Chanderpaul: Is he the best Guyanese batsman ever?

[quote author=Kwami link=topic=86184.msg539895#msg539895 date=1387567946]
Rev you forgot bout  Basil Butcher
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[size=14pt]I surely did--Butcher was one on my favorite players--used to love following him during Shell Shield.[/size]

kanhai
shiv
kali
Lloyd
freddo
butcher

Rev

Devendra Bishoo and Veerasammy Permaul

Mark Harper and Roger Harper .

dont think Mark got a TEST cap  :-\

[size=14pt] “I take Kanhai as the high peak of West Indian cricketing development. West Indian cricketing had reached such a stage, that a fine cricketer could be adventuresome, and Kanhai was adventuresome…People felt that it was more than a mere description of how he batted; it was something characteristic of us as cricketers. They felt that it was not only a cricketing question, because Kanhai was an East Indian, and East Indians were still somewhat looked down upon by other people in the Caribbean. But I stated that here was a cricketer who was doing things that nobody else was doing, and I was very pleased when he became the captain of the West Indies side.” - CLR James


“Rohan Kanhai is quite simply the greatest batsman I have ever seen. What does one write about one's hero, one's idol, one for whom there is so much admiration? To say that he is the greatest batsman I have ever seen so far is to put it mildly. A controversial statement perhaps, considering that there have been so many outstanding batsmen, and some great batsmen that I have played with and against. But, having seen them all, there is no doubt in my mind that Rohan Kanhai was quite simply the best of them all. Sir Gary Sobers came quite close to being the best batsman, but he was the greatest cricketer ever, and could do just about anything. But as a batsman, I thought Rohan Kanhai was just a little bit better." - Sunil Gavaskar

Kanhai also coached Lara for a number of years. Alot of him rubbed off on Lara.

I would rank Guyanese batsmen like this:

Kanhai
Shiv
Kalicharan
Clive Lloyd
Sarwan
Harper
Hooper

Hooper would give you the sexiest 30 runs ever. Nobody hit more graceful lofty forward drives or hit sixes so, seemingly, effortlessly. A big wasted talent. Sarwan I thought would develop into a great, but his career nosedived. Very sad. [/size]

Kanhai for me too. I mean I can't say how much I respect Shiv's contributions, but surely the aesthetics has to weigh in to some degree. It does for me anyway.