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Very Well Said mate "Minus Ammir and Asif"South Africa
England
India
Australia
Sri Lanka (After Murali)
Pakistan (Minus Asif and Amir)
West Indies
New Zealand
Bangladesh
Very Well Said mate "Minus Ammir and Asif"South Africa
England
India
Australia
Sri Lanka (After Murali)
Pakistan (Minus Asif and Amir)
West Indies
New Zealand
Bangladesh
yeah but Pakistan and Australia's fast bowling reserves don't have too much qualityLet's hope so.
But the fast men are fraglie like Zoysa. Vaas was a fitness geek. The current fast bowlers are not as fit as Vaas. SL don't have super performers in the fast bowling ranks, most are depending on rythm and form to excel. Each one needs un interrupted sequence of matches to build up rythm and form, which is not happening at the moment. The example is Thilan Thushara. He had few injuries and now reduced to a 125k-130k trundler, with no bounce at all, losing his rythm. When on song he bowls 140-145k, with steep bounce and bal rushing on the batsmen. It's disappointing as hell when you see your good fast bowlers break down one after another. And SL's depth of fast bowlers are much less than that of Pakistan or Australia, and if four to five top guys get injured, we are left with next to nothing.
DWTA. Australia's fast bowling depth is pretty strong; the problem is the fact that the best 10 or so guys are pretty interchangeable. No-one really stands out. Australia's Third XI fast bowling attack would be the best in the third XI world IMO, not that it's really worthy of a lot of bragging.yeah but Pakistan and Australia's fast bowling reserves don't have too much quality
Aren't you confirming my point??? What quality is there???DWTA. Australia's fast bowling depth is pretty strong; the problem is the fact that the best 10 or so guys are pretty interchangeable. No-one really stands out. Australia's Third XI fast bowling attack would be the best in the third XI world IMO, not that it's really worthy of a lot of bragging.
I definitely think it's quality depth. Quality depth and quality first teamers aren't quite the same thing.Aren't you confirming my point??? What quality is there???
can you please elaborate?I definitely think it's quality depth. Quality depth and quality first teamers aren't quite the same thing.
When you say a team has quality depth, you're only comparing that depth to every other team's depth; not the frontline players around the world. Otherwise instances of quality depth in any team would be very, very rare indeed.can you please elaborate?
Even Pakistan had great depth. Noe Asif and Amir are banned. But you have Shoaib, Gul, Tanvir Ahmed, Sohail Tanvir, Wahab Riyaz in the mix. Then you can alway go back to Naved-ul-Hasan and Rao Ifthikar who were solid performers. Then there may be few other people who are doing well in the domestic line up. But Pakistan also has the symptoms of the disease that SL has. Fast bowlers are woefully unfit.DWTA. Australia's fast bowling depth is pretty strong; the problem is the fact that the best 10 or so guys are pretty interchangeable. No-one really stands out. Australia's Third XI fast bowling attack would be the best in the third XI world IMO, not that it's really worthy of a lot of bragging.
Put it another way, SL has best spin bowling reserves. We can pull out one of Randiv, Senanayake, Herath, Mendis and Bandara to play a test match at any point. But we don't have another Murali or at least a Swann in that mix. All five are pretty similar in performances.When you say a team has quality depth, you're only comparing that depth to every other team's depth; not the frontline players around the world. Otherwise instances of quality depth in any team would be very, very rare indeed.
Australia has one of the best four bowling attacks in the world (third IMO especially if we're only talking quicks, as we are) and their reserve bowlers are all about as good as their first choices, if not better in some cases. Mark Cameron for example is quality depth even if he isn't a quality first choice.
I get the feeling he rates Senanayake the best followed by Randiv, and is annoyed that the "select suckers" do not agree.Migara how would you rate your spinners?
Herath the best followed by Mendis?
OT can't believe SL haven't toured SA since 2002.They will be back at end of the year.
9 years last.
SAD really
At the moment it's Randiv, Senanayake, Herath, A. Mendis, Bandara, Dinuk Hettiarachchi and J. Mendis. Sajeewa Weerakoon and Hettiarachchi etc are approaching the end of their careers. S. Prasanna is another unorthodox spinner worth mentioning.Migara how would you rate your spinners?
Herath the best followed by Mendis?
OT can't believe SL haven't toured SA since 2002.They will be back at end of the year.
9 years last.
SAD really
Here are his statsI get the feeling he rates Senanayake the best followed by Randiv, and is annoyed that the "select suckers" do not agree.
You think Ajantha Mendis is third best at the moment????At the moment it's Randiv, Senanayake, Herath, A. Mendis, Bandara, Dinuk Hettiarachchi and J. Mendis. Sajeewa Weerakoon and Hettiarachchi etc are approaching the end of their careers. S. Prasanna is another unorthodox spinner worth mentioning.
The selectsuckers don't think that way.
I think probably the fourth best. The problem he faces is that his stock delivery is losing potency. I said the exact thing on his debut, that carom ball is going to take toll on his fingers. If he makes the off break his stock ball, he might rise up that ladder.You think Ajantha Mendis is third best at the moment????
SL must have quite a bit of depth in their spin dept indeed. I thought that after a brief rough patch Ajantha was again on the up????