World cricket's young batsmen - How good can they be?

[RedwoodOriginal]

Many young batsmen in the world currently who are viewed as their country's future stars. Their respective countries seem to be giving them all the long rope but question is who will evolve into genuine match-winners and who will fizzle out and fade into obscurity?

Batsmen I'm talking about are all n the 23-26 year age bracket.



Pakistan: Babar Azam

Sri Lanka: Kusal Mendis, Dhananjaya de Silva

South Africa: Aiden Markram

West Indies: Shai Hope

India: KL Rahul

New Zealand: Tom Latham, Henry Nicholls

Australia: Peter Handscomb, Travis Head

England: no one


All of them have a long way to go but personally, I think Aiden Markram has the potential to be the greatest among all of them. He is already viewed as a future leader and has had a great start to his test career (barring the Sri Lanka tour).

Babar Azam I think will also have a great career and has the potential to be a Pakistani great. He's only 23 but has already established himself in the limited-overs side and finally started showing signs of improvement in tests aswell in England and Ireland.

I like Dhananjaya de Silva aswell. As a batsman he has all the shots and that innings in India to save the test match on the final day shows he has class but he needs to start being more consistent since he's 26 which means he needs to start coming into his own as a gun batsman soon.

 

[zain7077]

Many young batsmen in the world currently who are viewed as their country's future stars. Their respective countries seem to be giving them all the long rope but question is who will evolve into genuine match-winners and who will fizzle out and fade into obscurity?

Batsmen I'm talking about are all n the 23-26 year age bracket.



Pakistan: Babar Azam

Sri Lanka: Kusal Mendis, Dhananjaya de Silva

South Africa: Aiden Markram

West Indies: Shai Hope

India: KL Rahul

New Zealand: Tom Latham, Henry Nicholls

Australia: Peter Handscomb, Travis Head

England: no one


All of them have a long way to go but personally, I think Aiden Markram has the potential to be the greatest among all of them. He is already viewed as a future leader and has had a great start to his test career (barring the Sri Lanka tour).

Babar Azam I think will also have a great career and has the potential to be a Pakistani great. He's only 23 but has already established himself in the limited-overs side and finally started showing signs of improvement in tests aswell in England and Ireland.

I like Dhananjaya de Silva aswell. As a batsman he has all the shots and that innings in India to save the test match on the final day shows he has class but he needs to start being more consistent since he's 26 which means he needs to start coming into his own as a gun batsman soon.

You are right.

Babar and Markram have the highest ceilings in term of all formats.

Shai Hope will be outstanding in tests. Rahul and Dhananjaya are already 26+ and have not achieved as much as they should have.

IMO Babar Markram and Mendis will have the most prosperous careers and in that order too.

 

[zain7077]

You are right.

Babar and Markram have the highest ceilings in term of all formats.

Shai Hope will be outstanding in tests. Rahul and Dhananjaya are already 26+ and have not achieved as much as they should have.

IMO Babar Markram and Mendis will have the most prosperous careers and in that order too.

Oli Pope of England looked pretty good too!

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Rahul is almost 27.

 

[anonymous_guy]

Many young batsmen in the world currently who are viewed as their country's future stars. Their respective countries seem to be giving them all the long rope but question is who will evolve into genuine match-winners and who will fizzle out and fade into obscurity?

Batsmen I'm talking about are all n the 23-26 year age bracket.



Pakistan: Babar Azam

Sri Lanka: Kusal Mendis, Dhananjaya de Silva

South Africa: Aiden Markram

West Indies: Shai Hope

India: KL Rahul

New Zealand: Tom Latham, Henry Nicholls

Australia: Peter Handscomb, Travis Head

England: no one


All of them have a long way to go but personally, I think Aiden Markram has the potential to be the greatest among all of them. He is already viewed as a future leader and has had a great start to his test career (barring the Sri Lanka tour).

Babar Azam I think will also have a great career and has the potential to be a Pakistani great. He's only 23 but has already established himself in the limited-overs side and finally started showing signs of improvement in tests aswell in England and Ireland.

I like Dhananjaya de Silva aswell. As a batsman he has all the shots and that innings in India to save the test match on the final day shows he has class but he needs to start being more consistent since he's 26 which means he needs to start coming into his own as a gun batsman soon.

Sri Lanka's Kushal Mendis looks like a real deal in test matches, although he isn't consistent yet he has some superb innings in his test match resume. I will put my money on him to be a very good test match batsman for Sri Lanka.

Aiden Markram had a very good start to his international career but he has been exposed against quality spinners, which is the case for most of the non-Asian batsmen, how good will he be depends on how well he plays spin in future.

These 2 are the best of the lot along with Babar Azam and K L Rahul.

 

[MenInG]

Many young batsmen in the world currently who are viewed as their country's future stars. Their respective countries seem to be giving them all the long rope but question is who will evolve into genuine match-winners and who will fizzle out and fade into obscurity?

Batsmen I'm talking about are all n the 23-26 year age bracket.



Pakistan: Babar Azam

Sri Lanka: Kusal Mendis, Dhananjaya de Silva

South Africa: Aiden Markram

West Indies: Shai Hope

India: KL Rahul

New Zealand: Tom Latham, Henry Nicholls

Australia: Peter Handscomb, Travis Head

England: no one


All of them have a long way to go but personally, I think Aiden Markram has the potential to be the greatest among all of them. He is already viewed as a future leader and has had a great start to his test career (barring the Sri Lanka tour).

Babar Azam I think will also have a great career and has the potential to be a Pakistani great. He's only 23 but has already established himself in the limited-overs side and finally started showing signs of improvement in tests aswell in England and Ireland.

I like Dhananjaya de Silva aswell. As a batsman he has all the shots and that innings in India to save the test match on the final day shows he has class but he needs to start being more consistent since he's 26 which means he needs to start coming into his own as a gun batsman soon.

109 for his side in the ongoing Sri Lanka v New Zealand Test!

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

109 for his side in the ongoing Sri Lanka v New Zealand Test!

I think he was very lucky initially considering the sitter Boult dropped. But once he was in, he played beautifully. Never easy batting with the tail but he showed alot of class, played aggressively too. I see him thriving in this lower middle-order role.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Brilliant hundred by Tom Latham aswell today.