One of the most over-used words in the cricketing dictionary is "great", because there are very few players in any country who qualify. It is in any case a subjective view and all of us are limited by the number of players we have seen over the year when judging earlier players, we have to take the word of people We trust, who have in fact seen them play. My view of Indian batsmen is that there have been a lot of very good ones, some able to play in all. Conditions, some best when playing on their own pitches.I believe there are three "great Indian batsmen and I put them in order of appearance on the Test scene - Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.