Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

[mr_mister]

You can see Warne's influence today with Smith and Warner's actions. It's just instinct to try and bowl like Warne, right down to the lazy walk up to the crease, when having a go at leg spin. It's now synonymous with him

 

[cnerd123]

You can see Warne's influence today with Smith and Warner's actions. It's just instinct to try and bowl like Warne, right down to the lazy walk up to the crease, when having a go at leg spin. It's now synonymous with him

Name one Asian player who does that


Australian players try to mimic Australian legend. Shocking. Real solid evidence of Warne's world wide revival of legspin.

Meanwhile in Pakistan thousands of kids have tried to mimic Qadir and Saqlain, while Yuzzie Chahal is the spiritual successor to Anil Kumble.

 

[mr_mister]

no need for sarcasm ***** jeez. was just agreeing with jedi and adding a further point.


look, when i say 'leg spin' i feel everyones name jumps to Warne. He's the biggest household name. I dont know much about Asian kids but considering how Brett Lee is treated over there I wouldn't be surprised if Warne was well loved and imitated by young kids learning leg spin too, maybe none who made the national team but whatever

maybe he wasnt the sole reviver of the art but he was the leader, or the face of the revival. IMO


and maybe it wasnt completely dead by the time he arrived on the scene, but it was at least dying. one renowned leg spin in qadir hardly changes that. he also doesnt have that great a record. but thats not what im debating either

 

[Shri]

Peter Kirsten is 62 years and 2 months old and Gary Kirsten is 49 years and 7 months old. Weird.

Edit: Never mind, he's his brother, not his father. >_>

 

[mr_mister]

maybe we can say qadir kept it on life support and warne brought it back to life

 

[harsh.ag]

no need for sarcasm ***** jeez. was just agreeing with jedi and adding a further point.

look, when i say 'leg spin' i feel everyones name jumps to Warne. He's the biggest household name. I dont know much about Asian kids but considering how Brett Lee is treated over there I wouldn't be surprised if Warne was well loved and imitated by young kids learning leg spin too, maybe none who made the national team but whatever

maybe he wasnt the sole reviver of the art but he was the leader, or the face of the revival. IMO

and maybe it wasnt completely dead by the time he arrived on the scene, but it was at least dying. one renowned leg spin in qadir hardly changes that. he also doesnt have that great a record. but thats not what im debating either

Again, all of this comes from an Australian perspective. You just can't seem to see it because of the Aussie perspective you have. None of this is actually true apart from the fact that Warne did become the face of leg spin, yes. But that is not even close to the same thing as him reviving leg spin.

Mushy, Kumble, and for that matter MacGill would have been the face of leg spin had it not been for Warne.

And adding further to this, the great new spinners post 90s were all offies or slow left arm orthodox spinners - Swann, Harbhajan, Herath, Ajmal. If Warne did lead some revival of leg spin, then the results didn't follow.

 

[honestbharani]

According to honestb if you bowled leg spin you were part of the revival. Didn't actually have to be any good

And according to mr mr cricket does not exist beyond Australia.

 

[honestbharani]

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Why are we even talking about different countries though? Of course they're going to have different role models. Not many people in Australia really cared about Tendulkar that much (except for kids with Indian-heritage) but that doesn't mean he wasn't influential around the world.

Coz that was the very point the author mentioned which is being debated here?

 

[honestbharani]

Anyone seen that video floating around facebook of the guy in slip who dropped a sitter than took a screamer next ball? Amazing video.

I would link it but don't want to log into FB at work



How could we forget this superstar

way to miss the context.

 

[honestbharani]

There've been dozens of off spinners with dodgy looking actions bowling the doosra post Saqlain/Murali. They revived the lost art of off spin imo.

Nah just the doosra... Unless you were not inspired towards offspin by how easy and cool Carl Hooper made it look.

 

[honestbharani]

yeah but most of us don't really care about that cricket

Cute..

 

[honestbharani]

You can see Warne's influence today with Smith and Warner's actions. It's just instinct to try and bowl like Warne, right down to the lazy walk up to the crease, when having a go at leg spin. It's now synonymous with him

And I am sure Smith and Warner are the only two leg spinners going around in world cricket too.

 

[honestbharani]

no need for sarcasm ***** jeez. was just agreeing with jedi and adding a further point.


look, when i say 'leg spin' i feel everyones name jumps to Warne. He's the biggest household name. I dont know much about Asian kids but considering how Brett Lee is treated over there I wouldn't be surprised if Warne was well loved and imitated by young kids learning leg spin too, maybe none who made the national team but whatever

maybe he wasnt the sole reviver of the art but he was the leader, or the face of the revival. IMO


and maybe it wasnt completely dead by the time he arrived on the scene, but it was at least dying. one renowned leg spin in qadir hardly changes that. he also doesnt have that great a record. but thats not what im debating either

do you even have any idea what the word "world cricket" means? Unless you can point out that there were no legspinners at all in world cricket before Warne got famous, your point is just as stupid as your posts on this matter have been.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Jesus hb learn to multiquote at least

 

[honestbharani]

and you learn to understand the context while posting.

 

[Daemon]

Anyone seen that video floating around facebook of the guy in slip who dropped a sitter than took a screamer next ball? Amazing video.

I would link it but don't want to log into FB at work



How could we forget this superstar

Brilliant clip. Gotta love when the overweight middle age guys pull off stunners.

 

[mr_mister]

God you've got quite the ego don't you honestb

I can't think of many super famous leg spinners other than qadir in the decades leading up to the Warne era. I know Mushy and kumble debuted before him but it's all the same era. So yeah that was the point I was getting at.

Anyway you need to learn how to discuss something without making personal attacks

 

[honestbharani]

God you've got quite the ego don't you honestb

I can't think of many super famous leg spinners other than qadir in the decades leading up to the Warne era. I know Mushy and kumble debuted before him but it's all the same era. So yeah that was the point I was getting at.

Anyway you need to learn how to discuss something without making personal attacks

Where?

And dude, you are the one who has been going on saying there was nothing wrong in what Berry wrote. And a number of posters here have proven, with ample evidence, that it was not just wrong but totally biased views being passed off as facts. And your response has been to keep saying "but he revived leg spin in Australia" which not one person here has actually denied. I would love to say any of your posts were on point but they were not and that is why I called them stupid.

 

[cnerd123]

I think he gets the point.

It's not wrong to say Warne was the most popular legspinner to ever play the game. He's arguably the greatest spinner of all time.

But to say he single-handedly revived a dying art when there were several influential Asian practitioners of it around before and during his era (We haven't even spoken of older bowlers like Siva, Chandra, Hirwani, Gupte, etc who captured the imagination of a whole generation of young Indian cricketers) is straight up disrespectful and narrow sighted.

Similarly, to say Bill O Reilly is the only post-war bowler who can compare to him...urgh

 

[OverratedSanity]

Siva captured no one's imagination unless you had a fetish for the head-dipped-in-a-bucket-of-oil look.

You guys suck. Mentioning Paul ****ing Strang and LSK when there are so many other leg spinners who were actually influential before and during Warne's career.