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Battle of The Spinners

Perm

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Johnny Wardle, while Wilfred Rhodes was probably the better bowler Wardle was better at test level for various reasons.
 
chaminda_00

chaminda_00

Hall of Fame Member
grecian said:
Rhodes

First-class record is incomparable, and as others have said his bowling prime may not have coincided with test cricket.

Wardles also one of the triumvirate of great Yorkshire SLAs, and by many accounts should of played ahead of Lock in many test matches, but Wilfred wins out.
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I don't really think Wardle FC career is not comparable. Wardle average was only 2 runs less, which was because he played on less sticky wickets and his wicket per match were pretty much the same as Rhodes. If he played as many games as Rhodes i would be surprised if he didn't take a similar amount of wickets.

Wardle by a fair amount for me.
 
Goughy

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
chaminda_00 said:
Still an offie, he just bowls them left handed.
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NO. An offie is someone that turns the ball from the off stump to the leg ie thats where the name comes from. Hence the term SLA or left arm orthadox. They may bowl in the same style as a right armed offie but they turn the ball from the leg and cannot be classed as an offie and therefore have their own terms.

Very different.
 
shortpitched713

shortpitched713

International Captain
Semantics really. What if the batsman was a left-hander. Then the SLA would be an offie, and the offie would be a . . . . . SRA?!

Whatever, the current terminology is effective, but not neccessarily intuitive.
 
Dasa

Dasa

International Vice-Captain
shortpitched713 said:
Semantics really. What if the batsman was a left-hander. Then the SLA would be an offie, and the offie would be a . . . . . SRA?!

Whatever, the current terminology is effective, but not neccessarily intuitive.
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Easier just to refer to them as wrist-spinners or finger-spinners.

Anyway, Wardle.
 
oz_fan

oz_fan

International Regular
Close call between Valentine and Faulkner. I'll go with Valentine. Even though he has a much higher SR he managed to take double the amount of 5 fer's that Faulkner took as well as two 10 wicket matches in only 11 more tests.
 
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