DoG's Top 100 Test Batsmen Countdown Thread

[sunilz]

People will say it was against a weak attack blah blah but Adelaide 2003 was probably the best and most important individual performance by an Indian batsman overseas in my lifetime. Heroic stuff.

Laxman at Durban imo . The way entire SA team management and commentators were taunting Indian team after 1st test loss was unbearable.

Also Kohli at Adelaide > Dravid at Adelaide imo. Only difference was Sir Agarkar.

 

[srbhkshk]

It's probably true for most people if you look in detail but on the surface Agarkar had one weird career, he was a good bowler, a hit-me bowler , a brilliant counter-attacking batsman and an absolutely helpless batsman all rolled in one.

 

[vcs]

Laxman at Durban imo . The way entire SA team management and commentators were taunting Indian team after 1st test loss was unbearable.

Also Kohli at Adelaide > Dravid at Adelaide imo. Only difference was Sir Agarkar.

Winning a live Test against that Australian team in Australia trumps everything IMO. Think we were 80/4 or something at one stage having conceded 550+?

 

[OverratedSanity]

That Australian attack was weak only by Australian standards. Jason 'better than James Anderson' Gillespie, and Stuart 'would have taken 700 wickets if not for Warne' Magill were quality, and Bichel was a good bowler too. People act like it was Brad Williams bowling from both ends for 90 overs.

In time I think Pujara at Adelaide on the recent tour might be recognized as the greatest performance by an Indian batsman overseas.

 

[srbhkshk]

That Australian attack was weak only by Australian standards. Jason 'better than James Anderson' Gillespie, and Stuart 'would have taken 700 wickets if not for Warne' Magill were quality, and Bichel was a good bowler too. People act like it was Brad Williams bowling from both ends for 90 overs.

In time I think Pujara at Adelaide on the recent tour might be recognized as the greatest performance by an Indian batsman overseas.

I loved the 03/04 series for how each one of that legendary batting unit stood up in their own way in different tests, Ganguly in the first test , Dravid(Laxman) in the second , Sehwag in the third one and Sachin in the fourth. Truly a great team effort in that series.

 

[OverratedSanity]

If Sachin had bothered to not be shite before the last test, we'd have won the series.

 

[vcs]

Apart from the collapse at the end in Melbourne, MacGill was rubbish and India made him look pretty terrible. I remember we were in some trouble in the 4th innings with 70 odd to go and 4 down, and MacGill came on and bowled a series of pies, all of which were promptly dispatched by Laxman.

 

[srbhkshk]

If Sachin had bothered to not be shite before the last test, we'd have won the series.

By most of the Australian logic here, Sachin's was the only knock that should count, the rest all came before it really mattered.

 

[Logan]

Dravid scored 233 and 72* in the second Test.

Sachin scored 248 and 60* in the fourth Test.

Sachin’s knock was just as good as Dravid’s knock. Sachin was unlucky he didn’t have an Agarkar like spell to help India win the match.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Dravid scored 233 and 72* in the second Test.

Sachin scored 248 and 60* in the fourth Test.

Sachin’s knock was just as good as Dravid’s knock. Sachin was unlucky he didn’t have an Agarkar like spell to help India win the match.

Not even close to as good when you consider the situation of the match in both innings.

 

[Logan]

Gavaskar’s 221 in England is the best performance by an Indian batsman in overseas conditions IMO.

 

[Logan]

Not even close to as good when you consider the situation of the match in both innings.

For Sachin to play over 10 hours with a tennis elbow and play with so much restraint, it was every bit as good.

If India won that match, it would have been remembered as an equally great knock.

 

[Malcolm]

Dravid's 81 in Jamaica is such an underrated innings.

 

[honestbharani]

His twin 50s were cited by even Lara as one of the best ever batting performances he had seen.

 

[stephen]

That India vs Australia series was pretty epic. Probably the best batting I've seen by a batting unit touring Australia ever. Pity for India that the only bowler who stood up was Kumble. They'd easily have won that series if they'd had a Bumrah.

It's a classic case of sport not being played on paper. Australia should have annihilated India even without McGrath and Warne. But they displayed a lot of that arrogance that cost them the 05 Ashes series and didn't take their opponent as seriously as they should have.

 

[Migara]

Apart from the collapse at the end in Melbourne, MacGill was rubbish and India made him look pretty terrible. I remember we were in some trouble in the 4th innings with 70 odd to go and 4 down, and MacGill came on and bowled a series of pies, all of which were promptly dispatched by Laxman.

MacGill was a monster against who could not play spin. Against better players of spin, he was absolute rubbish.

 

[honestbharani]

Apart from the collapse at the end in Melbourne, MacGill was rubbish and India made him look pretty terrible. I remember we were in some trouble in the 4th innings with 70 odd to go and 4 down, and MacGill came on and bowled a series of pies, all of which were promptly dispatched by Laxman.

Cue the famous quote.. "Its not like they know what I am bowling, its like they don't care what I am bowling"...

 

[h_hurricane]

For Sachin to play over 10 hours with a tennis elbow and play with so much restraint, it was every bit as good.

If India won that match, it would have been remembered as an equally great knock.

On the contrary, it was his approach of playing himself back into form which cost India a better shot at winning the series. Still remember him leaving rubbish deliveries from MacGill outside the off stump in the second innings. In essence, he used the whole test match to play himself back into form instead of going that extra mile(which most great players of his comparable class would do) to help his team win something unprecedented. Not even remotely comparable to Dravid's masterclass in Adelaide without which we would not even have drawn the series.

Karma came back to haunt Sachin rightly in the Pakistan test series (194* declaration).

 

[h_hurricane]

Cue the famous quote.. "Its not like they know what I am bowling, its like they don't care what I am bowling"...

Would have loved if Warne would have been available for that series and bowled in tandem with MacGill in Sydney for instance. The saying could have been requoted as "Its not like they know what we are bowling, its like they don't care what we are bowling"

 

[vcs]

They definitely got complacent in that 2nd innings in Adelaide. They never believed they were in any trouble and they all played a bunch of loose shots, and before they knew it, they were 8 down and hardly 200 ahead. Agarkar's 6-fer was one of the least impressive match winning spells you'll ever see in terms of quality of bowling haha.