Completely agree with Crowe. Gavaskar, Vishwanath and vengsarkar were the players who could perform on any pitch like in Aussie, Windies and England. BCCI should keep them in advising committee as when this will be required for such important trip.
Re: Gavaskar
by Sunil Vaidya on Dec 18, 2013 01:12 PM
just look at their away averages especially against aus sa eng wi and then tell whether they could perform on any pitch....
Just like Gavaskar Tendulkar had his own way of getting used to the pace attack.
During the net sessions, Tendulkar asks the fast bowlers to bowl from a couple of yards shorter. The idea is to reduce his own reflex time and also get used to bounce thats generated from short distance.
Bottomline, there are very few thinking cricketers around. But the real truth of fact is practice, practice and more practice at the nets. That makes a huge difference at big venues and games.
All the great results achieved without a helmet against savage West Indian attack on treacherous west Indian Pitches. Indeed the best Batsman INDIA has ever produced and one of the best in the world
Re: Sunny the Great
by dreamer formerlytaklu on Dec 18, 2013 02:01 PM
at the time wearing a helmet wasn't the norm , not only gavaskar most cricketers all over the world faced all kinds of bowlers without helmets, even into the late 80s, i've seen vengsarkar (with just the his hat), and azar and kapil with nothing to cover their heads facing fast bowlers.
Re: Sunny the Great
by Ravi on Dec 18, 2013 11:11 AM
Bollampally, Just to clarify, its not that Gavaskar was averse to wearing helmets. Its just because the helmets were not safer as compared to skull caps then.
The technology improved much to batsmans safety only much later. say when Tendulkar was around.
Today a batsman facing a fast bowler would be seen as a fool instead.
Gavaskar is indeed the best batsman to play for india simply because he faced the top West Indies fast bowlers and also knowing he and viswanath if out early india will collapse. He should have been given the Bharat Ratna instead of the politician Tendulkar.
Re: Sunil Gavaskar The Great
by Sudip Datta on Dec 18, 2013 11:45 AM
But Tendulkar faced the two best spinners of all time. One can form an argument in various ways.
Bottomline is it is impossible and improper to compare.
Absolutely marvelous technique developed by Sunil Gavaskar & given to Martin Crowe. Gavaskar is the greatest opening batsman of all time...Gireesh Kulkarni
Absolutely a marvelous technique perhaps known only to Sunny Gavaskar...perhaps he only had developed it...given to Martin Crowe...Sunny surely is a greatest opening batsman of all time..He made batting looks easy against the Windies pace battery...Gireesh Kulkarni
