Once again the "world revolves around Australia" stuff. Leg spin is damn hard yes. But wrist spun off breaks are much more harder to bowl, in the sense that you have to be a bio mechanical freak like Erapali Prasanna or Muralitharan to do so.
Still got smashed by Australia, SL or India, who had quality spinners in the rank.
In India, they are same, in fact Warne's is slightly better. However he never had ran through an Indian side as Murali has done once or twice in India and many times in SL.
At a social gathering involving some journalists and a number of English players after the second day's of the first Ashes Test in 1948, Bill O'Reilly devised a strategy whereby Alec Bedser would target inswingers at Bradman's stumps with Len Hutton waiting for a catch at backward short leg. In the second over of the third morning, Bradman leg glanced a Bedser inswinger and Len Hutton, positioned at backward short leg, did not have to move. In the second innings, Bradman was held scoreless for nine balls, before receiving an inswinger from Bedser. Again, Bradman leg glanced and, for the first time in his career, was dismissed for a duck in England - caught Hutton at backward short leg, bowled Bedser.
Jackie Hendriks was also selected by Garry Sobers when he was asked by The Cricketer to select his all time West Indies XI in 1996.
This guy takes the crown for mental gymnastics
I've never done it on small slices and I only use stats like this when a player has a decent sample size. Somewhere in the vicinity of ten tests played in a country or against an opponent is good.
You've pretty much just proved the point I was making with my post in the weirdest roundabout way.
I'm bored so here's a team to play you, all personal faves of mine:
Good to see Ames in there. A very lively side.
Plus Murali is decidedly the better bowler against India. He has 7 fivers and 2 tenfers against India and won 2 MoMs. Warne had only 1 inconsequential fiver. It's comforting to think if Warne had played against India in SL he could have racked up some 5-6 fivers. We all know however that he wouldn't have. (Talk of mental gymnastics)
You don't count first grade stats alongside test stats so you might as well remove Bangladesh and Zimbabwe from Murali's stats.
You are deluded that I have proven your point and now it seems world is revolving around you fr a change. Leg spin is not the most difficult art. There are so many legspinners in sub continent as bowlers and it was never the rarest. Wrist spun off breaks are difficult, and any one who suggests it is as same as orthodox off breaks, has absolutely no idea of the dynamics of the bowling action and how it behaves through the air. There is no drift to work with, like in orthodox off breaks, and you cannot develop and orthodox slider (non spinning ball) as well. That art needs special skills like express fast bowling. Wrist spun off breaks is a different craft altogther, and Murali and Prasanna have mastered it in the past.
