Yashasvi Jaiswal is one of India's top 10 batsmen of all time and Sachin Tendulkar is not number 1.

Yashasvi Jaiswal lit up this series against England with a couple of superb double hundreds. Photo: Getty Images/PUNIT PARANJPE

Here are the 10 most brilliant Indian batsmen I have seen. I would really like to see K.S. Ranjitsinhji, his nephew K.S. Dulepsinhji and the Nawab of Pataudi Jr., who all won blues and played county cricket, and Vijay Merchant, who founded the Bombay School of Batting, averaging 71 in first-class cricket, second only to Sir Donald Bradman.

< p>But I have seen the others and I believe that Yashasvi Jaiswal has just entered this elite company. Indian batsmanship is different from English or Australian batsmanship: less lead elbow and forearm, more wicket area. More carpal. More stylish.

Here are Telegraph Sport's top 10…

10. Yashasvi Jaiswal

The only left-hander on this list, although the brave Risabh Pant will hopefully join him once he recovers from his car accident. Has anyone ever had faster wrists than India's new opener? He could certainly swing the bat even faster than Ravi Jadeja does when he turns 50.

Using these wrists in the third Test, he set a world Test record of 12 sixes in a single innings. He already seems to be a fully-fledged Test batsman on Indian pitches, with two hundred already. The big test will be next winter when the ball flies over his ears in Australia, but he seems to have enough hand-eye coordination to handle it.

9. Gundappa Viswanath

“A wish come true” is how it was proclaimed in India in the 1970s. Standing under 5ft 6in tall, he could cut anything from a stump, any length, square or late.

England had three fielders and a sweeper to cut at Madras in the 1981–82 Test, and he still continued to smash the field to reach his then highest innings for India against England; 222. A delightful batsman and man in every way, and he was at his best when the West Indies were at their best.

8. Rahul Dravid

Very compact, strong and defensive for most of his career, but he blossomed — at least in front of the English eyes — when he taught us how to play spin. Don't work every takeoff with «spin» towards the leg side, where most of the fielders are. Instead, hit him straight back in the direction he came from after the delivery, such as kicking him off the front or back foot through extra cover.

Dravid has gracefully rethought our understanding of the game against spin and in doing so has taken the lead from the other handsome number three, Dilip Vengsarkar.< /p>7. VVS Laxman

A great innings player — his 281 in the subsequent match against Australia at Calcutta was perhaps the best ever in Tests, or equal to Ben Stokes' 135* at Headingley — perhaps more than a great player because he proved to be good at batting , rather than being obsessed with it.

The best thing about it was that the ball bounced at about waist level: those steel wrists then cut or lashed the ball from the side of the leg. Three of his 17 Test hundreds came with the ball bouncing at waist level in Sydney; none, unfortunately, in England, where it was uneven.

6. Rohit Sharma

A feast for the eyes as the epitome of orthodox batting in the style of Sunil Gavaskar, such as his sumptuous 131 in the third Test of the series. No trigger movements other than curling your toes; no punches to the chest when the back shoulder takes over.

He takes so long that he hooks his front foot, even though stroke play — real hitting, never trying to hit the ball too hard — has not yet been fully implemented in testing. His best format was the 50-over international: he was the first man to score two double centuries in ODIs and has scored three in eight so far.

5. Mohammed Azharuddin

In 1984, this skinny student took to the streets and scored a century against England in each of his first three Tests. For the English it was a wild geometry: the ball always disappeared at right angles to where it came from. And a straight ball is equally likely to disappear through point or square leg.

During his hundred in Chennai on a smooth surface against two good England players in Pat Pocock and Phil Edmonds Azhar almost felt giddy at how easy batting could be. His wrists must have been tungsten. According to India's Central Bureau of Investigation, these were dark times, but his performance was breathtaking.

4. Sachin Tendulkar

Never forget how strong he was: to compensate for his size in school, he beat all comers in arm wrestling. This strength and perhaps the best of all cricket minds allowed him to become the first Indian batsman to win in Australia as, intent on dominating their pace attack, he rose onto his back foot and raced away. Its centenary in Perth in 1992 was one of the modern wonders, and other early opportunities were dazzling.

The later Tendulkar was more interested in accumulation and numbers, such as achieving 100 international centuries — which ultimately happened in a losing game game against Bangladesh — and 200 Tests, which he eventually did: not that exciting to watch.

3. Virat Kohli

The fittest of India's Test batsmen, one might assume, and therefore has a less aesthetic or more masculine style than most. His extra cover, his signature shot is more physical than Joe Root's, to which he adds wrist movement in the final move.

Kohli is also the most charismatic of Indian cricketers, the most expressive, the most emotional (which did not make him a great captain tactically) and also the fastest between the wickets. His best format could be said to be ODI — 50 centuries and an average of 58, almost per ball — for all his Test exploits in Australia.

2. Sunil Gavaskar

No right-hander was as pleasing to the eye as Gavaskar in full flow. Anyway, until recently he was the man who opened the batting with Sir Jack Hobbs in the World XI match against Mars. He was like Rohit Sharma in the sense that he was the epitome of orthodoxy, except he kept the ball on the ground.

Sometimes, however, he would go into negative mode and not use his abilities: most famously, his unbeaten 36 from 174 against England in the 1975 World Cup. However, at his best he was perfect, especially when I saw his century of 94 balls in New Delhi against the West Indies, which equaled Bradman's record of 29 Test hundreds, when his driving on both sides of the wicket was magical.

He raised the bar by scoring faster than any professional batsman in Test history — five runs and 82 off 100 balls. He produced masterpieces like 319 off 304 balls against South Africa and 293 off 254 against Sri Lanka, showing the bowler his stumps and using his hands, forearms and wrists to hit straight balls offside like never before. He failed to make a mark in England: in fact, he scored just five Test hundreds outside Asia, where he averaged 57 when riding like an express.

But the decisive moment for me was the Bangalore Test against England. Ashley Giles lofted the ball over the wicket and into the rough area, and while Tendulkar was hitting the ball without hitting, Sehwag was running down the field to hit it inside out over extra cover — does any shot require the coordination of so many muscles? ? — or anywhere else he wishes. Genius.