5 greatest players of the hook/pull shot

#3 Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar was the best batsman in the world for the major part of his career and he was best known for having the ability to take on the best fast bowlers in the world on the quickest of pitches. The Indian legend's biggest gift was his penchant of picking up the length of the ball far earlier than most batsmen and he was capable of doing that even on the fastest of wickets.

Although Tendulkar rarely played the hook shot, despite being perfectly capable of playing it when he wanted, he was a monstrous player of the pull shot. Later on in his career, he did not play it as regularly, but during his peak years, the pull came out whenever the fast bowlers pitched anything even marginally short.

His superb record in the hotbeds of fast bowling like Australia and South Africa is another indication of the sort of mastery he had over the short ball.