Battle of The Spinners

[BoyBrumby]

And Bedi wasn't?

home 30 10391 3287 137 7/98 23.99 1.89 75.8 8 0
away 37 10973 4350 129 6/127 33.72 2.37 85.0 6 1

TBF Kumble averages something like 36 away from the featherbeds of home, so the difference is obviously greater.

 

[silentstriker]

TBF Kumble averages something like 36 away from the featherbeds of home, so the difference is obviously greater.

Since 2002, he averages around 33. And even discounting his away averages, Kumble has still won us more games (or kept it to a draw) more than Bedi did.

Also has a much better strike rate, and takes more wickets (lots of ten-fors compared to Bedi).

 

[chaminda_00]

Kumble - 10
Bedi - 5
Kline - 0

 

[chaminda_00]

Round One: Battle Fifteen

Colin Blythe (SLA)
19 Tests, 100 wkts @ 18.63, 9 5-fers, 4 10-fers, 45.46 SR, 2.45 ER

Ashley Mallett (OS)
38 Tests, 132 wkts @ 29.84, 6 5-fers, 1 10-fer, 75.68 SR, 2.36 ER

Johnny Briggs (SLA)
33 Tests, 118 wkts @ 17.75, 9 5-fers, 4 10-fers, 45.18 SR, 2.35 ER

 

[cameeel]

Mallet

 

[adharcric]

Blythe

 

[shortpitched713]

Briggs. Interesting battle this one, with all three being possibly good choices, although I'd be inclined to be cautious about Blythe since he only played 19 Tests.

 

[Dravid]

Briggs

 

[Perm]

Johnny Briggs

 

[grecian]

Toss up between Briggs and Blythe TBH.

I just go briggs

YES, btw.

 

[oz_fan]

Blythe and Briggs have very similar records. I'll go with Blythe.

 

[a massive zebra]

Blythe, one of the most classical and aesthetically pleasing of all left arm spinners.

Briggs suffered from epilepsy and was more of an allrounder than an out and out bowler as his batting average and wickets per match ratio shows.

 

[The Sean]

Blythe

Given the brilliance of Briggs' average and strike rate, his wickets/Test ratio is quite low, indicating he didn't do as much bowling as you might expect a guy of his stats to have done.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Blythe.

(both suffered from epilepsy, tho.)

 

[chaminda_00]

Update: Bythe 4, Briggs 4, Mallet 1

AMZ are you voting foe Bythe or Briggs? Very surprised that people are going away from the trend of voting for modern players over older players.

 

[adharcric]

Very surprised that people are going away from the trend of voting for modern players over older players.

People may have a modern bias, but they're not idiots.
It has to at least be close for people to favor the modern cricketer; Briggs and Blythe are miles ahead of the other guy in this case.

 

[chaminda_00]

People may have a modern bias, but they're not idiots.
It has to at least be close for people to favor the modern cricketer; Briggs and Blythe are miles ahead of the other guy in this case.

One could say the same thing about a few other battle that involved similar players from that era with modern players. But the general trend has been for modern players. Even if the other player averages 12 or more better and played a decent number of matches i.e the Prassana and Peel battle. Prassana record is not much better then Mallett, outside the fact that he played more games and Peel record is better then Blythe but harder got any votes. Oh well i guess there was other factors.

Bythe and Briggs tied, so i vote Briggs, he goes through to next round

 

[chaminda_00]

Round One: Battle Sixteen

Bill O'Reilly (LS)
27 Tests, 144 wkts @ 22.59, 11 5-fers, 3 10-fers, 69.81 SR, 1.94 ER

Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (LS)
58 Tests, 242 wkts @ 29.74, 16 5-fers, 2 10-fers, 65.86 SR, 2.70 ER

Lance Gibbs (OS)
79 Tests, 309 wkts @ 29.09, 18 5-fers, 2 10-fers, 87.75 SR, 1.98 ER

For those who haven't been voting and just viewing the thread, i suggest you vote this round as this battle could have a major impact on the winner of the whole thing

 

[BoyBrumby]

Has to be O'Reilly, better judges than me have called him the best ever.

 

[silentstriker]

Not the best ever, but the best of this bunch.

O'Reilly