Best ever English spinner?

[Starfighter]

Having a round arm makes it difficult to judge the flight. You can spin the ball bit more and with the angle, arm ball gets much more effective as well. Will create the angle for lefties and will allow wicket to wicket bowling against right handers. It allows elbow to be kept more straight. Many advantages.

I think the biggest issue is it's harder to topspin the ball. Tayfield took a lot of wickets on the pitches in SA that Laker had a bit of trouble on. From the film I've seen he seemed to be bowling much more over the top, with a bit more dip and more topspin.

 

[Jack1]

the poll is ten years old, at that point Swann had played a few ODIs and taken 50 county championship wickets in a season once

Didn't expect a 10 year old thread to be alive tbh

 

[Migara]

I think the biggest issue is it's harder to topspin the ball. Tayfield took a lot of wickets on the pitches in SA that Laker had a bit of trouble on. From the film I've seen he seemed to be bowling much more over the top, with a bit more dip and more topspin.

True, all these can become counter productive on a bouncy surface where top spin is needed.

 

[Starfighter]

Didn't expect a 10 year old thread to be alive tbh

A massive zebra has been on a decadal thread bumping spree recently.

 

[a massive zebra]

A massive zebra has been on a decadal thread bumping spree recently.

A spree of two threads!

 

[cnerd123]

Laker, Verity, Briggs, Rhodes is how I voted in the Top 20 spinners poll, although now I want to reconsider placing Rhodes so low.

Not sure what to make of Swann in comparison TBF. I think I left him out entirely but would like to reconsider that too.