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Naresh Kumar Sevak (NK Sanatan)
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The Lefties Greats In Right Way !

The Greatest Left Handed Batsman Of The World Test Cricket
In the game cricket the batsman can play with two modes tha is right and left. And right handed batting is common fact in the game because most of the batsmen become right handed inherently but the left hand is rare in cricket or whether in writing or other game like boxing the left hook or punch, in football left kick, in badminton , tennis , volleyball the left handed volley and smash. The left hander is like O negative blood group and has extraordinary place in his/ her field. In the game of cricket the left handed bowler and batsman are considered unique to different style and class. And it has difficult to manage or control it. Yeah if talk about the bowlers and the batsmen there are very less number in the field of cricket. Under my discourse there are 30 to 40 batsmen have born in cricket as the left handed batsman and it shows that to be left hander in cricket is not a common fact.In this annaxure of lefties batters if measure their greatness then we have to go to the figures . Yeah the figure is the first factor to evaluate any batsman’s greatness . And the class is the abstract noun that can be seen and felt only not speak or reveal on the paper or figures. Sometimes the figures speak true sometimes not. But the figures are the first norms to evaluate any one’s greatness. So I put 40 plus average mark at least to discuss. And if I have 45 plus batting average mark then many ones would be ousted from the race or vying. First of all I do mention all the left hander batsmen. Yeah with the era wise count Claim Hill was the first renown left handed batsman. Then comes a big name Arther Morris also from Australia and after them the names follow as David Hooks, G Wood ,G Yelliop, A Border , Mark Tylor , M Bewen ,M Hyden ,Mark Hussey,A Gilchrist from the land of Bradman. Then we attend the land of father England and very few batsmen’s name occurred out from this great land. Yeah J Edritch, David Gower , A Cook are only the name of this biological fact. From the West Indies G Soberse, R Fredricks, A Kalicharan , C Lyod, ,S Chandrapal, Ramnaresh Shravan , BC Lara, C Gayle , D Bravo.
From the land of Pakistan Saeed Anwer , Amir Sohel , from india only S Ganguly ,from Sri Lanka Sanat Jayasuriya and K Sangkara ,from New Zealand John F Reid, J Wight, S Flaming . From minnow Zimbabwe Andy Flower ,from Bangladesh Tamim Iqabal, from South Africa the giant G Pollock, G Kirsten. Thus all names tally scarcely stays only 35 . So first of all need to sort out the name on the figure and class base. C Hill is one of the biggies if talk about the class . Yeah his Test batting average is just 33 but in that era batting was not as easy as today’s cricket and achieved run average over 30 was phenomal and handsome. And this veteran’s batting average is 39.21 so no doubt he was unique and very much deserves the place in my discussion under great measurement. Yeah after this big name comes the name of A Morris in my claim to be considered under great 10 left handed batsmen. Then M Hyden, M Hussey, M Tylor . Then Gary Soberse,A Kalicharan ,R Fredricks and Brian Lara are in the higher ranked batsmen for vying discussion . Yeah then from Lanka S Jaysurya and K Sangkara are in the reasoning . From Zimbabwe A Flower is very much in the discussion. From Pakistan only S Anwar and From S Africa only G Pollock . From New Zealand no one due to less batting average under 45 but JF Reid despite short career due have average over 46 is in the list to sit on the hotseat. Thus the finalists are in the altar to chant hymn to be the greatest ones. Yes the list is–
1.C Hill.
2.A Morris

  1. A Border
  2. M Tylor
  3. M Hyden
  4. A Gilchrist
  5. J Eldritch
  6. D Gower
  7. A Cook
  8. G Sobersw
  9. R Fedricks
    12.S Chandrapal
  10. B Lara
  11. Sanat Jaysurya
  12. K Sanghkara
  13. JF Reid
  14. S Flamming
  15. J Wright

21.A Flower

  1. G Pollock
  2. G Smith
  3. G Kirsten
  4. S Anwar
  5. S Ganguly

Now 26 names are in the race for being evaluated as the greatest left handed batsmen.
In this list the figure and the class has been preferred. So
Grahem Pollock
Neil Harvey
Claim Hill
Arther Morris
M Hyden
K Sangkara
B Lara
A Kalicharan
R Fedricks
D Gower
S Anwar
Are short listed to enter in the final phase of discussion.
Among these greats l exclude S Anwar to have reasons without reason to conclude the tarnished or carved the idols by chanting cantos to be animated . Now rested 10 superior figures for measuring the bestest five.
Here i have to have the close look – yeah class and figures.
And i disringuish or classify the class ,cadre and figures to scale merit. Yes in the class and cadre concerned Claim Hill , Arther Morris, Neil Harvey , G Pollock and G Soberse rest unique . Indeed these are the ancient greats and can’t be tended any lesser in compare to the present and middle era greats. If talk about the batting average, total score , fifties and hundreds and overall batting performance yeah only G Pollock and G Soberse’s figures are ample. Yes both the batsmen have over 58 batting average. G Pollock’s cricket career didn’t spanned long due to apartheid curse and the world cricket missed the great game from the giant. Such as A Morris lost out his pick time due to World War 2nd. But on his present figures he is considered one of the best opening batsmen of all time.
Yes on the figures,class and cadre G Pollock and Soberse ranked 1st and 2nd. Here G Pollock is placed at the 1st rank because he was a genuine batsman. Yes G Soberse was the batting all-rounder whose batting figures are dominated. Now rest 3 slot for under 5 bestest . Yes in the next slots followed B Lara, C Hill and A Morris respectively . And Alvin
Kallicharan , David Gower ,K Sanghkara ,
Neil Harvey, M Hyden, are got rank 6 to 10.
And alas batsmen like M Hussey, A Gilchrist, A Border, D Warner ,R Fedricks, John Edritch , J F Reid , G Smith , G Kirsten, M Tylor are great but helpless to measure top 10 . As a cricketer, the fan, a critic and an expert of the game I fully respect their great game but you know in this streak and stint there are the compulsions and limitations and have sheer panick not to comprise. But yes for that by using the same rank we can put 5 or more batsmen at the 1st place. Yeah like

  1. G Pollock, G Soberse, C Hill, A Morris, B Lara , A Kalicharan
  2. David Gower, K Sangkara, A Border ,M Hyden, R Fedricks

3.M Hussey, A Border, A Cook , JF Reid , A Flower, Vinu Mankad

  1. S Anwar , A Ganguly, G Kirsten , M Taylor ,

5.D Warner, S Flamming
G Smith , A Gilchrist,

  1. S Chandrapal,
    . S Jaysurya, ,
  2. SC Gayle, J Wright ,
    G Yellop

8 David Hooks, G Wood

  1. A Sohel , Sadiq Mohammad ,
  2. M Bewan Ramnaresh Shravan
  3. Darren Bravo
    .L Klusner ,
  • In this way we can justify with these greats and could make sarisfied their fans.
    ♀ NK Sevak ” Sanatan”

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