Well no, because we've accepted that they didn't maintain the standard for a long period. That's not in question afaic so speculation is irrelevant.
Yeah, Bond decreased his average in his final test with 8/153 at the age of 34.
well for the purposes of the discussion i don't think what harris did at domestic level in 2004 particularly factors in for mine tbf
Wait if you take out bad performances, your record gets better? no way get out of here get the hell out
Hey, Andreson?
India 2002 wasn't too bad on paper (although pretty bad on grass).
He rocked them in Odi's in ways that noone in those times could think about doing even in their wildest dreams - he was just too sensational due to those performances.
Asif was a pure seam bowler, wasn't he? Never watched him bowl conventional swing.
Nah he could focus on either depending on the conditions. That's what made him so h4x.
Most of his spells in youtube are full of leg and off cutters, like McGrath but slightly fuller in length.
I think had potential to be even better in the modern era than McGrath because of his tendency to bowl really full and target the stumps in an era where batsmen do not have the best defensive tendencies.
When did batsman start batting out of their crease against Abbas? I've just looked at his test match list, and the wickets appear to have dried up at the start of the New Zealand series in 2018. His record since then is represented in the filtered numbers.
Those are leg cutters I presume.