Current Top 20 franchise 4-day bowlers, minimum 15 wickets. Plus notables 20-40. Travis Muller is an anomaly as he hasn't played first team in ages - looks to have jumped ship to NZ this season actually, so may need to be removed. Mothoa I guess is an anomaly too as I've seen him bowl, and how? How can be anything but cannon fodder except on something really sticky from New Zealand.
Cherry-picking: Only left arm quick in top 20 - Beuran; only others in top 40 are Parnell and Rowan Richards, neither of whom I added as notables...
Spinners have a spread of disciplines: Tahir shouldn't be in the running for a test return at his age, Shamsi left-arm wrist is the 2nd statistically, but his lack of penetration so far in international cricket, and our confusion with what to DO with a left-arm wrist spinner seems to limit his opportunities. Incumbent Maharaj is next and is left-arm orthodox. Then Dolphins rival Muthusamy also lefty. Best Righties are Harmer and Piedt, only Piedt is in for selection. Out of top 40 with career average of 34,1 is von Berg, who is IN FORM, and therefore seems to be next cab off the ranks - despite form being averaging worse than his career average... I guess it's WEIGHT of wickets?
# NAME M W AVE S/R 5/10
01 NGIDI 004 020 16,2 32,4 01/0 RF
02 STEYN 021 107 19,5 39,8 07/2 RMF
03 MULLER 006 023 19,7 32,6 02/0 RFM?
04 PHILANDER 060 219 19,8 46,3 08/0 RFM
05 ABBOTT 038 147 20,4 47,0 10/2 RMF
06 MORRIS 022 101 21,0 41,0 01/1 RMF
07 MULDER 012 038 21,5 38,4 01/0 RFM
08 OLIVIER 027 120 23,1 45,3 08/1 RMF
09 RABADA 011 046 24,2 48,1 02/1 RF
10 PRETORIUSD 026 080 24,3 54,3 04/0 RFM
11 TAHIR 041 204 24,7 44,0 16/5 RLS
12 HENDRICKSB 035 120 24,8 44,8 05/0 LMF
13 MCLAREN 055 196 25,5 52,6 09/1 RFM
14 VILJOEN 052 226 25,9 42,9 15/2 RMF
15 MOTHOA 007 017 26,4 63,4 00/0 RM?
16 SHAMSI 016 077 26,5 45,5 05/2 LCS
17 BOKAKO 008 025 26,8 46,8 00/0 RFM?
18 BIRCH 064 203 27,0 54,5 08/0 RFM
19 JAMISON 011 034 27,3 44,1 00/0 RMF?
20 KLEINVELDT 086 245 27,4 59,6 11/1 RMF
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21 PATERSON 042 135 27,6 52,9 04/0 RMF
22 MAHARAJ 034 145 27,8 57,3 11/2 LAS
24 DUPAVILLON 016 053 28,5 49,1 03/0 RMF?
25 SAVAGE 017 045 28,8 52,8 01/0 RMF?
26 DRY 018 048 28,8 56,6 02/0 RMF
27 MUTHUSAMY 018 049 28,9 51,0 01/0 LAS
32 NORTJE 013 045 29,7 50,6 02/0 RMF?
39 HARMER 061 238 32,0 63,0 10/2 ROS
40 PIEDT 008 161 32,8 62,8 09/0 ROS