Battle of The Spinners

[PhoenixFire]

Move onto the next battle, Mankad doesn't really stand a chance.

 

[Dasa]

Move on, no chance for an upset in this round I think.

 

[oz_fan]

Yeah move onto the next battle. Can't see Mankad getting any votes at all.

 

[chaminda_00]

Round 2: Battle 3

Johnny Wardle (SLA/SLC)
28 Tests, 102 wkts @ 20.39, 5 5-fers, 1 10-fers, 64.67 SR, 1.89 ER

Anil Kumble (LS)
111 Tests, 538 wkts @ 28.59, 33 5-fers, 8 10-fers, 65.09 SR, 2.63 ER

 

[PhoenixFire]

Wardle

 

[oz_fan]

Kumble

 

[Dasa]

Kumble.

 

[adharcric]

Kumble

 

[Ikki]

Kumble.

 

[cameeel]

Wardle - Kumble plays a lot of cricket on custom-made spinning sub continental wickets.

 

[The Sean]

Kumble

Though with figures like that, it's surprising Wardle doesn't have a bigger rep.

 

[adharcric]

Kumble

Though with figures like that, it's surprising Wardle doesn't have a bigger rep.

Having those figures in that era means a lot less than it would in this era.

 

[chaminda_00]

Having those figures in that era means a lot less than it would in this era.

Not really its not like every spin bowler averaged in the low 20s, in that era, most averaged in the high 20s or 30s like the current era.

 

[The Sean]

Having those figures in that era means a lot less than it would in this era.

A fair point, but it's not as though every other spinner in that era was averaging 20!

 

[adharcric]

My bad guys, I got Wardle mixed up with someone from way back in the day (turn of the century) when it wasn't anything special to average 20 with the ball. Still, Kumble.

 

[Poker Boy]

Kumble - wvwn though Wardle must be England's most under-rated spinned because he played in the same era as Laker and Lock (a sort of English Stuart MacGill)

 

[a massive zebra]

Wardle fairly comfortably for me. He was far less reliant on the conditions for his effectiveness.

 

[silentstriker]

Kumble

 

[BoyBrumby]

I fairly certain that Wardle is the only entrant in this battle to have played Minor Counties for Cambridgeshire, so gets my vote for that alone.

It's hard to compare the two really; by all accounts Wardle sounds the more gifted bowler but Kumble has had a wonderful career.

 

[chaminda_00]

Kumble 7, Wardle 4