Weird ones: Chanderpaul. Graham Gooch, Ijaz Ahmad, Taufeeq Umar, Wavell Hinds.
Stylish ones: Allan Lamb, Mark Waugh, Tendulkar,
What do you people think?
I must emphasize that I am not talking about playing styles, just the batting stances.
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add Mohammad Kaif in the weird onces.
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I like Chanderpaul's stance. It's different :D
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I agree, I hate kaif and his stance, chanderpual stance also is very wierd.
Chris broad was a different one too, had a high backlift.
I think saeed anwar, viv richards, mark waugh had stylish stances. Currently I like dravid and thorpe.
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Aamir Sohail, I had my heart in my mouth with every ball he faced.Will he get the bat down in time or not? Scary!..
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I was about to name him. Exactly, that’s what I thought and then the way he would keep on bouncing it in the mid-air was also very weird.
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shiv and bazid khan definitely have very weird stances + tresco's is similar to graham gooch's in a way. i like michael vaughan's stance.
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saeed anwar all the way
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youhana in the stylish ones
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Chris Broad in stylish ones. The way he would lift his bat in air as bowler get into delivery mode.
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Srikanth used to stand so his left foot is ahead of his right foot, so the body is basically tilted towards his wicket.
Stylish ones… Mohsin Khan :k:
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have we forgotten Shoib Mohammad's style of batting... i used to think, he wants all the bowlers to aim at his Butt:D (cuz he used to stand sideways on the pitch), so he could pull those deliveries to midwicket... i have started playing like that as well.. its pretty productive, u get a longer range on your on side and ofside as well.. but ya, its awkward style but as long as its getting runs, its all good...:)
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new zealand's mathew bell has the stupidest batting stance i have ever seen....
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Chanderpaul has the ugliest batting stance. Ever. Really.
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LoL. He had a funny batting style for sure.
I will also agree with people who named Aamir Sohail. He was weirdly aggressive in everything he did.
Mohammad Kaif is not so bad. The only thing I dislike about his stance is the way he hurridely hits his bat on the floor with his bat right before the bowler bowls. But I will agree with armughal. The way Mathew Bell holds his bat is bound to make bowlers want to hit him with the ball 
sophisticated. You reminded me of good old days, Shoaib Mohammad was one of the most boring but an effective opener in all conditions.
Saeed Anwar, Micheal Vaughan, Mohsin Khan: all stylish indeed.
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Saeed Anwer was classic :k:
& Amir Sohail’s who I copy,
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Damien Martyn's stance is stylish.
Shoaib Akhtar definitely has one of the weird ones :D
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ditto… i wonder why people didn’t bowl yorkers to him… (teiz wali)
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Ijaz ahmad the worst one...
Gower and Zaheer Abass the most sylish one
( both were tall slim and elegant. They used to stand relatively straight with their bats touching the ground very gently. Very poetic style)
Arvinda de Silva most commanding and authoritative one like a warrior
Tendulkar, Gavaskar ( he used to keep his toes few inches higher than the ground) the most composed one
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He wouldn’t have taken that stance if he was so easy to bowl out through quick yorkers. Wasim Akram once said that he always tried to target Graham Gooch with yorkers at the start of his innings, but he would always block them out. A test batsman can’t score runs unless he really knows what he is doing.