Best Players that You have Watched Play

[Burgey]

I do think him batting 141 times below 4 in a quite weak batting line-up atleast not pron to partial criticize.

He batted below four when he first came into the side then went back below four once Mark Waugh came in and cemented his spot there in the last three years of Border’s career. By that time the Aus line up wasn’t weak - they were pushing for the number one spot in the world.
He adapted to the needs of his team, and took the elevator up and down as required. Unlike some others who dgaf about the needs of their side and just chose the spot they liked most and stayed there regardless.

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

He batted at both 5 and 6 almost as much as 4 though.

He was versatile and successful batting from 3 to 6, all for substantial periods of time. A real top tier genius

 

[flibbertyjibber]

I'll just do a sample

Richards
Gower
Ponting
Lara
Tendulkar
Border
Root
Waugh x2

McGrath
Warne
Hadlee
Anderson
Broad
Ambrose
Walsh

Quickest would be Mark Wood

 

[Molehill]

I'd struggle to think of any of the top players in the last 30 years I haven't seen play.

Quickest for me would be Shoaib Akhtar, but the bowler I loved watching the most was Dale Steyn, everything just seemed so perfectly balanced.

 

[govinda indian fan]

Not an atg but best innings I have seen as a spectator was Shastri’s 206 on Warne’s debut

Doesn’t get talked about but Warne actually bowled a lot of good balls in that game

Was shastri actually a boring batsman?

 

[reyrey]

Watching Archer bowl and look so effortlessly fast is quite something.

 

[honestbharani]

Unlike some others who dgaf about the needs of their side and just chose the spot they liked most and stayed there regardless.

But enough about Ponting.

 

[Qlder]

I watched Viv Richards play an ODI at the SCG once. He made 2

 

[Burgey]

I'd struggle to think of any of the top players in the last 30 years I haven't seen play.

Quickest for me would be Shoaib Akhtar, but the bowler I loved watching the most was Dale Steyn, everything just seemed so perfectly balanced.

Yeah Steyn was a fantastic watch. Akram too.

I loved how demonstrative they were.

 

[Third_Man]

Depends on the era:
Trueman, Statham, Washbrook, Ikin on to Dexter, Pollock brothers, Barlow then Clive Lloyd, Engineer, Gavaskar to Akram, Waqar, Stewart, Thorpe, Ramprakash, Muralitharan, Chapple, Anderson, Law, Katich, Prince, Flintoff, Chanderpaul, Pietersen even Livingstone before becoming a mercenary.

 

[Chin Music]

In the flesh

Greenidge
Haynes
Lara
SRT
Richards
Gilchrist +
Botham
Wasim
Warne
McGrath
Muralitharan