West Indies Cricket Fans

After Alastair Cook thwarted India for more than nine hours with some splendid defensive skills in Ahmedabad, there was some mention of how the Indian bowlers had again come off second-best against a left-hand batsman. That line of analysis was also prompted by a few other names that cropped up when comparing Cook's effort with those of other overseas batsmen who had defied India's bowlers for long periods: Cook's innings fell only seven minutes short of the longest by an England batsman in India - Graeme Fowler batted 563 minutes to score 201 in Chennai in 1985. Cook's effort was also the longest by an overseas batsman in the second innings of a Test in India, going 12 minutes beyond Andy Flower's 544-minute marathon in Nagpur in 2000. That made it three left-handers who figure prominently in discussions of overseas batsmen who have been very successful against India. Add a few more, like Matthew Hayden and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, and it's easy to imagine a pattern of Indian bowlers struggling against left-handers.

Rev wrote:Actually if you do a statsguru search on the top 10 test scorers against India you'll find out that 5 are right hand batsmen and 5 are left hand batsmen.

link to top scorers against India

Rev

BallOil wrote: nice stats... the top 3 run scorers are all right handers. Shiv is the only Lefty to scored more than 2000 runs against Indian. Six West Indians are in the top 12 batters in runs..