Pick your bowler for these situations

[subshakerz]

Who is the ideal bowler for these scenarios

- Facing Allan Border on a cracked deteriorating Sabina Park wicket

- Facing Sehwag on a dead, flat Multan wicket

- Facing Rahul Dravid on a Headingley overcast wicket

- Facing Lara on a dusty Chennai wicket

- Facing Ponting on an Adelaide batting paradise

 

[Thala_0710]

Who is the ideal bowler for these scenarios

- Facing Allan Border on a cracked deteriorating Sabina Park wicket

- Facing Sehwag on a dead, flat Multan wicket

- Facing Rahul Dravid on a Headingley overcast wicket

- Facing Lara on a dusty Chennai wicket

- Facing Ponting on an Adelaide batting paradise

Ambrose
Imran
Mcgrath
Kumble
Bumrah

 

[subshakerz]

Ambrose
Bumrah
Steyn
Kumble
Mcgrath

Steyn can't control the duke well so not sure about Headingley.

 

[Thala_0710]

Steyn can't control the duke well so not sure about Headingley.

Yeah making changes

 

[Johan]

- If it's the fast Sabina Park of Old, then just about any great pacer gets it done, but Dale Steyn.

- you need something out of the box, so Imran with his reverse swing.

- Dravid's kryptonite was awkward or inconsistent bounce, so Joel Garner.

- You need someone who can make something of dead wickets, spin isn't getting Lara, Michael Holding was awesome on dead pitches and has the absolute pace, so probably him.

- Sydney Barnes, won't bowl fast and hard like Ponting likes but he's basically playing someone with all the tricks of swingers and spinners + combo of the tricks, he'd get out.

 

[Thala_0710]

- If it's the fast Sabina Park of Old, then just about any great pacer gets it done, but Dale Steyn.

- you need something out of the box, so Imran with his reverse swing.

- Dravid's kryptonite was awkward or inconsistent bounce, so Joel Garner.

- You need someone who can make something of dead wickets, spin isn't getting Lara, Michael Holding was awesome on dead pitches and has the absolute pace, so probably him.

- Sydney Barnes, won't bowl fast and hard like Ponting likes but he's basically playing someone with all the tricks of swingers and spinners + combo of the tricks, he'd get out.

Agree with the first 3 ones, but Lara himself admitted, and his record reflects that, spinners who didn't give it much air troubled him, because he wasn't able to use his feet against them. As brilliant as holding was, I'll go Kumble.
With the last one, Bumrah has the similar skill set of all swingers and variations. Would be fascinating to see Punter vs Boom at their primes

 

[Johan]

Agree with the first 3 ones, but Lara himself admitted, and his record reflects that, spinners who didn't give it much air troubled him, because he wasn't able to use his feet against them. As brilliant as holding was, I'll go Kumble.

Just have more faith in Holding to get Lara than I've in Kumble whom I've seen look toothless against far lesser batters, I'm sure their is a slight flaw there, like Sachin against off spin or Ponting against spinners that extract bounce, but I think Lara would be able to adapt.

 

[subshakerz]

- If it's the fast Sabina Park of Old, then just about any great pacer gets it done, but Dale Steyn.

- you need something out of the box, so Imran with his reverse swing.

- Dravid's kryptonite was awkward or inconsistent bounce, so Joel Garner.

- You need someone who can make something of dead wickets, spin isn't getting Lara, Michael Holding was awesome on dead pitches and has the absolute pace, so probably him.

- Sydney Barnes, won't bowl fast and hard like Ponting likes but he's basically playing someone with all the tricks of swingers and spinners + combo of the tricks, he'd get out.

I would kind of try Barnes in Chennai where the dusty wicket could make him unplayable with his cutters. Or Chandra.

 

[Thala_0710]

Just have more faith in Holding to get Lara than I've in Kumble whom I've seen look toothless against far lesser batters, I'm sure their is a slight flaw there, like Sachin against off spin or Ponting against spinners that extract bounce, but I think Lara would be able to adapt.

But he didn't do that well in his career though against India. In 17 matches against India, he only avged 34.5, despite playing majority of his games at home. He got out to a variety of bowlers with Kumble being the chief tormentor with 5. Actually troubled him more too than the 5 wkts reflect.

 

[Johan]

But he didn't do that well in his career though against India. In 17 matches against India, he only avged 34.5, despite playing majority of his games at home. He got out to a variety of bowlers with Kumble being the chief tormentor with 5. Actually troubled him more too than the 5 wkts reflect.

Lara did played a mighty fine knock against Kumble at St Lucia though, stopping the certain defeat, meanwhile I've mever really seen him play against someone like Donald, He is facing someone with far more bounce and pace than Donald, these things aren't really pitch dependent and thus I feel like Holding would just be more penetrative than Kumble, I also think Holding is more penetrative than any spinner ever bar the obvious two also, much harder to just block out.

 

[subshakerz]

But he didn't do that well in his career though against India. In 17 matches against India, he only avged 34.5, despite playing majority of his games at home. He got out to a variety of bowlers with Kumble being the chief tormentor with 5. Actually troubled him more too than the 5 wkts reflect.

I would be interested if he experiences even more problems with Chandrasekhar than he did with Kumble and Saqlain.

 

[subshakerz]

Lara did played a mighty fine knock against Kumble at St Lucia though, stopping the certain defeat, meanwhile I've mever really seen him play against someone like Donald, He is facing someone with far more bounce and pace than Donald, these things aren't really pitch dependent and thus I feel like Holding would just be more penetrative than Kumble, I also think Holding is more penetrative than any spinner ever bar the obvious two also, much harder to just block out.

Honestly on a Indian dusty wicket if you are doing a pacer, better one who is good with cutters.

 

[Thala_0710]

If I had to pick 1 bowler for all 5 conditions, I'd probably pick Bumrah

 

[Johan]

Marshall for me

 

[DrWolverine]

1. Marshall or Holding
2. Imran with bottle cap & biased umpire or Steyn
3. Ambrose or Garner
4. Donald or Lillee
5.Hadlee or Bumrah

 

[govinda indian fan]

1.ambrose
2.imran or wasim
3. Hadlee
4. Ashwin or chandra
5.bumrah or Marshall

 

[Migara]

- Facing Allan Border on a cracked deteriorating Sabina Park wicket - Malcolm Marshall

- Facing Sehwag on a dead, flat Multan wicket - Mohammed Asif

- Facing Rahul Dravid on a Headingley overcast wicket - Muralitharan

- Facing Lara on a dusty Chennai wicket - Saqlain Mushtaq / Anil Kumble

- Facing Ponting on an Adelaide batting paradise - Richard Hadlee

 

[Migara]

Honestly on a Indian dusty wicket if you are doing a pacer, better one who is good with cutters.

You must be thinking about a certain Malcolm Marshall

 

[subshakerz]

You must be thinking about a certain Malcolm Marshall

Yes. Even McGrath.