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Anderson and Steyn

Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
akilana said:
say for instance, there was a tour match, he could have used that to get into rythm.
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Yeah but there wasn't, and in modern cricket there often isn't. If we accept the reasoning that he's slow to get back into rhythm after a layoff or whatever then that's a criticism of his bowling as he'd be more useful if it wasn't so.

Don't get me wrong; I think he's best bowler in the world by a pretty big margin and I expect him to go down as one of the best bowlers of all time. I just don't really like your logic there. It doesn't really matter why he didn't bowl well - point is he didn't, and it rightly counts against him. Maybe it's overplayed or whatever, I'm not arguing that; I'm just saying the reason for him not bowling well doesn't really matter.
 
Agent Nationaux

Agent Nationaux

International Coach
@akilana, I wasn't taking anything away from Steyn by highlighting his poor series against us. I can understand why he wasn't as good as he normally is. The pitches were dreadful (Pakistan managing to overcome a collapse says a lot about the pitches), and he had been injured (as you have pointed out).
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Funny, I don't remember people making allowance for Broad's injury woes when people were hilariously claiming Sreesanth and Ishant were better bowlers than him.
 
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