Your top 10 Indian batsmen of all time

[Bhaijaan]

My rating-

Top 10 Test batsmen -

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Mohinder Amarnath
5. Virender Sehwag
6. Vijay Hazare
7. Mohd. Azharuddin
8. VVS Laxman
9. Gundappa Viswanath
10. Saurav Ganguly


***The legend MHK Pataudi didn't make it just because of not having a record that compares well with these 10 and we can only speculate how good he would have been if he had full vision. In my eyes, he should be right in the middle of this list.






Top 10 ODI batsmen-

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. MS Dhoni
3. Yuvraj Singh
4. Virender Sehwag
5. Saurav Ganguly
6. Gautum Gambhir
7. Rahul Dravid
8. Virat Kohli
9. Mohd Azharuddin
10. Ajay Jadeja

*** Six of them are still active, MSD and Kohli may well beat SRT for top spot by the time they retire so exciting prospect. Just shows how lucky we have been in batting to have such great talent.






Top 10 batsmen regardless of format-

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Sunil Gavaskar
3. Virender Sehwag
4. Rahul Dravid
5. Saurav Ganguly
6. Mohd Azharuddin
7. Mohinder Amarnath
8. VVS Laxman
9. Gautum Gambhir
10. Gundappa Viswanath

 

[iZeeshan]

Kohli on that list already?

Wow.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Kohli on that list already?

Wow.

He's in my top 10 ODI batsmen list and i guess he deserves to be there already with that kind of a record. With 10 hundreds in 90 odd outings, he is the quickest ever to do it. I actually felt a little weird putting him at #8 because he is gonna be moving up the charts in coming yeares, no doubt about about that.

 

[justarslan]

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Rahul Dravid
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Gundappa Viswanath
5. VVS Laxman
6. Mohd. Azharuddin
7. Virender Sehwag
8. Vijay Hazare
9. M.S. Dhoni
10. Kapil Dev

 

[Pakistanpassion]

Dont get me wrong, Kohli is a very good batsman, but why would you rate him high when majority of his centuries is in SubCont. I repeat Majority, not ALL CENTURIES.

 

[Bhaijaan]

It's not that he is in my test or overall list. Even if he stops playing Cricket right now, i'll have him in my ODI list for what he has done so far. It's an incredible record.

 

[IgnitedMind]

Tests

1. Sunil Gavaskar

2. Rahul Dravid

3. Sachin Tendulkar

4. Hazare

5. Mohd Azharudhin

6. VVS LAxman

7. Sehwag

8. Viswanath

9. Sourav Ganguly

ODI's

1. Sachin Tendulkar

2. Sourav Ganguly

3. Dhoni

4. Yuvraj Singh

5. Mohd Azharudhin

6. Rahul Dravid

7. Gautam

8. Kris Srikanth

9. Ajay Jadeja

10. Robin Singh ( I remember him playing well in ODI's )

 

[PakPrince]

It's not that he is in my test or overall list. Even if he stops playing Cricket right now, i'll have him in my ODI list for what he has done so far. It's an incredible record.

he flopped in the world cup tough didnt he?

 

[kkmix]

1) Dravid
2) ...
3) ...
4) ...

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Odis

1. Ganguly
2. Dhoni
3. Yuvraj
4. Kohli
5. Gambhir
6. Sewag
7. Sachin
8. Azharuddin
9. Raina
10. Mohammed Kaif

 

[BlackThunder]

Test:

Gavaskar
Tandulkar
Dravid
Hazare
Azharuddin
Laxman
Sehwag
Ganguly

ODI

Tendulkar
Sehwag
Ganguly
Kapil
Yuvraj
Gambhir
Dhoni
Dravid
Kohli

 

[Bhaijaan]

Odis

1. Ganguly
2. Dhoni
3. Yuvraj
4. Kohli
5. Gambhir
6. Sewag
7. Sachin
8. Azharuddin
9. Raina
10. Mohammed Kaif

Since this is your personal favorites list without justification for each rank, why did you even bother having SRT in there?

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Since this is your personal favorites list without justification for each rank, why did you even bother having SRT in there?

My favorite player's favorite batsman is

Kuch Kuch hota hai jab Sachin batting karta hain

Tum nehi samjo ge freelance

 

[Justcrazy]

Test


Sunil Gavaskar

R.Dravid

Viswanath

Tendulkar

Laxman

AZhar

Manjerekar

Kambli

Vensarkar

Amarnath


ODI


Tendulkar
Yuvraj
Ganguly
Virat Kohli
Dhoni
Jadeja
Azhar
sehwag
Robin singh
Rohit Sharma

 

[fusebulb]

Tendulkar
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Kohli
V. Kambli
Sehwag
Dravid
Ganguly
Gavaskar
K. Shrikant

Azhar would have been up there ... but is ignored because he was a match fixer, so is Jadeja

 

[eradicator]

My Top 5 Batsmen from India with Tests+ Odis Combined .

1 ) SRT
2 ) Sehwag
3 ) Gavaskar
4 ) Dravid
5 ) Ganguly .

 

[boomboomcheema]

My Top 5 Batsmen from India with Tests+ Odis Combined .

1 ) SRT
2 ) Sehwag
3 ) Gavaskar
4 ) Dravid
5 ) Ganguly .

You must be kidding. ftb Sehwag over Gavaskar ?

 

[King Cobra]

Tests :

Tendulkar
Gavaskar
Dravid
Laxman
Sehwag
Amarnath
Azhar
Hazare
Vishwanath
Ganguly

Odis :
Tendulkar
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Ganguly
Kohli
Sehwag
Gambhir
Azhar
Kaif
Raina

 

[fusebulb]

Tests :

Tendulkar
Gavaskar
Dravid
Laxman
Sehwag
Amarnath
Azhar
Hazare
Vishwanath
Ganguly

Odis :
Tendulkar
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Ganguly
Kohli
Sehwag
Gambhir
Azhar
Kaif
Raina

I request my friends not to include the Match fixers in your list ...

For God's sake they have sold our country for few rupees...

They don't deserve to be there...

 

[Bhaijaan]

Please guys don't take the 'MY' too seriously. Put personal bias aside and rank them how you think they should be.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Test


Sunil Gavaskar

R.Dravid

Viswanath

Tendulkar

Laxman

AZhar

Manjerekar

Kambli

Vensarkar

Viswanath > Tendulkar?
Manjrekar, Kambli in the list ahead of Amarnath, Ganguly, Hazare?

Please explain.

ODI


Tendulkar
Yuvraj
Ganguly
Virat Kohli
Dhoni
Jadeja
Azhar
sehwag
Robin singh
Rohit Sharma

Jadeja > Sehwag?
Robin Singh and Sharma in the list?

Explain this too.

 

[leatherface58]

Tests

1. Tendulkar
2. Gavaskar
3. Dravid
4. Sehwag
5. Ganguly
6. Laxman
7. Vishwanath
8. Amarnath
9. Dilip Vengsarkar
10. Sidhu


ODIs

1. Tendulkar
2. Ganguly
3. Dhoni
4. Yuvraj
5. Sehwag
6. Kohli
7. Gambhir
8. Dravid
9. Kapil Dev
10. Suresh Raina

 

[Blitz]

I can't be bothered to find 10:

Tests:

1. Gavasker
2. Dravid
3. Sachin

ODIs:

1. Dhoni
2. Sachin
3. Ganguly

 

[Romali_rotti]

1) SRT
2) Vaskar
3) Mohinder Amarnath (The real Greatest batsmen of pace)
4) Vishwanath
5) Dravid
6) Shastri
7) Vensarkar
8) Manjrekar
9) Match Fixer
10) Kapil Dev

 

[King Cobra]

Viswanath > Tendulkar?
Manjrekar, Kambli in the list ahead of Amarnath, Ganguly, Hazare?

Please explain.

Kya yaar , simple reason hai .

Vishwanath averages mammoth 41 in Tests but Tendulkar averages only a measly 55 in Tests ,

41 > 55

Hence proved .

After 2-3 Test Series , dont be surprised if Tendulkar gets pushed below Manjrekar and Kambli .

 

[King Cobra]

1) SRT
2) Vaskar
3) Mohinder Amarnath (The real Greatest batsmen of pace)
4) Vishwanath
5) Dravid
6) Shastri
7) Vensarkar
8) Manjrekar
9) Match Fixer
10) Kapil Dev

Paaji , u forgot vvs .

 

[hafeezrocks]

Tests

Gavasker
Tendu
Dravid
Laxman
Ganguly


Odis

Tendu
Yuvi
Ganguly
Dhoni

 

[Spiderguy252]

Anybody who puts Sehwag on any of their test lists is insane.

 

[Bhaijaan]

3) Mohinder Amarnath (The real Greatest batsmen of pace)

Absolutely agreed bhai. It's a great story because when he started back in 1969 he was like today's Suresh Raina. Was badly found out against pace and bounce. But he retured a decade later as an absolute fighter and by the time he retired ( except for his last year dip in form) he was one of the best batsmen in the whole world against pace bowling, certainly from India.

His heroics in West Indies and Pakistan will never be forgotten.

Viswanath > Tendulkar?
Manjrekar, Kambli in the list ahead of Amarnath, Ganguly, Hazare?

Please explain.

Kya yaar , simple reason hai .

Vishwanath averages mammoth 41 in Tests but Tendulkar averages only a measly 55 in Tests ,

41 > 55

Hence proved .

After 2-3 Test Series , dont be surprised if Tendulkar gets pushed below Manjrekar and Kambli .

 

[Bhaijaan]

Anybody who puts Sehwag on any of their test lists is insane.

Looked far more comfortable against Johnson, Lee in 2007 and Pattinson, Siddle this time around in Australia compared to Dravid.
Sehwag's heck of a good player.

 

[eradicator]

Sehwag is not too bad , yes he has problems in overseas series but still you cannot ignore his 80 + S/R Hitting to big scores in the subcontinent . His record in Australia is very good too .

Without Sehwag India would not have enjoyed so much success against Pakistan in the last decade , Dravid & Tendu were of not much effect before Sehwag emerged on the scene and made the real difference .

 

[Romali_rotti]

Paaji , u forgot vvs .

Yeah I know but Laxman didnt have as much impact if the opposition wasnt Aus..

 

[Bhaijaan]

Sehwag is not too bad , yes he has problems in overseas series but still you cannot ignore his 80 + S/R Hitting to big scores in the subcontinent . His record in Australia is very good too .

Without Sehwag India would not have enjoyed so much success against Pakistan in the last decade , Dravid & Tendu were of not much effect before Sehwag emerged on the scene and made the real difference .

That is true and it's not like he's being crowned the king. It's a top 10 list and he richly deserves to be in the middle of it because a few other players in there weren't all that outside India either. The four stand out performers are Gavaskar, SRT, Dravid and Amarnath. Rest all average between 30-45 outside home. No big deal. The manner in which Sehwag has been scoring those runs gives him a good lead.

 

[Bhaijaan]

A little piece of stat from Cricinfo statsguru -

Top averaging Indian batsmen overseas ( min 1000 test runs)

Top averaging Indian batsmen at Home ( min 1000 test runs)

 

[Asiacup2012]

Indias current playing XI is top 10 batsmen of all time!

 

[Sledger]

I think Dhoni is the best ODI cricketer India have produced, I'm surprised not more people have him at the top spot for that format.

 

[Bhaijaan]

^ Arguably Sledge. But we would like him to carry on with it and keep the chase alive. Like i said, both him and Kohli are future contenders for #1 but to put MSD there already will do him no favour. There is 4-5 years of Cricket still left in him, why hurry?

I'd like to see him climb up the test charts as well. Very disappointed so far.

 

[Bhaijaan]

ODI charts


Top averaging Indian batsmen (overall)

Top averaging Indian batsmen overseas

Top averaging Indian batsmen in India

Top averaging Indian batsmen in tournament finals

Some stunning numbers for MSD indeed, may he keep doing the good work.






Top averaging Indian batsmen in The World Cups

Top averaging Indian batsmen in ICC tourneys

​

Not so great from MSD in ICC tourneys, he has been the Inzamam Ul Haq as far as ICC campaigns are concerned with only one memorable knockout inning. UV on the other hand has been gold in those matches.

 

[King Cobra]

Dhonis Not Outs

 

[Bhaijaan]

Not outs are cool, sign of match winners.

 

[King Cobra]

Misbah has 20 not outs too from 84 innings . Class player .

 

[Bhaijaan]

^ Misbah's a joke compared to MSD. There is SR difference of nearly 20 runs per 100 ball.

 

[BD-fan]

Test:
1. Sachin
2. Gavaskar
3. Dravid
4. Shewag
5. Azharuddin
6. Amarnath
7. Dillip Vegsarkar
8. Vishonath
9. Laxman
10. Ganguly

ODIs
Sachin
Shewag
Srikanth
Saurav
Singh (UV)
Singh (Dhoni)
Shastri
Sahul Dravid
Sautam Ghambir

 

[Desi]

^ Misbah's a joke compared to MSD.

nobody in their right mind would ever refute this. joke is such an understatement too.

 

[wizard_85]

Sachin
Dravid
Gavaskar
Viru
Amarnath
VVS Laxman
Pataudi
Hazare
Ganguly

Odi's
Sachin
Dhoni
Yuvi
Ganguly
Viru
Dravid
srikanth
gambhir
Sidhu
amarnath

 

[Bhaijaan]

The funny thing that he is actually 'good' but MSD is an ATG in one format.

 

[in_cutter]

Dravid
Sehwag
Tendu
Gavaskar
Azharuddin
Ganguly
Laxman

...don't know who else...

 

[Bullet Drive]

Dhoni the top ODI batsmen for me.

 

[MVP26]

Yuvi is their best odi bat.

 

[Bhaijaan]

^ I'd call him our best T20 batsman and #3 in ODIs

 

[qaiser]

Who cares about Indian batsmen

 

[Saqs]

I can't be bothered to find 10:

Pretty much what I was going to post.

Top 10? Asking a bit too much isn't it?!


Tests:

1. Dravid
2. Sachin
3. Sunil

ODIs:

1. Sachin
2. Sauruv
3. Dhoni

 

[kerala porotta]

LOI

1.Tendu
2.sehwag
3.ganguly
4.y.singh
5.k.srikanth
6.Robin SINGH
7.msd
8.k.dev

 

[insaaniyat]

Best test batsmen
1. Dravid
2. Gavasker
3. Vishvnath
4. Sehwag
5. Vijay Manjrikar
6. MAK Pataudi
7. Ganguly
8. Kohli
9. Laxman
10. Tendulker

 

[Bhaijaan]

Kohli on that list already?

Wow.

Dont get me wrong, Kohli is a very good batsman, but why would you rate him high when majority of his centuries is in SubCont. I repeat Majority, not ALL CENTURIES.

And he played another stunner, certainly right up there now.

 

[PAQS43]

Yuvraj singh
virender sehwag
virat kohli
gautam gambhir
mohd azharudin
rahul dravid
saurav ganguly
rohit sharma (yes he deserves the mention)
ms dhoni(just for power )
patuadi

 

[Bhaijaan]

Top 10 ODI batsmen-

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. MS Dhoni
3. Yuvraj Singh
4. Virender Sehwag
5. Saurav Ganguly
6. Gautum Gambhir
7. Rahul Dravid
8. Virat Kohli
9. Mohd Azharuddin
10. Ajay Jadeja




Top 10 batsmen regardless of format-

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Sunil Gavaskar
3. Virender Sehwag
4. Rahul Dravid
5. Saurav Ganguly
6. Mohd Azharuddin
7. Mohinder Amarnath
8. VVS Laxman
9. Gautum Gambhir
10. Gundappa Viswanath

Gambhir's fallen off the track.

 

[spaceshot]

^ Sirf is baat ke liye thread bump?

 

[Varun]

Tests

#1 Gavaskar
#2 Dravid
#3 Tendulkar
#4 Laxman
#5 Ganguly
#6 Viswanath
#7 Sehwag
#8 Hazare
#9 Amarnath
#10 Azharuddin

ODIs

#1 Tendulkar
#2 Dhoni
#3 Kohli
#4 Ganguly
#5 Yuvraj
#6 Gambhir
#7 Raina
#8 Dravid
#9 Sehwag
#10 Sidhu

Heck, it was harder to make up these couple of lists than I thought going into them.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Raina already above Dravid, Sehwag?

 

[Varun]

Raina already above Dravid, Sehwag?

Easily. Sehwag was an ODI underachiever aside from those few games in New Zealand at the start of his career, and LoIs weren't Dravid's cup of tea either. It's flipped the other way around for Raina, he loves batting in 50-over cricket, and has won us a couple of World Cup knockout encounters with the blade in the process.

 

[Madplayer]

Mohinder amarnath at 4 and 7? He shouldn't be in the top 10 even )

 

[Varun]

Mohinder amarnath at 4 and 7? He shouldn't be in the top 10 even )

Why not? Test average of 42 with eleven hundreds, that climbs to 54 in the backyard of the greatest team of his era, the West Indies. Only 30 at home, funnily enough. 55 in Australia, and 57 in Pakistan.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/26225.html?class=1;template=results;type=batting

 

[Madplayer]

Why not? Test average of 42 with eleven hundreds, that climbs to 54 in the backyard of the greatest team of his era, the West Indies. Only 30 at home, funnily enough. 55 in Australia, and 57 in Pakistan.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/26225.html?class=1;template=results;type=batting

Ok How is better than, lets say, vvs laxman in tests?

 

[Varun]

Ok How is better than, lets say, vvs laxman in tests?

Right, I'll let freelance speak for himself, I've rated him far below Laxman and the current generation.

Even my ODI side is heavily biased to ward the newer guys, aside from Sidhu.

 

[Scrolln]

Surprised to see so many people rate Dravid above Tendulkar.

Barring a couple of good series here and there, in tests Dravid was a walking wicket in SA and Aus.
Was also a decent ODI bat at best.

Anyhoo,

1 - Sachin Tendulkar
2 - Sunil Gavaskar
3 - Rahul Dravid
4 - Virender Sehwag
5 - VVS Laxman

MS Dhoni would juuust make it mainly due to his ODI exploits.

India have produced other superb batsmen like Amarnath, Vishwanath, Azharuddin, Ganguly etc. but none of them deserve to be called 'greats' in my humble opinion.

EDIT - Vijay Hazare's stats look quite good though!

 

[Robert]

Top 10 Test batsmen -

1. Gavaskar
2. Dravid
3. Tendulkar
4. Azhar
5. Sehwag
6. Vengsarkar
7. Amarnath
8. Laxman
9. Hazare
10. Viswanath

 

[cricketfanfirst]

List for Tests:

Tendulkar
Gavaskar
Dravid
Hazare
Amarnath
Viswanath
Sehwag
Laxman
Azhar
Vengsarkar

List for ODIs:

Tendulkar
Dhoni
Ganguly
Yuvraj
Kohli
Sehwag
Dravid
Azhar
Sidhu
Raina

 

[Gunther]

I was quite scared of Sehwag and Dravid for different reasons.

Sehwag
Dravid
Gavaskar
Azharudding
Tendulkar
Ganguly

Laxman was a sitting duck against any bowler that bowled good-fullish lengths and he did not have a great record against England.

 

[Gunther]

Sehwag is vastly underrated imo. With fairly attritional batsmen and bowlers, it was important for India to have someone like Sehwag who could scare the bejesus outta the opposition. Their percentage of home wins would have been far lower without him.

 

[W63L35]

Test batsmen -

1. Sunil Gavaskar 1. Rahul Dravid
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Mohd. Azharuddin
5. Gundappa Viswanath
6. Mohinder Amarnath


Can't decide between Dravid and Gavaskar! If you just look at the batting point of view, Gavaskar is #1 but if you look add add attitude and temperament, then Dravid edges ahead.

 

[Buffet]

Sehwag is vastly underrated imo. With fairly attritional batsmen and bowlers, it was important for India to have someone like Sehwag who could scare the bejesus outta the opposition. Their percentage of home wins would have been far lower without him.

I think many fans rate players based on recent performances otherwise Sehwag is in surely class of his own. Cricket has been played for so long, how many test openers have dominated the way he did? He simply allowed not so good bowling unit plenty of extra time by scoring so quickly and heavily in many matches.

80+ SR as an opener with 50 odd average for 100+ test match. Simply an unmatched performance. He is surely underrated by many due to his last few series.

 

[vicky_iisc]

Test :
1. Tendulkar
2. Gavaskar
3. Hazare
4. Laxman
5. Dravid
6. Viswanath
7. Sehwag
8. Amarnath
9. Ganguly
10. Azhar.

ODIs:
1. Tendulkar
2. Ganguly
3. Dhoni
4. Yuvraj
5. Kapil Dev
6. Sehwag
7. Dravid
8. Kohli
9. Azhar
10. Amarnath

 

[vicky_iisc]

Test batsmen -

1. Sunil Gavaskar 1. Rahul Dravid
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Mohd. Azharuddin
5. Gundappa Viswanath
6. Mohinder Amarnath


Can't decide between Dravid and Gavaskar! If you just look at the batting point of view, Gavaskar is #1 but if you look add add attitude and temperament, then Dravid edges ahead.

How did you compare Dravid and Gavaskar's attitude and temperament ? How did you arrive at Dravid had more of them ?

 

[PakPrince]

it should be top 5 batsmen lol

i dont know most indian batsmen barring gavaskar from pre 90's and im pretty sure its the case here on pp in general

 

[Bhaijaan]

Ok How is better than, lets say, vvs laxman in tests?

Right, I'll let freelance speak for himself, I've rated him far below Laxman and the current generation.

Was in my opinion the second best Indian batsman in Gavaskar's era, definitely better than Vangasarkar and Gundappa, guy was real hardcore fighter. He turned it on when you least expected it, against the toughest challenges.

 

[vicky_iisc]

I will rate Laxman and Dravid equal.. Dravid had wider performance opposition, Laxman had more quality performance against Aus and to some extent SA.. away from home.. if asked to choose one b/w the two, I will pick Laxman.

 

[Sandeep]

Odis

1. Ganguly
2. Dhoni
3. Yuvraj
4. Kohli
5. Gambhir
6. Sewag
7. Sachin
8. Azharuddin
9. Raina
10. Mohammed Kaif

No doubt you are a Bangladesh fan

 

[Sandeep]

Sachin... *daylight*.....


Dravid
Vishwanath
Gavaskar
Vinoo Mankad
Vijay Hazare
Pataudi
Laxman
Amarnath
Virender Sehwag

Special mentions : Azharuddin, Vengsarkar, Srikanth, Ganguly, Dhoni (still has time)

 

[LethalSami]

fall in quality is too much after Top 5...

Top 5 would make a better thread

+ i don't rate Azharuddin at all