Sehwag greatest ever in sub continent?

[ret]

It isn't a bad thing at all. He'd be of far less use to India if he was **** against spin but was outstanding on seaming tracks.

You mean tracks like the one at Nagpur where he scored a 100 despite Styen making the ball talk .... Or the 50s he scored at the same venue when Aus could not believe its luck to find a green pitch. The match in which Ganguly did not play

 

[Furball]

No

 

[ret]

No

Or the track where he was the 2nd highest scorer for India at Durban where lax played that classic knock?

If yes, then we can remove anty reservations we hv against Sehwag and safely close the case

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah, early this year in RSA was a bit of an interesting one with Sehwag. He was getting to starts, sometimes lucky but sometimes playing well but then was getting out in weird ways.. Soft dismissals, nothing to do with the pitch or the bowlers' or fielders' brilliance.. Just scooping balls to cover or mid off and like..


England was far worse although he had been out of cricket for so long and to take on that bowling line up in those conditions, I felt would have been too much for any batsman of today.. Let it be Ponting or Dravid or Sachin or Kallis or Sanga, I felt they would have struggled just like Sehwag if they came off such a big offtime straight to those tests...

 

[weldone]

It isn't a bad thing at all. He'd be of far less use to India if he was **** against spin but was outstanding on seaming tracks.

True. He'd have been a Mohinder Amarnath in that case.

 

[weldone]

Back to the thread topic, fair shout. I personally would give the title to Tendulkar because of huge longevity (almost 9000 runs @ 60, IIRC). Garry Sobers also was imperious in SC - had almost a Bradman-esque average with more than 10 matches in SC IIRC.

 

[honestbharani]

Nah.. Sachin has great numbers but Sehwag'' SR + Avg and the fact that he has been doing it for almost 10 years now too shows that he is very much THE MAN when it comes batting on these tracks.. He is just so absurdly good.

 

[abmk]

My top 5 in 'Asia' would probably be in no particular order:

Sehwag
Sachin
Mahela
Gavaskar
Inzi

 

[Xuhaib]

yeah there are plenty of India-Pak-SL greats who average in the range of 55-65 but their SR in all cases under 60. Sehwag is the only one who combines that similar average with a SR of 80+.

 

[smash84]

I think I would Mahela behind Gavaskar, Miandad, Sangakkara (??) and Inzy

 

[Migara]

Bradman would have easily adjusted to the low bounce and spin on the flattest tracks of th world, and would have averaged 200 with a SR of 70. So no chance.

 

[Migara]

Further evidence of him being a bludgeoning flat-track bully.

But all those English batsmen were piss poor on those flat tracks.

 

[Migara]

Pietersen averages 40 in India.

But averages 27 in SL

 

[Migara]

Discounting Lara, I would say Sehwag is pretty much the best test batsman of the last decade

Big call, especially with Sanga and Kallis are around

 

[Migara]

It isn't a bad thing at all. He'd be of far less use to India if he was **** against spin but was outstanding on seaming tracks.

Massively disagree. A player good against pace and poor against spin will have a party time in Indian team, because even tail enders will bash the spinners for fun. When spin is the key against such a player, it will be playing in to the hands of the rest of the team, and will find it difficult to maintain the attack. The prime example is Sangakkara. Would have averaged lesser if he was in a team which has poor batsmen against spin.

 

[smash84]

Massively disagree. A player good against pace and poor against spin will have a party time in Indian team, because even tail enders will bash the spinners for fun. When spin is the key against such a player, it will be playing in to the hands of the rest of the team, and will find it difficult to maintain the attack. The prime example is Sangakkara. Would have averaged lesser if he was in a team which has poor batsmen against spin.

Fair point

 

[Burgey]

Yeah, early this year in RSA was a bit of an interesting one with Sehwag. He was getting to starts, sometimes lucky but sometimes playing well but then was getting out in weird ways.. Soft dismissals, nothing to do with the pitch or the bowlers' or fielders' brilliance.. Just scooping balls to cover or mid off and like..


England was far worse although he had been out of cricket for so long and to take on that bowling line up in those conditions, I felt would have been too much for any batsman of today.. Let it be Ponting or Dravid or Sachin or Kallis or Sanga, I felt they would have struggled just like Sehwag if they came off such a big offtime straight to those tests...

Yeah it was always going to be a tall order.

 

[Cabinet96]

Tim Bresnan averages 91 in subcontinental conditions and has won every test he's played there.

QED.

Should've closed the thread after that IMO.

 

[sledger]

But all those English batsmen were piss poor on those flat tracks.

Because they're not bullies. Duh.

 

[Jono]

You're a bully