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Another Round of Team Trades

capt_Luffy

International Coach
For comparison, Murali in first 21 matches averages 29.6. Home 27.8, away 31.9.
Herath Home 31.3, away 45.9

There is absolutely nothing much between the two. The evidence is supportive that if Herath bowled in 00s, with no Murali around, he' likely to end up with 600 wickets with pretty good home average.
So..... 3.5 at Home is nothing?? Not even gonna mention away. All I will say had Herath been that Good, he would have partnered Murali in the 2000s itself.
 

Sliferxxxx

State Vice-Captain
Imran, player to player wise is better than Murali. He would walk in to any team as a starting candidate. However I don't think he would add much to captaincy over Jayawardane or Sangakkara. In addition, Imran provides what SL lacks. quality express bowling. SL had many spinners, 4 - 5 with similar quality to Herath. Herath and Diluwan Perera could easily replace Murali at least on home turf. See now with Imran, we could play five bowlers. On the other hand if you ask 80s WI the question, they would kill for Murali over any player, including Viv or Marshall, because that is what they lacked.
We would not choose Murali over Marshall please give up on that fallacy. We lacked a spinner but it didn't change our fortunes. Marshall is a better bowler and batsman than Murali period. Maybe Murali might replace one of the lesser bowlers like Walsh but not the leader/spearhead.
 

Coronis

Hall of Fame Member
idiots like you don't have enough brain capacity to understand and analyze the complex context and team dynamics.

Srick to player vs player simple comarisons. You don't belong here.
“Lets ignore away” Very complex. You’re losing 2 WPM away, and the wickets you are getting are costing 20 runs more each. Imran’s not making that up.
 

vidiq

State 12th Man
Yasir Shah>Shane Warne?

And yeah, Blind Stats without context do lie, almost all the time.
The guy who avgs 25+ at home with the ball? Yeah, the stats aren't lying. The interpreter is.
Capt Luffy said no one comes close to Murali even at home pitches which is absolutely wrong,
as prabhath Jayasuriya is way more lethal (in terms of wpm) than Murali after the same number of matches Jayasuriya has played till now.
 

sayon basak

Cricketer Of The Year
Capt Luffy said no one comes close to Murali even at home pitches which is absolutely wrong,
as prabhath Jayasuriya is way more lethal (in terms of wpm) than Murali after the same number of matches Jayasuriya has played till now.
He gets more wickets, not because he is lethal, just because he bowls a lot.

And yeah, Murali was a bit poor early on, but what's the point? Are you gonna ignore his stats later on?
 

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