Chris Gayle - Slugger - 175 not out
17 sixes and 13 fours. Gayle does not use his feet, at all. Gayle reaches for the
deliveries. He slugs wherever he chooses. Gayle does not attempt the hook shot.
Gayle has not mastered and/or displayed the art or skill of batsmanship. - Hell No.
I watched Sobers hit sixes with
ease in smooth flow. Those three Guyanese left handed batsmen, Clive Lloyd, Roy
Fredericks and Alvin Kallicharran were happy hookers. They were all armed with
a wide variety of pulsating strokes. Their cover and sugar drives off either
foot were eye candy. I don't see that anymore. I tried to watch Gayle and Sehwag.
I can't they are tough to appease my cricketing mind. They bat like
tail-enders; like fast bowlers of the past. I prefer to fret about Lance Gibbs'
failure to handle the bat. I find it difficult to accept Lillee and Thomson
bowled bouncers at Gibbs in 1975/1976 ....What a waste of energy, to say the
least...
What's with the all capital
letters? Gayle and Sehwag and all those baseball hitters are sorry sights to
traditional cricket lovers. I don't expect to witness Mr. October (Reggie
Jackson), or Darryl Strawberry or Dwight "Doc" Gooden or Ricky
Henderson in
a cricket matches. Small wonder Chanderpaul is considered the top batsman in
test match cricket. The current cricketers are mediocre. West Indies isn’t
going to dominate the cricketing world for 15 days or 15 months with the
products I have witnessed. There will not be a repeat of the 15 years'
dominance of the cricketing world as under the captaincies of Clive Lloyd and Vivian
Richards. Forget about that - those were cricketers.
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