The Alternate Of Classic

Sunny the batting Maestro

India has produced many cricketers
Yes great bowlers ,all rounders and batsmen
Yes also great captains and fielders
But Sunny stands highest among all
Whether it would Sachin, Dravid, Sehwag or Kapil
Yes critics point of he is arguably the greatest batsman
He is considered as the technician of batting
He is esteemed highly by the cricket fraternity
He has preferred by many cricketers
Yes by critics ,experts, analytics and commentators
Yes in the all time great eleven
He faced off one of the most fiery attack
Yes with ease,patience and courage
Yes without wearing helmet
Whether some critics say about him
Yes has not perform well against quickies
Yes of the West Indies quandral
Also against Lily and Thompson
Yes against John Snow and Price
But they only observe the score
They do not see his great skill
And how many fast deliveries he has faced
How much time he stayed on crease
And ease the situation by depreciate the new ball
Yes for the next down batsmen
We know beginning half an hour is so crucial
Yes very critical and testing
He played 125 Test matches
Yes as an opener is really testing
And he proved his great calibre all the way
He preferred heavyweight cricket
Where the batsman is tested
He makes 34 hundreds in his Test career
And crossed milestone of 10 thousand runs
Wow by keeping 51. 12 run average
And being the opener it is sparkling
Why because the opening batsmen of his time couldn’t finish
Yes their career by keeping such average
To start innings against fresh and fiery bowlers
Yes always so tougher
And also the nature of the wicket is unknown
At the beginning for 30 minutes the pitch is
Yes so challenging to face the bowlers
Sunny has proven his tempo
Yes against all quality bowlers
Yes he remains failure against them
As some statisticians evaluate
But those bowlers always lure
And thirst with the extra effort
Yes to get Gavaskar out

And what a criteria to measure great innings
Yes by the Wisden or Bible of cricket
Yes if you score double century
In the Test innings fights single handedly
And turns herculean task into ease
But due to others batsmen’s blunders
Ah team defeats by a slender margin
And then your innings counts
But not in the all time greatest five
If see such example in this concerned
Yes that VVS Laxman’s innings of 287
Yes is considered as the greatest
But Rahul Dravid’s 180 in the same Test isn’t rest
Yes in 20 bestest Test innings
Sunny as well as Laxman and Rahul play
Yes in the adverse and tougher situations
Sunny ‘s last innings was also an epic innings
Yes against cracking ,bouncy and uncertain pitch
And against solid bowling line up of Pak
Though he was hunted of nervous ninety
And needs to mind the whole situations
Laxman plays on his home soil while Sunny at abroad
And Glane Mecgrath was only the ranked speedster
And the natural facts clearly say
Yes on the subcontinent particularly
Yes that in humidity or heat
Ah so tough to bowl fast in such stinginess
And to bowl in long spell is tougher
Yes particularly for the white bowlers
That’s why the speedsters aren’t success here in India
And spinners like Shane Warne and M Murlidharan
Yes so ordinary performer and easily playable
Because India is the country of highly skilled spinners
So Warne -Murali not as stingy and fatal in India like Indian spinners
So the norms are use d to measure
Yes for the greatest innings need to revive
One other thing in Gavaskar’s batting concerned
Yeah he never wore helmet like Sachin,Rahul, Sehwag ,Laxman
If they are real technicians of batting
Yes then they had to refute the idea
And the batsmen of post 90s
Wow enjoy all shields and appartauses
And also covered pitches and batting prone
And lucky not got the high quality bowlers
After 90s only Glan Mecgrath is the greatest and others ordinary
Ambrose ,Wals , Waqar ,
Akram ,Donald are at their Twilight career Shane Warne, Muralidharan are tougher but only for overseas batsmen
We know in 70s to 80s very less tripple centuries made
Even the lesser double centuries
Viv Richard ,Greg Chappal ,J Miandad ,G Turner ,J Boycott never faced their biggies
Yes due have the bowlers their own side
While India hasn’t such a biggy
Kapil Dev yes but not dangerous and fiery
So Gavaskar gets high marks in ranking
And greater them all as opener
And the umpiring in that era
Ah so poor ,bais and questionable
We know infamous episode
Yes Lily-Gavasker discord
So India has proud to have Sunny
His stature is higher than Sachin
Yes to have critics’ opinions and study
If Sunny Gavaskar would play matches like today
Then he too would cross 100s of hundred
But alas at that period scarcely one or two series were played in a year
He had over 56 batting average up to 65 Tests as an opener
That is second highest after great L Hutton
And those who have played as the openers
L Hutton had over 58 average
But he hasn’t faced greatest bowlers like Sunny’s era
So Sunny must be given higher rank
Yes as not only an opener but batsman also
He remained part of a poor team
Yes that couldn’t out opposition two time
And also not score three hundred plus
So he had to only for survival or save
But when he found good batsmen
Yes like Mohinder ,Dilip Vengserkar ,Yashpal,Shree Kanth Ravi Shashtri,Patil
Then he played freely and made fastest hundred the then from India
And against good quality attack
The West Indian fast bowlers have
Yes great stamina to bowl
Yes in the hot Indian conditions
So no question of nature or heat
Yes ultimately I do say
All have their own stand
But as per my close look Sunny is greatest.
.NK Sevak “Sanatan “