Who was/is the best player of the reverse sweep?

[Rayyman]

-Javed Miandad
-Mahela Jayawardene
-Misbah ul-Haq
-Glenn Maxwell
-AB De Villiers

Any others?

 

[zyrus]

Morgan?

 

[Rayyman]

Morgan?

Oh yea, he's pretty good too.

 

[badsha001]

David Warner... Remember the six he hit to Ashwin

 

[marlonbrowndo]

David Warner... Remember the six he hit to Ashwin

Difference between the reverse sweep and switch hit

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Has to be Misbah

 

[The_Odd_One]

Javed Miandad

 

[Abdul]

Misbah.

 

[hafizexpress]

Glenn Maxwell.. he's the quickest and has the most power.
I can't say much about Miandad as I've never seen him play

 

[Sanzcool]

Andy Flower is arguably the GOAT of reverse sweep. Misbah and Morgan are good too

 

[msb314]

-Javed Miandad
-Mahela Jayawardene
-Misbah ul-Haq
-Glenn Maxwell
-AB De Villiers

Any others?

Only YK plays the proper reverse sweep.

The rest on your list actually play the switch hit. There is a subtle difference between the two.

 

[msb314]

Has to be Misbah

Misbah also actually plays the switch hit and not the reverse sweep.

YK plays the traditional reverse sweep.

 

[Cuts_and_cuts_hard]

Andy Flower. BY FAR. He could play all sorts of reverse sweeps... powerful ones in front of square, delicate nudges for singles, paddles behind square... I think he even hit a couple of sixes of reverse sweeps, which I've never seen before or since.

 

[Cuts_and_cuts_hard]

Only YK plays the proper reverse sweep.

The rest on your list actually play the switch hit. There is a subtle difference between the two.

de Villiers does play the traditional reverse sweep without the change of grip.

 

[Arsalan Pro]

Misbah.

 

[TQ89]

Misbah and Younis

 

[Bilal7]

Misbah. One of the only shots he looked elegant and natural playing.

 

[shaz619]

Has to be Misbah

The way Misbah plays it is like back handing someone's face with a big thapar [MENTION=865]Big Mac[/MENTION], like tish! Come again Hatersrby

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Misbah

 

[Bhaijaan]

Andy Flower by far.

The most fluent and confident batsman i have ever seen deploying the sweep shot. Every team i see the sweep, in my mind i compare it to Andy as gold standard.

 

[Mamoon]

Andy Flower without a doubt.

 

[Robert]

I saw Greenidge reverse sweep Qadir over the slips for four once. The crowd gasped!

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Andy Flower reverse sweeping Murali and making it look easy was really a sight to see.

 

[Bhaijaan]

I saw Greenidge reverse sweep Qadir over the slips for four once. The crowd gasped!

What about Myke Gatting bro.

 

[StreetSmart]

Andy Flower without a doubt.

I was thinking the same well said

 

[Hitman]

Anyone who has seen the genius of Andy Flower and his reverse sweeps will know first hand that no one, absolutely no one even comes close to him in that regard.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

From the batsmen who I've seen,Misbah and Younus.

De Villiers too.

 

[Executioner]

Andy flower.

Currently it's Morgan

 

[dauntless]

Misbah he can play this shot with his eyes shut! Really really good at this!

 

[Zak_Fan]

Old timers like me wouldn't argue against Andy's genius when it came to reverse sweeps. Easily the best I have seen.

 

[AamchiMumbaikar]

Andy flower

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Anyone who has seen the genius of Andy Flower and his reverse sweeps will know first hand that no one, absolutely no one even comes close to him in that regard.

I have seen both and think Misbah is better.
Andy's shot is better but reverse sweep resulted in more success for Misbah. He had consistently nullified spin out of the rough playing this shot and kept the scoreboard ticking.
I would even say this is one of Misbah's best shot and caused trouble to spinners. They didn't know where and bowl and how to set a field for this.

 

[Robert]

What about Myke Gatting bro.

Gatt played it very well apart from that mistake in the WC87 final. It was a shame as he had Australia on the rack at the time.

 

[NauV]

Andy flower . .

 

[GreenShirts]

AB De Villiers and Younus Khan.

 

[Iffitheking]

Andy flower without shadow of doubt... I guess OP doesn't even know him or seen him play.

 

[Monsee]

Switch hit by Junaid Khan, whoa: https://youtu.be/eO_lgzkPsI0?t=6

 

[Pollack]

Andy Flower was too good.

 

[captain crook]

ANdy Flower anyone? The finest reverse sweep I saw. He often reverse swept oppositions into submission.

 

[captain crook]

Oh, I see that many have taken Andy's name before me! This forum has a decent number of posters with good cricketing IQ.

 

[khurram39]

I go with Morgan.

 

[Square Drive]

From the ones I've seen, it's a tough call between Morgan/Misbah.

 

[Haroon786]

Morgan is the one that popularised the shot again in the last decade and is also the best exponent of it too considering his ability to play it against medium pacers as well as spinners.

 

[Major]

Misbah had the most ugly reverse sweep, but his success rate was high

 

[MenInG]

Usman Khawaja did it in UAE recently and now QdK doing it with ease vs Shadab - is this now a proper cricketing shot?

 

[jeeteshssaxena]

No one mentioned SRT?
I have seen SRT playing reverse sweeps to perfection many times in ODI Cricket.

 

[ManFan]

Andy Flower.

Miandad a close second.

 

[hasanali22]

Eoin Morgan

 

[hasanali22]

ABD wasn't bad either.

 

[xricket]

Shadab should develop flipper. Otherwise dekok will always play reverse sweep

 

[EliteCynical]

Andy Flower without a doubt.

Thank you. Someone agrees with me. He was the pioneer and the best IMO. reverse swept India to a 242* at Nagpur

 

[EliteCynical]

No one mentioned SRT?
I have seen SRT playing reverse sweeps to perfection many times in ODI Cricket.

He has but he always relied on paddle sweep. Never played Reverse too often.. However one reverse sweep vs SA in Mohinder Amarnath benefit match in 1996/97 was so perfect that the commentator (Tervor Quirk) said it was the best he had ever seen!

 

[TheNeutralist]

Mike Gatting (Just kidding)

Andy Flower was the best

 

[Abdullah]

The sweep is a vital shot for the middle overs Vs spinners with the field restrictions as they r.
That's why I keep advocating for sarfaraz to bat between overs 20-40

 

[mastermind_quad]

Andy Flower.

 

[ShahidDar08]

-Javed Miandad
-Mahela Jayawardene
-Misbah ul-Haq
-Glenn Maxwell
-AB De Villiers

Any others?

Andy Flower was best.

 

[Majid Khan]

Miandad was to reverse sweep as a batsman , what Viv was to the hook, Lara to the pull on one leg, and Hafeez to the ‘edge from angled bat caught at first slip’ stroke — the best in the business at playing that stroke.