Fair comments there fred.I am lucky enough to have seen them both.Saw Tallon in both Shield games and Tests and he was vastly superior to Knott in all facets of the Stumper's art.I have actually seen him on a number of occasions "stand up" for Lindwall and that is no mean feat in itself.I really don't consider the number of byes as a yardstick. eg the 4 byes Harmison gave away in that Test against the Aussies.
Yes I'm not reading too much into the byes figures - at the end of the day I know Tallon was an old-fashioned "stumper" who was always looking to pressurise the batsman and who therefore stood up to just about everybody whenever he could - Evans was cut from similar cloth although I don't think he often stood up to the out and fast men, but he certainly did to Alec Bedser - wouldn't have thought he would have dared to do so to Fiery Fred, unless he was trying to gee him up of course!
Well, when you have two world class spinners, you get these sort of stats for them..
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The last time a country had great spinners was probably Warne and MacGill, and I don't think we used them in tandem anywhere near as much as we should have. India didn't do bad at all with Bedi, Chandrasekhar, Prasanna and the little mentioned Ventaraghavan. In more recent times too, they've had success with Harbajhan and Kumble who are nowhere near the quality of Warne and MacGill.
Why? Wasim was awesome. I've not heard your opinion on this.
Something along the lines of too high a proportion of tail end wickets, IIRC.
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