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And Jadeja averages 4 more than Wardle ... but I'll still stick with my voting rather than abstain.
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CW's Ranking of Spinners (Tests)
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ataraxia
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Averages smaverages. Jadeja's a gun, but he has benefited from playing a significant number of games on spin-friendly surfaces and his average is no more reflective of his actual value than Swann's or Lyon's.
I'd put Jadeja above a few of those on the list, but it isn't farcical for him to not be on there.
I'd put Jadeja above a few of those on the list, but it isn't farcical for him to not be on there.
honestbharani
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Jadeja
harsh.ag
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Wardle. Trumble. Ironmonger. Blythe. Lock.
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Might as well add Boland and Axar.
Line and Length
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A rather pointless comparison. Trumble, Lock and Wardle all have over 100 wickets. Even Ironmonger, with his relatively brief career, has more wickets than Boland and Axar combined.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Yeah, agree with this. I think it was more farcical had he not been voted into the allrounders list when he was.
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Dennis Lillee should not be in the top 30 or so pacers then.
Fuller Pilch
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That's silly considering he was the world's best fast bowler in an era of great fast bowling.
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Trumble
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Except for Lock, Jadeja also has more wickets that any two of those combined. So, it is not a pointless comparison.
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Its fine guys. I should not have said that it is a farce. Vote as you will. It is my personal decision to abstain. We need not discuss this anymore as there is no point to it.
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Jadeja
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Gupte gets a bit overrated IMO. Lots of anecdotes saying he's gun but doesn't have numbers to back them up. If not for his wickets against NZ (the newest and weakest team in the world at the time) he'd average above 30. Shouldn't be in the Top 20. I'd even have Jadeja or Harbhajan above him.
A lot of the great early SA googly bowlers were mainly one-trick ponies. Revolutionized cricket but hard to call any of them a proper well-rounded spinner, Faulkner probably the best and most consistent of the lot. Easy to leave them out at this stage of voting.
Wardle's good but has a small body of work.
I do abstain from rating Lock and Saeed Ajmal due to chucking.
It's tough picking who will round of the Top 20. Some names not mentioned yet but worthy of being in the convo are Qadir, Prassana, Ramadhin, Trumble and Qasim.
A lot of the great early SA googly bowlers were mainly one-trick ponies. Revolutionized cricket but hard to call any of them a proper well-rounded spinner, Faulkner probably the best and most consistent of the lot. Easy to leave them out at this stage of voting.
Wardle's good but has a small body of work.
I do abstain from rating Lock and Saeed Ajmal due to chucking.
It's tough picking who will round of the Top 20. Some names not mentioned yet but worthy of being in the convo are Qadir, Prassana, Ramadhin, Trumble and Qasim.
