Bun
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I meant in both tests and ODIs...
Anyways hardly anything to choose between those two guys' test stats imho... Harby has double the no. of 100s that Broad has ftr
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Would Stuart Broad make India's strongest test XI?
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Anyways hardly anything to choose between those two guys' test stats imho... Harby has double the no. of 100s that Broad has ftr
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Bun
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I added an edit to that post..
Further the incremental gain from Broad's batting is nothing as compared to the gain from Harby's bowling...
As I said before I'd prefer Irfan pathan if need be above Broad, if i really want to play a bowler who can bat additionally.
So no, Broad won't make it to the strongest XI imho.
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Prince EWS
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in the abvoe said case the form broad is in .. i will take sree ahead of him for the first test ...don't know which sree will turn up but nay way it better to take him with a 50-50 chnace of a good bowler turning up than the 10-90 chance in case of broad
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I know he's no Manoj Prabhakar or Roger Binny, but still....
Cevno
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Now that you mention it Irfan Pathan wouldn't have been the worst of picks for this test series ,as i have said before.
Would have required courage for the selectors but i would have picked him over Munaf.Showed he was getting his swing back in the IPL and troubled Sachin even.
And in swinging conditions he almost doubles in lethalness.
Actually his bowling average is still better than Ishant,Sreesanth and Broad despite him looking ordinary sometimes ,because when it swung he could run through teams.
He averages 31.57 with the bat too and though it would have been a gamble and taken courage with Praveen already there i would have picked him ahead of Munaf in the squad. Could have been a option for the number 7 slot too.
Jacknife
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If you take out Pathan's bossing of Zim and Bang, he averages 45, with 39 of his 100 wickets against them, so it does make his record look at lot better than it is.
Cevno
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He would have been useful as a all round backup in swinging conditions though.
And besides he was very effective in certain conditions in other series too like against Pakistan away,Srilanka and SA at home and was MOTM in ther perth test that ended Aussies unbeaten winning streak when it swung.
He also just completely lost it for a period which made it look worse.
Besides he is by no means the only bowler to have faced either Zimbabwe or Bangladesh too.
And besides he was very effective in certain conditions in other series too like against Pakistan away,Srilanka and SA at home and was MOTM in ther perth test that ended Aussies unbeaten winning streak when it swung.
He also just completely lost it for a period which made it look worse.
Besides he is by no means the only bowler to have faced either Zimbabwe or Bangladesh too.
Jacknife
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Yes, depending on his form atm he wouldn't make a bad back up at all, for the Indian side in conditions that suit.
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Bun
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srinath ishant sree pk munaf etc etc.
my turn, name one aussie spinner after warne better than virender sehwag pl