{"id":382423,"date":"2025-08-29T12:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382423\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:29:16","slug":"is-there-a-correlation-between-height-and-batting-rahul-dravid-answers-shorter-people-have-the-advantagevirat-kohli-might-not-like-me-calling-him-shortish-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382423\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a correlation between height and batting? Rahul Dravid answers: \u2018Shorter people have the advantage\u2026Virat Kohli might not like me calling him shortish\u2019 | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunil Gavaskar (1.65 meters) and Sachin Tendulkar (1.65 meters). What is the one common thing? They are a touch on the shorter side in terms of height. And former India head coach and the prolific run-scorer for India, Rahul Dravid, points out that because of the shorter heights, a few batters get a greater advantage amongst others. Besides Gavaskar and Tendulkar, Dravid also pointed at Brian Lara and Ricky Ponting at examples for this theory that being short helps make for a \u201cgreat batter\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dravid himself, who was 1.8 meters, said the way he stood made him feel \u201cuncomfortable.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\u201cGavaskar was a beautifully balanced player,\u201d Dravid said on the Haal Chaal Aur Sawaal podcast with Ashish Kaushik. \u201cI always remember, he always seemed to. There was a stillness when he stood, which is what I admired. I was always slightly taller, so I didn\u2019t copy anything. I just stood in a way that made me feel uncomfortable. Tendulkar again was very balanced. Shorter people have the advantage of looking more balanced because the centre of gravity is lower. That\u2019s what they say.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cA lot of great batters over the years have been shorter people. Look at Gavaskar, or Tendulkar or a (Brian) Lara or a (Ricky) Ponting\u2026 going back to Bradman. Kohli is shortish. Virat Kohli<\/a> might not like me calling him shortish, though,\u201d Dravid observed.<\/p>\n

However, Dravid, despite having a disadvantage of being taller, still managed to have a prolific record in his international career in the longer format of the game. From 164 Tests, he managed to amass 13,288 runs at an average of 52.31 with 36 tons next to his name and 63 half-centuries, and is the fifth-highest run-getter in the format.<\/p>\n

Although in his time it was not an advantage because of the rise in T20 cricket, Dravid feels being tall gives a batter considerable advantage. \u201cBut today, as the game is changing and becoming a lot about power and hitting sixes. The reach of the taller guys is becoming an advantage. Physics will tell you. Kevin Pietersen, Kieron Pollard. Look at the guys who are batting these days, in T20s especially,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunil Gavaskar (1.65 meters) and Sachin Tendulkar (1.65 meters). What is the one common thing? They are a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,132878,81700,12356,132877,15616,79,6924,45346,32405,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-382423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-don-bradman-ricky-ponting","10":"tag-dravid","11":"tag-rahul-dravid","12":"tag-rahul-dravid-sachin-tendulkar","13":"tag-sachin-tendulkar","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-news","16":"tag-tendulkar","17":"tag-the-indian-express","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115112061561395844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}