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[ramshorns]

VVS over everyone when it comes to style and strokeplay with SRT closely behind.

Not true at all. SRT is way better since he can play shots all around the wicket where VVS is certainly is very good on leg side and RD in his prime was very good on off side. Just on top of my head I can remember the following strokes as their memorable ones
VVS's on drive/ or any other drive on leg side/ pull when he plays  ( which he rarely does)
SRT - any shots off back foot especially the punches on off drive/straight drive/cuts/flicks on leg side/patented paddle sweep/pull

I do not think SRT is way better than VVS.  It is your lack of observation that VVS is only good on the onside.  Actually it is the offside strokes that are more pleasing to the eye be it the on the rise cover drive or on the toes waft between the slip cordon and the point region.  He plays the off drive or the straight drive with equal ease and pull and cut with elan that make people gasp in the stands.  And his on side flicks and wrist work is legendary perhaps rarely seen on a cricket field.

RD's straight/on drive/cover drive/Short arm pull ( Which he used to play earlier and has almost stopped now)

I do not find any joy in any of the strokes RD plays.  They come across to me as laborious in comparision to VVS or a SRT which is more easy on the eye.

Anyway if you find RD more pleasing than VVS good for you and enjoy the show the rarity with with which they come given his S/R these days in Tests.

sure now we can add how many people gasp in the stand also as one of the factors!. In that case sub continent players are always the greatest players of all time compared to all those 'cut and pull and hook' players from Australia/SA.  by this logic one can prove that even RPonting is a flat track bully as he has rarely had a great record against a good bowling attack and that too on flat Australian pitches.

You can clutch on to all the straws you want. 

You can keep beating around the bush all you want.

Fact of the matter.  RD holds no candle to VVS when it comes to the range of strokes or the style that glitters ones eyes and joy it brings to the faces of the fans in Test match cricket.  One more time for you : huh's and hah's in the stands is what I am talking about that culminates into gasp in the stands.

Now if you get joy in a full toss patted back with a deadbat which RD does from time to time who am I to stop you.  Keep beating his drum and derive pleasure through RD's strokeplay.