Lmao @ the gassing up of laker and verity. You need to be a light skinned player from the black and white footage era to escape every criticism modern cricketers get. Truly shameful how obvious these posters biases are.
You’re right, I should just ignore any players who didn’t play with colour TV. In fact we all should.
he is probably the best finger spinner to play in australia in a long time
noobs do not realize how tough it is for foreign spinners
In the colour tv era (1968 onwards, min 20 wickets):
Touring spinners in Australia..
Underwood 50 @ 31.48 1 5’fer
Kumble 49 @ 37.73 4 5’fers
Gibbs 40 @ 39.37 2 5’fers
Ashwin 39 @ 42.15 0 5’fers
Vettori 37 @ 40.18 3 5’fers
Miller 36 @ 22.47 1 5’fer
Bedi 35 @ 27.51 3 5’fers
Emburey 35 @ 32.11 2 5’fers
Chandrasekhar 28 @ 25.14 3 5’fers
Kaneria 24 @ 40.58 3 5’fers
Yadav 23 @ 28.13 1 5’fer
Ahmed 22 @ 33.59 2 5’fers
Swann 22 @ 52.59 1 5’fer
Qasim 21 @ 29.00 0 5’fers
Prasanna 21 @ 31.19 1 5’fer
It is tough, but Ashwin makes it look tougher than it really is.