I can say that with a reasonable amount of confidence...
 
thierry henry

thierry henry

International Coach
Jungle Jumbo said:
No, he is ridiculously talented, I think that's undeniable. His hand-eye co-ord is as good as any batsmen I've ever see.
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I can't get my head around this concept at all.

Ashraful's hopelessly low average is clear evidence that he offers far more chances than most international batsmen. 99% of the time, offering a chance is a result of not hitting a ball in the middle of the bat. The only real proof of hand-eye coordination for a batsman is consistently hitting the ball in the middle of the bat. Given how regularly Ashraful mi****s the ball, I think it's impossible to say that his hand-eye coordination is good by international standards. Certainly not as good as you make out, anyway.
 
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