Best batsman against yorkers

[velu]

From whatever cricket i had seen the players who play yorkers without any difficulty are ,

1) Kohli
2) Dhoni
3) AB DV
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Kohli is the best batmen when comes to hitting yorkers.
Kohli's technique is very simple , go back a little and dont get your legs tangled and flick/whip it anywhere towards onside. Malinga is a cannon fodder for kohli when he keeps bowling yorkers.

Dhoni was my ex No 1 in this list , but now i do think kohli is better than him.
Dhoni has got very fats hands and he just whips the yorkers with brute power.

AB DV gives some room and drills it towards off. In some IPL game , steyn was bowling 150 km yorkers and he kept repeating this.

Any other players ??

[Crickfan777]

Lol. I doubt there's anyone that is best. Yorker is something that a batsman should expect all the time. If he doesn't he won't get away with it. That's the simple theory. Whoever follows it, plays it well.

[Bilal7]

No one can play a true yorker with ease, unless they know that the bowler is going to bowl one. All that technique and stuff doesn't matter if you're taken by surprise.

[withlovefrom vizag]

there is one and only M S DHONI

he can hit sixes against yorkers

[withlovefrom vizag]

Originally Posted by velu From whatever cricket i had seen the players who play yorkers without any difficulty are , 1) Kohli 2) Dhoni 3) AB DV . . Kohli is the best batmen when comes to hitting yorkers. Kohli's technique is very simple , go back a little and dont get your legs tangled and flick/whip it anywhere towards onside. Malinga is a cannon fodder for kohli when he keeps bowling yorkers. Dhoni was my ex No 1 in this list , but now i do think kohli is better than him. Dhoni has got very fats hands and he just whips the yorkers with brute power. AB DV gives some room and drills it towards off. In some IPL game , steyn was bowling 150 km yorkers and he kept repeating this. Any other players ??

they're not yorkers,steyn kept bowling those juicy full length deliveries and ABD showed his class

[style_guru]

Originally Posted by Bilal7 No one can play a true yorker with ease, unless they know that the bowler is going to bowl one. All that technique and stuff doesn't matter if you're taken by surprise.

But the point here is that, which batsmen is the least surprised by a yorker

[Pete Rose]

there is no good batsman against a yorker or even a bouncer
there are ofcourse good batsmen against a bad yorker, or a bad bouncer.

[IcedEarth]

One batsman, Aravinda de Silva. Deadly against yorkers

[Bullet Drive]

It's impossible to hit a yorker for 6.

[MenInG]

All those with low back lifts - wonder how MoYo fared against yorkers?

[Executioner]

Originally Posted by Bullet Drive It's impossible to hit a yorker for 6.

So true

[Bilal7]

Originally Posted by withlovefrom vizag there is one and only M S DHONI he can hit sixes against yorkers

You mean full-tosses?

Like some have said before, it is impossible to hit sixes against yorkers.

[withlovefrom vizag]

^^^^ohh,you guys must see IPL

[Alamgeer]

Originally Posted by Bullet Drive It's impossible to hit a yorker for 6.

Razzaq has done it many times.

[Bilal7]

How can you loft a ball for six that lands at your toes and almost doesn't bounce?
If you get your bat under it, you still don't have any sort of power or timing and will probably gift a catch to a fielder within the inner circle.

Those must be full-tosses which many batsmen turn yorkers into by coming down the track.

[withlovefrom vizag]

^^^that is the reason he is MS DHONI

[chui_kadoo]

It is impossible to hit a yorker for six. I guess you mean low full toss deliveries.

[withlovefrom vizag]

Originally Posted by chui_kadoo It is impossible to hit a yorker for six. I guess you mean low full toss deliveries.

no,the real yorkers

[khalil1986]

Originally Posted by withlovefrom vizag no,the real yorkers

Go check the definition of yorker, no matter how good you are a true yorker would land hitting right at the bottom of the bat. Now if the batsman can improvise ie move back in his crease so that a ball that would have yorked him is now a half volley than that ball will no longer be a yorker.

[Gunner85]

Originally Posted by khalil1986 Go check the definition of yorker, no matter how good you are a true yorker would land hitting right at the bottom of the bat. Now if the batsman can improvise ie move back in his crease so that a ball that would have yorked him is now a half volley than that ball will no longer be a yorker.

Then can one hit a yorker for a 4?

[shades]

Come on. There needs no discussion for this. Lance Klusener was the best against yorkers. Of course not perfect yorkers as nobody can do anything about it but he used to blast even the near perfect ones for 4s and 6s.

[khalil1986]

Originally Posted by Gunner85 Then can one hit a yorker for a 4?

I guess a genuine yorker can go off the edge past the keeper.

[IAJ]

Originally Posted by velu From whatever cricket i had seen the players who play yorkers without any difficulty are , 1) Kohli 2) Dhoni 3) AB DV. . AB DV gives some room and drills it towards off. In some IPL game , steyn was bowling 150 km yorkers and he kept repeating this. Any other players ??

Lols you just put AB there so people would not critisize you for being biased. But sorry to ruin your party. You ARE biased!

I saw the match where Steyn bowled to AB and those were low fulltosses, not yorkers. You may call them attempted yorkers.

[withlovefrom vizag]

Many cant hit a yorker coz they're late on to the shot,mainly b'coz of the long back lift but MSD has massive power in his wrists which enables him to hit a yorker for six even with a short back lift

[velu]

Originally Posted by iaj lols you just put ab there so people would not critisize you for being biased. But sorry to ruin your party. You are biased! i saw the match where steyn bowled to ab and those were low fulltosses, not yorkers. You may call them attempted yorkers.

ab dv made it as a low full
anyway i had not seen too many players whiping yorkers like what kohli does

[Couch Cricketer]

The truth is at the moment their are no bowlers that can bowl the kind of yorkers Wasim, Waqar and Akhter used to bowl plus with 2 new balls and so many cameras no one reverses it much either.

[Fearless-Striker]

Yorkers are not yorkers anymore

Malingas yorkers are nice and full but not in a complete block hole and class batsman like kohli picks it up as so many cant

But in saying that Imagine the deadly toe crushers of waqar, In diping yoker of Akhtar, and reverse swinging yorker of Wasim, they were the real ones lol

In saying that gosh i miss pakistani bowling attack :/

[withlovefrom vizag]

yorker is a yorker,there is nothing like wasim's yorker etc
Inswinging yorker of any bowler is lethal

[Zamee]

Originally Posted by withlovefrom vizag no,the real yorkers

Come again?

[khalil1986]

I would like to see Dhoni hit this for six, he can even use his 'helicopter shot'

[Justcrazy]

Its Viv , he was awesome against fast bowling ....... None can compare with him.

[withlovefrom vizag]

Originally Posted by Zamee Come again?

you have my answer in post #24

[~Red Devil~]

This is a "REAL" yorker and NO ONE I mean NO ONE can play it

[withlovefrom vizag]

do u know what if u miss a low full toss,it turns out to be an excellent yorker

[LegCutter]

Originally Posted by withlovefrom vizag do u know what if u miss a low full toss,it turns out to be an excellent yorker

Mate, that's not how it works. A yorker is bowled at the toes. A full-toss is bowled at the stumps.

I know you love Dhoni, I love him as well; but there's NOBODY who can hit a six at a 90mph bullet coming to your toe; it doesnt matter if he has wrists of Andre the Giant, you will never be able to generate enough power to send it across the boundary.

Having said that, Kohli is extremely good at PICKING yorkers and guiding them on the onside. That's what the question was, right? Whose the best at playing the yorkers? Not who can hit sixes off of them. Well my answer is Virat Kohli.

[withlovefrom vizag]

Originally Posted by LegCutter Mate, that's not how it works. A yorker is bowled at the toes. A full-toss is bowled at the stumps. I know you love Dhoni, I love him as well; but there's NOBODY who can hit a six at a 90mph bullet coming to your toe; it doesnt matter if he has wrists of Andre the Giant, you will never be able to generate enough power to send it across the boundary. Having said that, Kohli is extremely good at PICKING yorkers and guiding them on the onside. That's what the question was, right? Whose the best at playing the yorkers? Not who can hit sixes off of them. Well my answer is Virat Kohli.

wat?!
Doesnt the toes come in front of the stumps

[Free Hit]

afridi is best

[LegCutter]

Originally Posted by withlovefrom vizag wat?! Doesnt the toes come in front of the stumps

If a batsman misses a yorker, it's going to hit the pitch first or his toes before hitting the stumps.

A low full-toss, although extremely similar and unplayable at times, if missed will go directly to hit the stumps without touching the pitch at all.

Low full tosses can be extremely brutal, esp when coming at 90+ mph. Remember Wahab's delivery to Yuvraj in the World Cup? That was a fulltoss, not a yorker and if a batsman misses them like Yuvraj did, can indeed look extremely similar to a yorker. But if picked properly, can indeed by lofted off for a six.

Yorkers can be guided to the on-side like Kohli was doing masterfuly yesterday, but there's no physical way to generate enough power to loft them away for a six, due to their low height.

[LegCutter]

This is a yorker. If you look closely, it takes one bounce inside the crease before going on to hit the stumps.



Another one:

[khalil1986]

Originally Posted by ~Red Devil~ This is a "REAL" yorker and NO ONE I mean NO ONE can play it

the second dismissal is not a yorker and can be almost termed as a half volley.

[Desi]

i would love to see a clip of a batsman hitting an actual yorker for a 6.

[PakFan2010]

- 3.00

Eoin Morgan is pretty decent, he turns them into full tosses.

[withlovefrom vizag]

it also depends on the batsman's distance from the stumps

and abt those two vdos,akhtar's is more of a low full toss(although an yorker).......

I have a vdo which has an yorker by malinga which is very similar to bond's

[Ashraful_Rox]

MSD
Kohli is pure class
i remember hitting lee's perfect yorkers for sixers

[truthseer]

Originally Posted by withlovefrom vizag it also depends on the batsman's distance from the stumps and abt those two vdos,akhtar's is more of a low full toss(although an yorker)....... I have a vdo which has an yorker by malinga which is very similar to bond's

Not to call your knowledge of anything in question but neither of those are yorkers, they're half volleys. It is indeed difficult to distinguish between them but you'll notice that a yorker is fuller, it's not how back Dhoni went here, that's a half volley and easily picked for six

[Savak]

Yuvraj Singh

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[Zamee]

Originally Posted by withlovefrom vizag you have my answer in post #24

lol so you're telling me that Dhoni can hit this for six?? The one which bamboozled the great Lara??
Ahem.

[truthseer]

For the Dhoni fans:

[Havoc]

Originally Posted by withlovefrom vizag it also depends on the batsman's distance from the stumps and abt those two vdos,akhtar's is more of a low full toss(although an yorker)....... I have a vdo which has an yorker by malinga which is very similar to bond's

That is not a yorker, lol.

[LegCutter]

WithLovefromVizag, the video you posted; the ball was pitched:
i)Directly infront of the yorker length (pause it on the 12th second), making it a half-volley; and:
ii)Outside off, making it even easier to get the bat under it.

Credit to Dhoni for making full use of the ball; but that wasnt a yorker man.

[Amjid Javed]

Originally Posted by Savak Yuvraj Singh Sent from my BlackBerry 9360 using Tapatalk

Yeah he looked against wahab riaz when picking yorkers in world cup!

[LegCutter]

Originally Posted by Amjid Javed Yeah he looked against wahab riaz when picking yorkers in world cup!

And that wasnt even a proper yorker. That was pitched BEHIND the batsman's toes; it could have easily been picked with a low backlift.



Pause at 0:31 on full screen; Kohli or Dhoni would have played that with ease.

[truthseer]

That was a low full toss

[Acim]

He was beaten by pace and little bit of movement.

[A.M.]

Abdul Razzaq is pretty good at playing yorkers

[khalil1986]

You don't play yorkers, you dig them out. :Akhtar

[withlovefrom vizag]

that was an yorker and at the last second MSD just moved back,i think you can see it in the vdo....

and i must say yorkers look good wen batsman miss it

[LegCutter]

Originally Posted by withlovefrom vizag that was an yorker and at the last second MSD just moved back,i think you can see it in the vdo.... and i must say yorkers look good wen batsman miss it

....Even if we forego the length, that was not even directing at the stumps It was missing the offstump.

[JibranAnsari]

you have to use your crease against the york length delivery to make it hittable, either to go back or come down the wicket. There is no way you can hit a true yorker for 6 without manipulating the length.

[Ismailtoca]

Originally Posted by JibranAnsari you have to use your crease against the york length delivery to make it hittable, either to go back or come down the wicket. There is no way you can hit a true yorker for 6 without manipulating the length.

+1

As many have mentionned, a yorker can not be hit for a six. Either you come down the pitch or flick it for 4

[khalil1986]

Originally Posted by JibranAnsari you have to use your crease against the york length delivery to make it hittable, either to go back or come down the wicket. There is no way you can hit a true yorker for 6 without manipulating the length.

That's the thing though once you do that when the ball reaches the batsman it is no longer a yorker it's either a full toss or a half volley.

[Ahmad Shah]

for the people who claim dhoni to be the God against yorkers
must see this

[LegCutter]

I do love Dhoni's helicopter shot though <3

[Random Aussie]

Nice of the OP to include a token batter from another country in his list.

Answer is obviously whichever Indian batter is flavour of the month.

[Ironcat]

Miandad. He would simply convert a yorker into either a half volley or a low full toss.

[Bilal7]

Originally Posted by Ironcat Miandad. He would simply convert a yorker into either a half volley or a low full toss.

Meaning he didn't play yorkers.

[amlafan79]

Originally Posted by LegCutter WithLovefromVizag, the video you posted; the ball was pitched: i)Directly infront of the yorker length (pause it on the 12th second), making it a half-volley; and: ii)Outside off, making it even easier to get the bat under it. Credit to Dhoni for making full use of the ball; but that wasnt a yorker man.

lol he went back it was perfect length but dhoni made it into half voley by shifting his weight back
seen him do this multiple times.. i rememb people saying this after we chased 320 i think in 37 overs tht malinga is bowling at leg stump of kohli.. what happened in recent series?
ofc if batsman ht the ball it wont look good.. same ball which malinga bowledi n this video had it been played with difficulty abd jsut defended for one people would have said its perfect yorker

[Ironcat]

Originally Posted by Bilal7 Meaning he didn't play yorkers.

Meaning he was quick and smart enough not to let a delivery become a yorker.

[amlafan79]

Originally Posted by Ironcat Meaning he was quick and smart enough not to let a delivery become a yorker.

ya thts the thing..if u hit yorkers they dont really look like good balls

[shahidafridi123]

Here's the Wahab delivery to Yuvraj zoomed up, paused at 00:31 seconds of the video posted above:



Yorker or not? I don't think so

[LegCutter]

^It's a low full-toss. A low back lift would have been able to guide it to the onside

[Saqs]

Originally Posted by Ahmad Shah for the people who claim dhoni to be the God against yorkers must see this

Was about to add this myself.

What a manly scream by Gul.

[Bilal7]

^ lol. I liked his hair though.

[Bilal7]

Originally Posted by Ironcat Meaning he was quick and smart enough not to let a delivery become a yorker.

Meaning he didn't play yorkers.

[Ironcat]

Originally Posted by Bilal7 Meaning he didn't play yorkers.

Quite an achievement considering he played more than 25,000 deliveries!

[bmwduran]

Originally Posted by velu From whatever cricket i had seen the players who play yorkers without any difficulty are , 1) Kohli 2) Dhoni 3) AB DV . . Kohli is the best batmen when comes to hitting yorkers. Kohli's technique is very simple , go back a little and dont get your legs tangled and flick/whip it anywhere towards onside. Malinga is a cannon fodder for kohli when he keeps bowling yorkers. Dhoni was my ex No 1 in this list , but now i do think kohli is better than him. Dhoni has got very fats hands and he just whips the yorkers with brute power. AB DV gives some room and drills it towards off. In some IPL game , steyn was bowling 150 km yorkers and he kept repeating this. Any other players ??

Kohli is lucky that Waqar has retired, especially th one that was during his first five of the career, yorker is one thing, but, a beastly toe crusher that keep coming back at your toes is another thing,

[LegCutter]

Originally Posted by bmwduran Kohli is lucky that Waqar has retired, especially th one that was during his first five of the career, yorker is one thing, but, a beastly toe crusher that keep coming back at your toes is another thing,

Why single out Kohli? In that case every batsman in the world is lucky

[IcedEarth]

Aravinda used to come down the track for the yorkers. And he was easily the best player of Wasim and Waqar's inswinging yorkers. Even Wasim and Waqar may be acknowkledging that.

[MenInG]

Pls dont make any accusations about ball tampering etc - in todays world these are libellous comments and can land people into trouble.

[IcedEarth]

Now who has mentioned about ball tempering?