Jacques Kallis or Rahul Dravid?

[RoboRocks]

I'm finding it difficult to find which is better. Dravid can bat a very long time and score a double hundred and although Kallis hasn't quite scored a double hundred, he is a better player technically. I don't think one stands out to be honest and I can't really say which one I would rather have.

 

[Dr. Pepper]

Basically they are both great players and having either of them in your team would be great. With Kallis you also have the option of a bowler so that is a big advantage.

 

[Cricketman]

I'm finding it difficult to find which is better. Dravid can bat a very long time and score a double hundred and although Kallis hasn't quite scored a double hundred, he is a better player technically. I don't think one stands out to be honest and I can't really say which one I would rather have.

Kallis is better technically then DRAVID?

Dravid is probably the most technically sound batsman in the game!

 

[evertonfan]

Rahul Dravid is genuinely one of my favourite players of all time. Kallis on the other hand i've just never taken shine too. He's obviously a great batsman, but he's just awful to watch. Dravid is just so elegant with every shot he plays and he's a lovely bloke off the field as well. In Flintoff's book he mentions about how he asked Dravid for a bit of batting advice during England's tour in 2002 and that Dravid spent a good half an hour talking to him about batting. Top bloke.

 

[usy]

The question is did flintoff really listen to Dravid carefully, ;p, or he was drunk while he was.

 

[sohum]

Dravid had one bad series against Australia, seriously shocking that everyone is writing him off after that.

Everyone's looking for a reason to hate him seeing that he has gotten it done against about every opposition.

I also find it a little baffling and hypocritical that the same people who ridicule Twenty20 cricket for being so batsman-friendly and over-attacking dislike Dravid, who plays traditional test cricket.

sohummisra added 1 Minutes and 25 Seconds later...

I'm finding it difficult to find which is better. Dravid can bat a very long time and score a double hundred and although Kallis hasn't quite scored a double hundred, he is a better player technically. I don't think one stands out to be honest and I can't really say which one I would rather have.

Dravid authored the "textbook"!

 

[RoboRocks]

Kallis is better technically then DRAVID?

Dravid is probably the most technically sound batsman in the game!

Dravid authored the "textbook"!

I'm not saying that Dravid isn't technically sound. I think it's close on technique wise but I would think that Kallis would just beat Dravid.

I still can't choose between the two of them unless we compare them as cricketers then it would be Kallis, who was a brilliant all rounder in the 1990's.

 

[sohum]

I'm not saying that Dravid isn't technically sound. I think it's close on technique wise but I would think that Kallis would just beat Dravid.

I know you're not saying that, but what I am saying is Dravid has been the most technically cricketer in the last decade-and-a-half. There is almost no contest there.

 

[aussie_ben91]

Evertonfan, your opinion on Kallis is quite similar to what Dravid basically is.

Kallis actually looks like a man unlike Dravid who looks like a skinny scared kid, who is too afraid to speak.

I'd rather watch Kallis bat because his got much more class while Dravid is more then less a blocker.

 

[sohum]

Kallis actually looks like a man unlike Dravid who looks like a skinny scared kid, who is too afraid to speak.

Last I checked, physical appearance had nothing to do with how good a batsman you were.

I'd rather watch Kallis bat because his got much more class while Dravid is more then less a blocker.

It's hard to score 5 double centuries being "more then less a blocker". Not to mention that Dravid's strike rate is 41.94 compared to Kallis' 43.9. This proves, beyond any reasonable doubt, that you are judging the players based off 1-2 series.

 

[Dr. Pepper]

Just because Dravid is good at staying in for a long period of time doesn't mean he just blocks every shot that comes to him. With the scores he's reached, he obviously does something other than that. Dravid is a class player who is wrongly called such things as "a blocker".

 

[evertonfan]

Brett Lee's scrawny. I don't see you questioning his cricketing skills.

 

[Cricketman]

Evertonfan, your opinion on Kallis is quite similar to what Dravid basically is.

Kallis actually looks like a man unlike Dravid who looks like a skinny scared kid, who is too afraid to speak.

I'd rather watch Kallis bat because his got much more class while Dravid is more then less a blocker.

Kallis is practically overweight. So if that looks 'manly', I doubt many athletes want to look like that.

Dravid a blocker? I don't think you can average in the high 50's in test cricket by just defending.

 

[aditya123]

Blocker or not, Rahul dravid has helped script one of India`s best test wins in recent times.
The 181 against Australia at Kolkata in 2001 and the 233 at Adelaide in 2003 helped India win matches which looked hopeless at one stage.
In his 120 odd at Headingley on a very green track , he played out the most difficult period of the test match which Tendulkar and Ganguly later capitalized on and enabled India script yet another famous overseas win and draw the series.

Even when he was woefully out of touch in the recent test series in Australia, he hung in there and scored a vital 93 in the Perth test which we won.
Anyone who saw him bat on that minefield of a track at Jamaica in 2006 would vouch for him.
Lara said that those 2 half centuries(no one else scored a 50 in that game) were one of the best that he had ever seen, again helped India win the series in the Caribbean.

I don`t think a `scared kid` or a `blocker` can bail his side out of so many difficult situations.

I cannot remember any of Kallis`s innings of such an epic character as some of the Dravid knocks mentioned here.

Hence I`d go with Dravid in tests.

 

[usy]

on top of that Dravid’s strike rate in ODI’s is 71.22.