Most feared cricketers against ur team.

[Shri]

Md Yousuf from Pakistan?? Has been so-so against India, especially while playing in India. Had two series on either side of his purple patch and did nothing of note.

Salman Butt, Misbah, Younis have been more productive against India. In the 2007, Misbah just would not get out. As a batsman, even Kamran Akmal has been tough vs India (and not just 'that' Karachi knock) - except he's more than made up for it behind the stumps so he'd walk in any time into my team to play India :-)

Was always afraid of dying from boredom when he batted tbf.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Would disagree on Smith to be honest - got him out early too many times to be classed as reserving his best IMO.

Hoggy climbed all over him in 04/05, to such an extent that he went and hid in the middle order later in the series to try to avoid the new cherry, but his record against us is very good in spite of this.

 

[weldone]

......with sehwag up against good bowlers you always thought you were in with a chance............

Not really. He has murdered all good bowlers on flat tracks. He has also murdered the best of spinners on spinning paradises. He's only a little suspect against good 'pace' bowlers on 'bouncy' surfaces - and there too, he's not pathetic by any scale.

 

[Burgey]

Lara, Laxman and Tendulkar are the only three from about the mid-90s onwards.

There are others that had their moments, but really none that struck fear into me when Australia was at its best.

I know that sounds arrogant, but i really don't give a ****. It's true. These days I now fear the incompetence of our own players far more than I do the wonder of those in the other sides.

 

[weldone]

Most feared XI according to me against India (among those I've seen live):

Saeed Anwar
Matthew Hayden
Jacques Kallis
Javed Miandad
Steve Waugh*
Kumar Sangakkara
Andy Flower+
Curtly Ambrose
Glenn McGrath
Muttiah Muralitharan
Allan Donald

 

[Polo23]

As a kiwi:

Sangakkara
Ponting
Jayawardene
Inzy
Gilchrist
Strauss
Lee
Murali
Akhtar

 

[Spark]

Lara, Laxman and Tendulkar are the only three from about the mid-90s onwards.

There are others that had their moments, but really none that struck fear into me when Australia was at its best.

I know that sounds arrogant, but i really don't give a ****. It's true. These days I now fear the incompetence of our own players far more than I do the wonder of those in the other sides.

Steyn is one to fear for me nowadays in his own rights. His performances down here in the tour were bloody impressive, not least because one had a more than sneaking suspicion that that wasn't the best he had to offer by any means.

 

[SamSawnoff]

VVS.

I actually started feeling depressed before India even looked like winning that match in Mohali last year.


I knew what was coming.

 

[Teja.]

Gillespie and Steyn were the two bowlers I feared most against India. Macca was consistently good too and would make the top three among bowlers. Hayden was absolutely monstrous as well, had a feeling of total helplessness as he went on and on in that terribly unaesthetic style of his.

Can't really feel too bad when Sanga and Martyn are scoring regardless of oppo, I'd liken their scoring to murder through mixing of poison in wine while Haydos scoring against us was like being hit repeatedly with the edge of a half-broken concrete slab by an drunk underworld hitman with trash punk music being played in the background.

It must be said, I have always been scared of any opening partnership scoring 50 in quick time given our pacers have usually been a special kind of crap(Zak before 07 wasn't a great bowler too). Have a feeling of Deja vu and feel the oppo would end up scoring 500+, can't say the fear has been totally unjustified, tbh.

 

[Shri]

Would have been awesome to see post 2008 Zak against Hayden and Jayasuriya in their peaks. Has been owing most lefties since his second coming.

 

[Burgey]

Steyn is one to fear for me nowadays in his own rights. His performances down here in the tour were bloody impressive, not least because one had a more than sneaking suspicion that that wasn't the best he had to offer by any means.

Yeah that's a fair call as well. Mind you, most anyone who moves the ball a small amount and lands it in decent areas will trouble our blokes these days. They seem to have lost the ability to leave the ball alone

 

[robinjr]

from Australia's point of view I'd hate to face

Sehwag
Vaughan
Laxman
Tendulkar
Lara
Sangakkara
Flintoff
Kumble
Jones
Ambrose
Bond

 

[Spark]

That tour was whilst we were only **** every now and then though, not **** all over the place.

 

[Top_Cat]

Dammit Burgey, was going to say 'anyone with a remotely good outswinger'!

 

[Quaggas]

Langer
Hayden
Ponting
ME Waugh
SR Waugh
Martyn
Gilchrist
Warne
Lee
MacGill
McGrath

 

[SamSawnoff]

Yeah that's a fair call as well. Mind you, most anyone who moves the ball a small amount and lands it in decent areas will trouble our blokes these days. They seem to have lost the ability to leave the ball alone

True. The Lemmings have earned the right to have me worried about almost any half-decent bowler.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

Still traumatised by:
Dravid's 190
The combination of Wasim and Waqar
Any time Murali bowls to us
Chaminda Vaas if Stephen Fleming is batting

 

[Austerlitz]

Lara, Laxman and Tendulkar are the only three from about the mid-90s onwards.

There are others that had their moments, but really none that struck fear into me when Australia was at its best.

I know that sounds arrogant, but i really don't give a ****. It's true. These days I now fear the incompetence of our own players far more than I do the wonder of those in the other sides.

No ambrose?
Hayden in his autobiography described australian batsmen as 'lambs to the slaughter' vs an ambrose on song.

 

[Himannv]

McGrath, McGrath, McGrath, McGrath, McGrath, and McGrath.

 

[Lostman]

In Odi's Bracken.