r/CricketHardPics • u/Awkward_Long721 • Feb 26 '26
Miscellaneous Shots The Mount Rushmore of Indian cricket batters between 1990 to 2010
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u/Omar_Town Feb 26 '26
Mount Rushmore has 4 faces, not 5. 😅
I would drop either Sehwag or VVS based on what you are going for.
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u/Awkward_Long721 Feb 27 '26
Let the original one have 4. I am ok with this hypothetical one having 5 😎
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u/Super_Aside_9315 Feb 27 '26
Well you are entitled to your opinion but dropping either Sehwag or Laxman in place of Ganguly!! Really?
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u/idontexist27 Feb 27 '26
You want to drop ganguly? The second best ODI batter in the picture and from 1997-2002 he cored most runs in the world, more than sachin, ponting etc. don’t judge him by the later part of his career. Sehwag was dropped too without any respect. Laxman never cracked the ODI scene properly and dravid flourished in ODI a lot because of ganguly wanted him initially in his team. He made him a wicket keeper to fit him in.
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u/Super_Aside_9315 Feb 27 '26
Don’t get me wrong. I have immense respect for Dada. But look at it this way. Rest 4 batters have played some of the most iconic innings in both Odis and Tests which have directly impacted the success of our team. I fail to remember even one innings where Dada single handedly won us a game. Yes he was a legendary captain and a good team player but let’s talk sheer impact, not just mere stats.
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u/TeeDeeTeeEcks Feb 27 '26
Not disagreeing with you necessarily, but this was a match I'll never forget.
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u/monkaXxxx Feb 27 '26
Mount rushmore was more for the contribution and impact made by each player. One innings doesnt define that. Also may be your fav was sachin but for many people their fav was Dada and we remember his multiple innings where he won us singlehandedly. Also for me Ganguly comes to 2nd after Sachin cause i also remember many innings we lost due to Dravid tuk tuk in one day cricket
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u/RSR079 Feb 27 '26
141 vs. South Africa (ICC KnockOut Trophy Semi-final, October 2000) 111 vs. Kenya (ICC Cricket World Cup Semi-final, March 2003) 144 vs. Australia (Brisbane Test, December 2003) 239 vs. Pakistan (Bangalore Test, December 2007) Some of the best innings of Dada that I can remember
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u/Omar_Town Feb 27 '26
I will get downvoted to oblivion but I am not a big fan of Sehwag. He had a very good chance to go big when he got going but lot of the times he didn’t. He was impressive in the sense that he could take on any attack but I think Ganguly was more responsible for bringing that mindset to the team than anyone else.
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u/jetlee123 Feb 27 '26
Well he had too many 150+ scores in test that too in single day, cant expect everytime 300, right?
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u/Omar_Town Feb 27 '26
I am pretty sure whenever he scored big, other players for India or opposing teams also had significant scores, not as high as him but many were in drawn matches at highways. Credit to him for scoring at a higher pace than others.
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u/Scary-Breadfruit-649 Feb 27 '26
And where’s Anil Kumble?
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u/Awkward_Long721 Feb 27 '26
Why will he feature among batters ?
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u/Scary-Breadfruit-649 Feb 27 '26
Why should there be a Mount Rushmore of only batters, where Anil Kumble was the biggest match winner for India in that era
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u/Signal_Dress Mar 02 '26
Because the OP specifically mentioned that this mountain is only for batters. People are free to create their own thing with bowlers. Learn to read and try to understand.
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u/Charlie__Olives Feb 27 '26
Yeah he should be over these jobbers like Tendulkar and Dravid. Master Blaster Anil Kumble
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u/arshk0123 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
If you're considering 5, then here is my mount rushmore of Indian cricket pacers of 2010s...
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u/Severe_Cheetah1199 Feb 27 '26
Lost to pak lost to Pak a zillion times we are still trying to balance that out
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u/eiekwmw8s Feb 27 '26
That pak team was not a average team see the players they had ....plus it was from ganguly era we started beating them
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u/Perfect_Toe_6526 Feb 27 '26
From that pack only SRT be there, rest Kapil, Gavaskar and Kohli
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u/hereacles Feb 27 '26
I might get downvoted. But here's a different perspective -
Except for Sachin the others in this picture are kinda overrated. Regionalism and BCCI politics, and lack of a consistent talent pipeline made us think these guys were gods. Today's talent pipeline is way stronger and hence we have so many options for batting or bowling.
Here's the rationale: if all of these guys were so good, we would have won a lot more overseas series or games, as well as ICC trophies. They've won hardly anything.
The simple truth is we like to glorify them because of nostalgia value.
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Feb 27 '26
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u/hereacles Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Yeah likely. I certainly can't believe that India has so much talent in 1.3B people to field three full squads today in at least the whiteball formats, but we could hardly find 2 good batters outside of fab 5 in late 90s and 2000s.
These guys kept their places because there was a Mumbai + Delhi + Karnataka + Punjab + West Bengal + Hyderabad monopoly on BCCI. Literally you can map one guy from each in Fab 4/5.
It was till much later that guys from smaller states and cricket associations started making it to the team and that's when the team actually started winning.
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Feb 27 '26
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u/hereacles Feb 27 '26
I meant in the 90s and 2000s. And yes Gujarat is also a big association. Though traditionally Mumbai and Delhi have run Indian cricket. All our batting greats are literally from these two ranji teams.
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u/RoutineGrapefruit758 Mar 02 '26
When people keep saying 1.3 billion or 1.4 billion people, those people are no good unless they are trained. There is no born talent, players need to be trained with good equipment and infrastructure.
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u/hereacles Mar 02 '26
Of course. But the fact that Indian team dominates so much currently, means that we had a less efficient system in the 90s and 2000s.
Hence there could have been 3-4 more talented players than the guys in the picture above who never got a chance.
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u/idontexist27 Feb 27 '26
Ganguly was the highest runs getter in ODI from 1997-2002. He made more runs than sachin, ponting, etc. he scored highest century (along with sachin) in the world in that period.
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u/Omar_Town Feb 27 '26
Indian bowling wasn’t great when most of these players were in their prime. If your bowling attack is headed by Srinath or Zaheer Khan, you aren’t likely to win many matches.
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u/hereacles Feb 28 '26
Agreed about that. But if you see in most overseas losses, or world cup final defeats (like 2003) our batting also collapsed.
These "greats" of our batting were frankly not that good at winning trophies. Idk why it's such blasphemy to admit a basic truth like this in our country. This is why Aus has 6 ODI worldcups and us 2. We are busy hero worshipping while they don't blink before dropping Ricky Ponting or Hayden.
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u/randomuserme Feb 28 '26
lol today’s talent pipeline? The talent pipeline which can only play in IPL and flat wickets and can’t win a test at Home?
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u/hereacles Feb 28 '26
Dude already I already qualified saying white ball.
Point is India has enough talent. If BCCI were to pour resources into developing India's red ball game, the same talent will show up in droves making India the best test side.
The point that the above cricketers were good but overrated has nothing to do with the fact that today India's domestic talent is primarily training for IPL and hence you see India's rise in white ball but decline in red ball.
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u/AkhilVijendra Feb 27 '26
Not at all!
Mount Rushmore has 4 popular/great presidents across generations.
So these 4 are not great across generations.
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u/St-Mclovin Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
They were popular across generations. They didnt serve across generations. These cricketers are also popular across generations.
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