Who is the best left handed batsman in the world?

[Slifer]

My team:

Hayden
Smith*
Sanga
Lara
Pollock
Sobers
Gilchrist +
Jadeja/Underwood
Davidson
Akram
Reid (Bruce)

If Underwood is preferred, he comes in at 10 and everyone else moves up.

 

[Burgey]

The ****, man?!?!?!

 

[Slifer]

The ****, man?!?!?!

????

 

[Burgey]

No AB in that side is a travesty ffs

 

[Senile Sentry]

The real AB bats right handed.

Totally Boring can be Drill Sargent for this team.

 

[Burgey]

Hush, Penile. The grown ups are talking.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Penile lmfao why is that so funny

 

[Slifer]

No AB in that side is a travesty ffs

Oh right I'm sorry. The only way to possibly get him in (imo) is to drop Sanga,move Lara up to 3, keep Pollock at 4 put Border in at 5. Lara and Sobers imo, are not debatable.

 

[Burgey]

Would play ahead of Pollock or Sanga tbh. More likely Pollock given he played all of 20 odd tests.

 

[Smudge49]

Warner is the OG when it comes to left hand bats this generation.

When it comes to all time Brain Charles Lara in tests and Michael Bevan in ODis.

 

[Flem274*]

im all for letting in these 2 test champions like pollock and barry richards as long as we acknowledge jack cowie as the goat. pews sim thing named him as such before pews simped for convention and changed his stats to hide the truth #neverforget #fightthepower #justiceforjack

 

[OverratedSanity]

Pollock's a far more reasonable pick in these things than Richards. 23 tests in a variety of conditions across 7-8 years isnt completely insignificant.

 

[Daemon]

Pollock is a tricky one, he was probably a better batsman imo but hard to ignore Border's body of work.

 

[Burgey]

Pollock's a far more reasonable pick in these things than Richards. 23 tests in a variety of conditions across 7-8 years isnt completely insignificant.

Except Richards wasn’t left handed, so yeah...

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I'm in speed reading mode so might have missed it, but David Gower doesn't seem to have been mentioned. He's obviously not the greatest currently or of all time, but superior to one or two mentioned in this thread.

 

[h_hurricane]

TOTAB to be the concussion sub for Hayden, assuming Ambrose is in the opposition.

 

[cnerd123]

Pollock is a tricky one, he was probably a better batsman imo but hard to ignore Border's body of work.

Bradman thought Pollock was the best left-hander he had ever seen though. I'm inclined to agree with him.

 

[Gob]

Bradman thought Pollock was the best left-hander he had ever seen though. I'm inclined to agree with him.

What series is this?

Surprisingly good television coverage

 

[cnerd123]

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This series, 4th unofficial Test

Peter Kirsten scored a ton of runs this series too, but IDK if there is footage anywhere. Also not left handed, so perhaps a topic for another thread.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Morris
Smith*
Sanga
Lara
Pollock
Sobers
Gilchrist +
Jadeja
Davidson
Akram
Wagner