Peak Shoaib vs Peak Johnson

[subshakerz]

Tbf Johnson at his best smashed two very good batting lineups.

Yes. On a sporting wicket, I dont think there is a bowler I rate better for destructive best.

But in the 2nd test of the 2014 SA series, he was neutralised by a slow pitch even though he was peak. And months later he couldnt replicate his magic in the UAE. Hence I hesitate.

 

[subshakerz]

I know there are technically better spells from Johnson, but this Durban spell will always be my favorite.

2 wickets in the first over, then he injuries both Smith and Kallis, and finally bowls a wonderful unplayable inswinging yorker to Boucher to round off the session, all over 90 MPH. I've never seen someone do that to Kallis.

 

[Coronis]

I know there are technically better spells from Johnson, but this Durban spell will always be my favorite.

2 wickets in the first over, then he injuries both Smith and Kallis, and finally bowls a wonderful unplayable inswinging yorker to Boucher to round off the session, all over 90 MPH. I've never seen someone do that to Kallis.

Nobody puts Kallis in a corner.

 

[Coronis]

He was against NZ around 2002/2003.

I would also say his series against England on batting wickets in Pakistan in 2005 was top drawer.

Key

 

[subshakerz]

Key

Well he blew out an ATG Aus side in the same period in a spell too on a dead wicket.

 

[BazBall21]

Yes. On a sporting wicket, I dont think there is a bowler I rate better for destructive best.

But in the 2nd test of the 2014 SA series, he was neutralised by a slow pitch even though he was peak. And months later he couldnt replicate his magic in the UAE. Hence I hesitate.

Yeah Johnson can't compete with Shoaib in Asia, but Johnson is much better in the southern hemisphere.

 

[Coronis]

Well he blew out an ATG Aus side in the same period in a spell too on a dead wicket.

Why bother mentioning the New Zealand thing then lol

 

[subshakerz]

Why bother mentioning the New Zealand thing then lol

Because the Aussie one was already mentioned earlier.

 

[subshakerz]

Yeah Johnson can't compete with Shoaib in Asia, but Johnson is much better in the southern hemisphere.

Well I would expect Shoaib to be more of an occasional danger in the southern hemisphere than Johnson in Asia.

Here is early career Shoaib blasting through a SA lineup through sheer pace.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Well I would expect Shoaib to be more of an occasional danger in the southern hemisphere than Johnson in Asia.

Here is early career Shoaib blasting through an entire SA lineup through sheer pace.

My favorite version of Shoaib, the first two years on the international stage before the roids and obsession with weights took over. Lean, strapping, athletic, and very fast. Probably became a more skillful bowler later on but the action degenerated and it never felt as effortless.

 

[subshakerz]

My favorite version of Shoaib, the first two years on the international stage before the roids and obsession with weights took over. Lean, strapping, athletic, and very fast. Probably became a more skillful bowler later on but the action degenerated and it never felt as effortless.

Yeah. He was a spring around this time whereas later more of a ball and chain.

He also had that excellent test in Calcutta.

 

[BazBall21]

Well I would expect Shoaib to be more of an occasional danger in the southern hemisphere than Johnson in Asia.

Here is early career Shoaib blasting through a SA lineup through sheer pace.

He was better in the southern hemisphere than Johnson was in Asia

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

I know there are technically better spells from Johnson, but this Durban spell will always be my favorite.

2 wickets in the first over, then he injuries both Smith and Kallis, and finally bowls a wonderful unplayable inswinging yorker to Boucher to round off the session, all over 90 MPH. I've never seen someone do that to Kallis.

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[OverratedSanity]

Tbf Johnson at his best smashed two very good batting lineups.

Shoaib's spell against a Australia lineup at Colombo is one of the most exciting phases of play I've seen.

 

[number11]

Both awesome but Akhtar had that bit extra. 45 odd tests is not an insignificant career. Was the most exciting thing in cricket for a decade.