Batsmen and All-rounders

Ian Botham , batting, huge six at Headingley, 1981, from his most famous innings, botham.mpg, 1.1MB , plus typical bowling success, botham2.mpg, 1.5MB

Geoff Boycott , never a man of extravagant shots, but superb concentration, boycott.mpg, 4.5MB

Donald Bradman , the master batsman and record breaker, bradman.mpg, 2.7MB

Greg Chappell , a great back foot player, gregchappell, 1.0MB

Sunil Gavaskar , the tiny master, with impeccable concentration and great timing, gavaskar1.mpg, 1.3MB

Graham Gooch , a powerful and confident hitter, gooch.mpg, 1.3MB

David Gower , a stylish left-hander and intelligent player, gower.mpg, 1.5MB

Gordon Greenidge , batting, 1976, a cricket ball has never been hit so hard, greenidge.mpg, 1.2MB

Richard Hadlee , bowling, early eighties, incredible accuracy, hadlee.mpg, 1.1MB

Imran Khan , bowling, 1987, very fast even though this was near the end of his career, imran1.mpg 2.2MB , imran2.mpg, 1.4MB
Also batting, very watchful and a great player of spin, imran3.mpg, 1.1MB , and imran4.mpg, 1.5MB .

Inzamam-ul-Haq , a moody Pakistani batsman of great talent, inzamam.mpg, 1.4MB

Javed Miandad , tremendously innovative at the crease, always ducking and diving and trying something new, javed.mpg, 560K

Kapil Dev , a surprisingly powerful Indian all-rounder, here shown batting, kapildev.mpg, 450K

Brian Lara , a precocious talent that was never fully realised, lara.mpg, 1.4MB

Clive Lloyd , batting, mid seventies, a huge bat and perfect timing, clivelloyd.mpg, 0.7MB

Majid Khan , batting, mid seventies, fearless strokemaking, majid.mpg, 1.8MB

Graeme Pollock , superb timing that was never seen much in Test circles, due to his South African origin, graemepollock.mpg, 1.8MB

Mike Procter , 'bowls at 100mph from mid-off off the wrong foot'(!), procter.mpg, 0.8MB

Barry Richards , another South African, who we thankfully saw quite a bit of over here in County Cricket, with every stroke in the book and who hit the ball surprisingly hard, barryrichards2.mpg, 2.2MB and barryrichards3.mpg, 0.8MB

Viv Richards , batting, late seventies, classic and improvised shots, viv0.mpg, 1MB , viv1.mpg, 0.9MB , viv2.mpg, 0.9MB , richards4.mpg, 2.0MB

Gary Sobers , batting, the best all-rounder of all time? sobers.mpg, 1.8MB

Glenn Turner , a New Zealand batsman of great patience and classical style, turner1.mpg, 3.0MB and turner2.mpg, 1.9MB

Mark Waugh , a stylish Australian, markwaugh.mpg, 1.6MB

Zaheer Abbas , stylish Pakistani from the seventies, zaheer.mpg, 1.1MB