Ultimate England Cricketers for batting shots

[Liverpool Beachball]

Ultimate England Cricketers: Vote in the batting categories

For me:

Cover drive: Ian Bell obviously
Cut: Strauss
Defence: Trott
Pull: KP
Straight drive: Stokes
Innovation: Buttler
Power: Stokes

 

[mikemanc]

Ultimate England Cricketers: Vote in the batting categories

For me:

Cover drive: Ian Bell obviously
Cut: Strauss
Defence: Trott
Pull: KP
Straight drive: Stokes
Innovation: Buttler
Power: Stokes

Disagree on Buttler, I think he's followed where Morgan and Pietersen lead

 

[Liverpool Beachball]

Disagree on Buttler, I think he's followed where Morgan and Pietersen lead

Yeah I struggled to choose between KP and Buttler there. Went with Buttler as think he has the best range of unorthodox shots out but KP (and others like de villiers) definitely set the tone for the T20 era

 

[Helmerroids]

I’ll take a David Gower cover drive over Bell any day.

 

[Rip Van Fish]

I’ll take a David Gower cover drive over Bell any day.

Was just about to say the same mate

 

[Steak Pie]

Robin Smith isn't on the list of cutters, neither is Botham on the pull, I'm out.

 

[Dexter]

Cover drive: Vaughan
Cut: Chef
Defence: Chef
Pull: KP
Straight drive: KP
Innovation: Buttler
Power: Stokes
Pads: Trott

 

[Wolfey1964]

Cover drive: Vaughan
Cut: Chef
Defence: Chef
Pull: KP
Straight drive: KP
Innovation: Buttler
Power: Stokes
Pads: Trott

Are we classing the pull and the hook as the same shot

 

[NorthCountryBoy]

Leave - Jack Russell or Courtney Walsh

 

[SAFC2403]

Are we classing the pull and the hook as the same shot

Ponting was a better puller than KP by a country mile.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

bowled through the gate: J Bairstow

 

[Voice of fair play]

Disagree on Buttler, I think he's followed where Morgan and Pietersen lead

Don’t think Morgan or Pietersen, played the ramp shot, as much or as good or with as much consistency of success as Buttler does mind.

Robin Smith isn't on the list of cutters, neither is Botham on the pull, I'm out.

Robin smith brilliant cutter of fast bowling and like already said the cover drive has to be Gower.

 

[big les]

Tavare - Forward defence.

 

[The Red Telephone]

Reverse Sweep : Gatting.

 

[Parkside]

If you're an oldie like me you feel privileged to have witnessed
The Peter May on drive
And
The Tom Graveney cover drive.

 

[Wise Man Says]

Alec Stewart on the hook. Barbados 1994, a hundred in each innings and we won. Magic.

 

[WCC]

Cover drive: Ian Bell
Cut: Strauss
Defence: Colly
Pull: KP
Straight drive: Trescothick
Innovation: KP
Power: Stokes

 

[Eggman]

Leave - Jack Russell or Courtney Walsh

Courtney Walsh is an England cricketer ?

 

[mikemanc]

Don’t think Morgan or Pietersen, played the ramp shot, as much or as good or with as much consistency of success as Buttler does mind.


Robin smith brilliant cutter of fast bowling and like already said the cover drive has to be Gower.

I agree they don't but Buttler wasn't the first player to play the ramp. I don't remember anyone switch hitting before KP or playing shots like this before Morgan:

No doubt Buttler is a fantastic executioner but I just feel that he's following the true innovators in KP and Morgan as nobody played they way they did for England before

 

[leecoo]

Off drive - Vaughan
On drive - pietersen
Cut - Robin Smith
Pull/hook - Stewart
Cover drive - bell
Back foot drive - root
Forward defence - cook
Nurdle to leg side - thorpe
Sweep - stokes