Of course, Lillee played only a single test in the W.I., and that with injury, whereas Walsh played 25 in Australia.
Who says it's the exception? It was just an example. I haven't run the numbers but for bowlers I doubt that overseas stats are much, if at all, worse than home stats on average.
I think you're gonna be in for a surprise there.
I was thinking of "d" word, but, then you have been fair, so no need of it.
Hadlee. I guess, Murali will have a truckload of Silver performances, by which he scores quite a number of points.
Meh, only shows the insecurities you have.
It's a lot to do with strike rate. Anderson struck at a better rate than Courtney. Ashwin better than both.
Asian pacers knew how to bowl on home tracks. For example Vaas was a fine exponent of using slow low pitches to his advantage. He swung it in to right handers and if hit on pad, usually that will result in an LBW because of low bounce. Then later in the innings he reverse swung (once again low bounce helps here), and bowled cutters. But on quicker bouncier pitches Vaas found it wanting because his stock ball kept bouncing over the stumps. This was the case in Australia, SAF and England. But against same oppositions at home Vaas has some scything spells of swing bowling. Even pacemen are product of their environments. So we may find some seamers doing well on their tracks, despite being unresponsive.
I remember Adams' stonewalling from that series, we called him Padams.
Within the bounds of this analysis it's better to be a lone gun. PPI ends up too low when you have competition. See the difference between Herath (average 28) and the recent WI players (average low 20s).
