Murali' bowling >>>. Jadeja as full package
I had my reservations w.r.t Murali because of the strong chucking accusations ' against him. WRT this topic, I once again went thru some
online clippings and associated messages, especially that brace test and all. Watched the remarks of Steve Waugh, Ian Chappel too .
From all these , I am being forced to change my opinion w.r.t the legality of his action.
Another important factor I could trace out when I dissected stats once again has been that , there is a convincingly big gap between Murali's & Jadeja's abroad averages that too with huge difference in longevity. Abroad average is one thing to which I give lots of weightage when compared to home average. And hence I am forced to change my opinion and accept that Murali was a convincingly better bowler to Jadeja
Again I don't agree at all with your ' Murali' bowling >>>. Jadeja as full package ' pure emotional reaction. This is because Jadeja can provide almost 36 runs to team total also apart from his bowling performances. So Jadeja still is better as a full package for me.
Having said that , based on the fact that 'Murali was a convincingly better bowler to Jadeja' I am forced to replace Jadeja with Murali in my eleven
because 'spinner slot ' is specialist position in the team.
My updated test eleven is as follows.
Gavaskar
Sehwag
Dravid
Sachin
Sangakkara
Laxman
Pant(wk)
Kapil Dev(c)
Akram
Bumrah
Muralitharan