Fuller Pilch
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Underwood
Chandrashekar was much more devastating than Bedi.You are quite right. I stuffed up my calculations. Kumble has 200 wickets away from the SC @ 35.2
My revised rankings are: Bedi=Chandrashekar>Kumble >Ashwin=Jadeja
I'm rating Kumble above Ashwin and Jadeja because of the volume of wickets.
To me, I will always pick Wasim and Warne over say a Murali or an Ambrose in my ATG XIs because I like the additional skillsets they bring to the XI but as pure bowlers, Murali is pretty clearly better than Warne IMO and same with Ambrose and Wasim.
Yes, because especially with bowlers, people make the mistake that the game is only played at one end. The attacks the bowlers were a part of, the type of bowlers they bowled with - they all matter. And ultimately, the stats do not mean you are going to get wickets exactly at that average everytime either. A bowling average difference of 1 or 2 does not matter to me, if the other bowler gives me better variety and a different challenge to the batsmen of the opposition team.But is Wasim's variety (and batting) worth skipping over, let's say 5 better bowling options? Sincere question to you.