I actually think on turning wickets an accurate spinner would be harder to keep to. Jadeja consistently challenging both edges with natural variation on a responsive pitch, ball after ball, would be exhausting and challenging. Whereas MacGill throwing in wide balls and half-trackers every over would be easier.
Well Ajaz Patel is very accurate. I think keeping to Ish Sodhi's pies would be harder though
Nah, an accurate spinner would allow you to position yourself and move with consistency. You'd also have to move less meaning less fatigue.
In most conditions, yes. On a sharp turning dustbowl, no. Especially when the more accurate ones are quicker through the air.
No. Firstly, inaccurate bowlers are still capable of making the ball skid, so they're still doing the 'challenge both edges thing', but with enormously more uncertainty. Secondly I don't know why you're specifying the accurate bowlers being quick though the air - as with the Bevan example, you get quick inaccurate bowlers, and the faster they are the harder the inaccuracy will be ideal with.
You're not adding anything I've not considered. I've kept a large variety of spin bowlers, including first-class cricketers and 1 or 2 internationals. I'm not saying "I'm right, you're wrong" just pointing out that if I am wrong, it's not because I'm missing something simple like "you have to move more".
Are you sure you weren’t just a crappy keeper?
Definitely wasn't great
Yup he cashed in.
Sectarianism was strong in Aus at that time. The majority of Australians were white and either descended from Irish (Catholics) or English (Protestant/Masons). There was hostility between the two groups. Catholics were more union focussed generally while Protestaht/Masons generally ran their own small/medium businesses. It’s a largely forgotten element of Aus history, Aus wasn’t multicultural then and this was a significant divide as I understand it.
Not really, with the pitches turning as much as they do these days, in Asia, or the uneven bounce there's no telling how much turn/bounce you would get even for the same delivery on the same spot. Pitches in India especially have become much much tougher post 2012/13 in general barring the odd flat deck served up. The biggest thing for me is how the keeper reads the deliveries, in that I'd say over the last 10-15 years Foakes has been the best away keeper I've seen by far! Keeping to good vs bad spinners isn't really an issue for a competent WK & if you ask them it probably doesn't matter/differ much, unless they're serving utter dross or unplayable balls every over.
When I was a kid, I liked to think opposition always thought God Dammit McGrath seeing his name pop up.
Before Don as well they had MaCartney and before him Trumper, both considered the 3rd and 2nd best Aussie bats (Trumper was even sometimes considered no 1) well into the 70s
Yes, you could also start with Clem Hill in 1896 so ATG batting torch has been passed for 128 years. Wondering if this is just an Aussie thing always having an ATG bat in the team?
Could argue for the English to be even older.
England have had some very poor bats being the best batsman in England between Barrington to Root.
