Players who handled one type of bowling awsomely but failed against the other.

[Kylez]

This thread is for the players who were great at facing one type of bowling ( Pace for example ) but complete failures against another type of bowling.

I'm sure you will all have better suggestions than I do.

 

[BoyBrumby]

First two blokes I thought of were Alec Stewart and Robin Smith. Both imperious against pace, but rather less so against spin.

 

[Migara]

Kumar Dharmasena - Would block, nudge and blast spinners all day, as well as any fast stuff that is pitched up to him, but was a complete rabbit when chin music started.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

BB has it spot on and you can add Flintoff to that too, was awful against spin.

 

[Uppercut]

Ashwell Prince takes the biscuit I think. Only two fast bowlers have dismissed him more than twice, but seven spinners have. Including Chris Gayle. Shane Warne got him out eleven times .

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Different angle, Michael Vaughan was great against pace and very good against spin but struggled massively with medium pace dobbers at 80mph.

 

[robelinda]

Greg Blewett- smacked pace bowlers for fun, didnt have a clue against spin. Had a decent tour of SL in 1999, but it was more legspin he was clueless against- Kumble 98, Mushy 95. Though his dismissal in 1999 against Mushy was a bit dubious....

YouTube - ‪WORST LBW DECISION EVER - Greg Blewett facing Mushtaq Ahmed 1999‬‏

 

[wpdavid]

Dennis Amiss was world class against everything except genuinely fast bowling. Check his test average from 1973 to 1977 against everyone apart from the Australians. One of the few Englishmen to succeed in India, on both of his tours there iirc, against Bedi, Chandra et al.

(And yes, I know he made that terrific 200 at the Oval in 1976 but that was very much the exception and it was an absolute road. Much good it did us in the 2nd innings, of course.)

 

[wpdavid]

Different angle, Michael Vaughan was great against pace and very good against spin but struggled massively with medium pace dobbers at 80mph.

Trueish about Gooch, as well.

 

[Migara]

Gatting against quality spin is another. I know he had scored heavily against India, but was truely awful against young Kumble, Warne and Murali. Warnaweera made him look like a U-13 boy playing spin, but then he was very much long in tooth as a spinner.

 

[Cevno]

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Among the best players of spin i have seen,if not the best.

Used to charge down any spinner and smack them to all part. Ranatunga said at one point Muralitharan even used to be scared to bowl at him.
He said Murali used to say i want a long on and long off for him at all times.
Also Warne got plenty of bashings from him too.

But was pretty ordinary against the seamers ,specially when it used to bounce.

 

[wpdavid]

Navjot Singh Sidhu.

Among the best players of spin i have seen,if not the best.

Used to charge down any spinner and smack them to all part. Ranatunga said at one point Muralitharan even used to be scared to bowl at him.
Also Warne got plenty of bashings from him too.

But was pretty ordinary against the seamers ,specially when it used to bounce.

Now you mention it, I remember him absolutely marmalising John Emburey on the 1993 tour.

 

[benchmark00]

In b4 Ponting & Pietersen.

 

[zaremba]

BB has it spot on and you can add Flintoff to that too, was awful against spin.

I remember one innings he played, a televised knock against Surrey, on a turning pitch, when Fred destroyed Saqlain and (admittedly less of a scalp) Salisbury en route to a superb hundred. It was the first time I had seen him score runs and it was bloody awesome to watch. And I think he got some runs against Warne in '05.

Having said all of which I agree he wasn't, overall, great against the slow stuff

 

[salman85]

Graeme Hick.

Could handle pace very well,but arguably the worst specialist batsman i've seen against Leg Spin.

 

[hang on]

excellent thread.

cullinan pace vs leg spin. more particularly, warne's spin.

tendulkar.

the dobbers.

 

[Flem274*]

Tendulkar vs debutants

 

[BoyBrumby]

Graeme Hick.

Could handle pace very well,but arguably the worst specialist batsman i've seen against Leg Spin.

Are we sure? He was badly exposed by the Windies seam quartet in his debut series.

I personally think Hick was a great player of mediocre bowling of whatever speed, but his real problems were against quality pace.

 

[salman85]

I could be wrong,but i always felt his biggest weakness was against Leg Spin.He looked clueless everytime i saw him against a leg spinner.

 

[BoyBrumby]

I could be wrong,but i always felt his biggest weakness was against Leg Spin.He looked clueless everytime i saw him against a leg spinner.

Well, looking at his career figures he averages about 35 aganist both India and Australia who had the best leggies during his career (not flash, but better than his overall test figure of of 31.32), as opposed to 15.76 against the Pakistan of Waqar and Wasim and 29.35 against the Windies.