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Sweetest Cover-Drives
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The Sean
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One of the all time great cricket photographs. Love it.
Victor Ian
International Coach
How did the ball get in his pocket?
subshakerz
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Saeed Anwar's drive was the most effortless I think.
honestbharani
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ashley bach
Cricketer Of The Year
Nobody had a better cover drive than this fella.
Prince EWS
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shortpitched713
International Captain
A truly rare sighting in the wild. Ranks with encounters of the yeti.
andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
Or Chris Martin
Pup Clarke
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Hussey had a pretty sweet cover drive. Duminy too. Just two examples from players of the recent past
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Tendulkar didn't have a particularly aesthetically pleasing cover drive imo but this one off Donald @ around 10:45 is incredible.
honestbharani
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Young Sachin had a brazenness in his strokeplay that we never saw post 1998 unfortunately.
Thin captaincy changed his batting style for the worse, as a viewer.
Thin captaincy changed his batting style for the worse, as a viewer.
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Hayden hit a cover drive in the 2007 WC that only bounced twice before it hit the rope. I've not seen a cover drive ever hit as hard.
Yeah it's Andrew Hall and it's a tiny ground, but jesus.
Yeah it's Andrew Hall and it's a tiny ground, but jesus.
The Sean
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That's a ridiculously good shot - Donald didn't even overpitch, Tendulkar just took it effortlessly on the up. Just so casually dismissive.
Chin Music
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As has been said above, there is a huge difference between the younger SRT and the older, post tennis elbow player. It is underestimated how fluid he was in his earlier days compared with his later, more conservative approach to batting.
Victor Ian
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The cover caress
Line and Length
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I remember listening to a Test broadcast and the commentator (Alan McGilvray perhaps) described Colin Cowdrey's cover drive boundary as a 'caress' that made so little sound he could have been using a banana.
I'd never describe them as "sweet" but the first time I saw KP bat, he hit a number of straight and cover drives that sounded like a shotgun going off.
Babar the modern master for me.