Elegant batsmen

[SillyCowCorner1]

So everyone is forgetting the Carl Hooper late cut, eh?

 

[JBMAC]

Peter May, Ted Dexter, Tom Graveney,Greg Chappell, Dirk Wellham, Bob Cowper, David Gower, Alvin Kallicharan, Farok Engineer, These will all do for a start

 

[OverratedSanity]

Elegant attacking (relatively) batsmen : Azharuddin, VVS, Sangakkara, Martyn, Greg Chappell, Gundappa Vishwanath

Elegant but dour batsmen : Dravid, Kallis, Gavaskar

Elegant crap (relatively) batsmen : Darren Ganga, Sibanda, Hemang Badani

 

[DravidFan]

Elegant but dour batsmen : Dravid, Kallis, Gavaskar

I'll take Dravid and Gavaskar's dourness any day batting long hours to win (in Dravid's case) and save (in Gavaskar's case) many a test match for India.

 

[aussie tragic]

Elegant attacking (relatively) batsmen : Azharuddin, VVS, Sangakkara, Martyn, Greg Chappell, Gundappa Vishwanath

Elegant but dour batsmen : Dravid, Kallis, Gavaskar

Dour: relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance.

Elegant: pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner.

Seems it's one or the other, but not both in an 'Elegant Batsman thread'

 

[OverratedSanity]

Dour: relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance.

Elegant: pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner.

Seems it's one or the other, but not both in an 'Elegant Batsman thread'

I see absolutely no contradiction. Dravid and Kallis were both gloomy and dull in the manner/pace of their batting while playing very stylish strokes

 

[jcas0167]

Frank Woolley was perhaps the original tall languid left handed batsmen. I remember Gower was likened to him.

His batting was somehow luminous, and part of the Kentish scene. His bat surely sent out sounds never heard from any other cricketer’s bat, muted music of the game.

the 42 year old Woolley when, in 1929, he scored 219 against Bradman’s New South Wales. Forty years later he wrote it remains one of the most majestic and classical innings I have seen, with every stroke in the book played with supreme ease.

 

[Victor Ian]

I see absolutely no contradiction. Dravid and Kallis were both gloomy and dull in the manner/pace of their batting while playing very stylish strokes

Mark Waugh was elegant. Steve Waugh was dour. Chalk and cheese.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Mark Waugh was elegant. Steve Waugh was dour. Chalk and cheese.

Steve Waugh was dour and inelegant. Dravid was pretty as hell:

 

[Victor Ian]

Steve Waugh was elegant before he exchanged it for dour to increase his success. I get what your saying regarding Dravid, but I just agree with AT that dour is not the right word.

 

[ImpatientLime]

watching vaughan pull gillespie off a good length for 6 was mesmerising