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Seeing Duj in the headlines, I thought of this topic. List your favourite elegant batsman that you've seen. (Note -- This is not your favorite batsman, or the best batsman, or best batting genius, or most eye-catching)

I'll start with a few from "recent" years gone by.
These batsmen were silky smooth as butter, pure languid artistry.
Carl Hooper
Jeffrey Dujon
VVS Laxman

Note: I do not list Lara here, as I consider him a batting genius, who was a combination of flair, swash-buckle, and elegance. (See cover drive.)

In reply to Trinidave

Mark Waugh
Hooper
Damian Martyn
Amla
VVS

In reply to Trinidave

1. L G Rowe
2. Zaheer Abbas
3. David Gower
4. Kevin Douglas Walters

Of course Rowe. D.I. Gower was very elegant too.

Marlon Samuels has his moments too btw.

Azharuddin
VVS
Hoops
Gower
Abbas

Add Kumar Sangakarra and Mahela Jayawardene to the list

In reply to Runs

So as a young fella, very very young fella, TriniD went to a Test Match in QPO, and India was under some serious pressure, and the Indian batsmen were struggling to get the ball away.

Azharuddin came intuh de wicket, and the ball just FLOWED from his bat, like oil. He ONLY scored 20-something, but it just stood out. Smooth.


BTW . Dilip Vengsarker was another smooth as butter batsman.

Can TriniD add. As much as TriniD likes T20, and TriniD likes dat format, it could probably spell de end of de elegant batsman.

Majid Khan

In reply to Narper

Yup.

In reply to Trinidave

Rohit Sharma is the most elegant T20 batsman I have seen

Sanga a close 2nd

Lawrence George Rowe
Majid Khan
David Gower
Greg Chappell

In reply to Narper

These batsmen were still born into a world without T20.

TriniD's concern is about de T20-illennials.

Rowe
Majid Khan
Carl Hooper
Faoud Bacchus

In reply to Trinidave

Agreed with Vengsarkar saw him made a wonderful hundred at Bourda.

Carl Hooper
Aravinda Da Silva

Timur Mohammed

In reply to cricketmygame

Amla elegant?

Now I heard it all.

In reply to TanteMerle

Yes he is...have you seen him bat?

Babulal

Ian Redpath

Keith Raymond Stackpole

Doug Walters

Some a de names allyuh puttin up here aint elegant. Rowe was super elegant for sure,Abbas,Gower, Sobers when he wanted to be, Mathis wasnt bad either, so too Timur. Some say Greg C was easy on the eyes. But Rowe it is for me on both sides of the pitch not one sided like some espicially the caress square of the leg side, the beautiful caressing cover drive, and the most delicate of late cuts 2 inches from the keepers gloves.

Dujon and Bacchus?

Some may disagree but I think Larry Gomes was an elegant batsman, good timer of the ball, fluent, played the ball on the ground.

Robin Smith
Brian Lara
Michael Slater
Mahela Jayawardene
Mark Waugh

Seymore Nurse
Lawerence Rowe
Carl Hooper

Everton Mattis
David Gower
Lawrence Rowe

In reply to Raggs

Lawrence Rowe
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Majid Khan
Dilip Vengsakar
Everton Mattis
Samuel Haye
Carl Hooper
Marlon Samuels

In reply to Trinidave

I'm a bit left field in what batsmen I find elegant - not bothering to name the ones who have been regurgitated already, and naming players I have watched in recent times:

Sangakkara
Williamson
Damien Martyn
Mark Waugh
VVS
Vaughan

Also, out of WI batsmen I've watched in recent times, I find Jase Holder the most pleasing on the eye.

BCL
ZAbbas
Sanga
Law Rowe
VVS LaXman

LG
Gower
Greg Chappell
Azharuddin
Salim Malik
VVS
Hoops

I make a distinction between pretty and elegant. For example Kalli pretty LG elegant. Vishy pretty Azharuddin elegant. BCL pretty Hoops Most Helegant

Wasim Jaffer

VVS
Azharuddin
Salim Malik
Mark Waugh
D.I.Gower

I think this requires grouping by era

Steven Smith

In reply to Trinidave

Carl "sweet like sugar" Hooper.

Lawrence Rowe
Everton Mattis
Carl Hooper

Pollard.....for his elegance when swinging for cowcorner

Courtney Walsh .....for his elegant leave alone to a ball an inch outside off stump

Richard Staple

In reply to CricketLuva4

Forgot about Vaughan. Yes.

In reply to Runs

Think Gomes driving through the covers was elegant. So he had his elegant moments.

Renford Pinnock

Aneil Rajah. Elegant batsman, brilliant fielder. Averaged only around 30. Graduate that today's dung heap, that would be about 40. LOL Still elegant though.