There are quite a few footages of O'Reilly, maybe he likes his action or something. (or maybe the stats or the peer rating, it can be anything) I myself like to watch highlights of Qadir and Underwood, so that could mean they are my favorite, although I haven't watched them live.
That’s enough. For a second I thought you were old enough to have watched him play.
Barnes played between 1901-1914. He was the best bowler of his era. No doubts about it.
What?? As a freakshow?
Are Chinaman bowlers handicapped?
I still rated him quite highly; top 26/27 maybe.
Technicalities indeed. Ryan Harris once made it swing and seam two ways over 22 yards too, doesn't mean he knew what he was doing. To make an article of faith out of something improbable that's been passed down as lore over a hundred years is naive.
Isn’t that the same with Barnes?
Barnes' opponent weren't nearly as weak.
Mustafizur only bowled off cutter (I had only seen him bowl leg cutter once in test, and you know, more than half of his back of the hand deliveries ended up as a beamer). That was not the case with Barnes, who could swing and seam the ball, before it became a thing.
I acknowledge that they were the best team that Lohmann played against. But they were definitely weak "compared to Barnes' era", weren't they?
Aus wasn’t a weak team. They couldn’t play him.
Yeah what about it?
Now now, age is not a number to be ashamed of.
Age doesn’t necessarily have much to do with favourites. A lot of my favourites (the majority probably) retired before I was born, and a not insignificant number of them would’ve been dead.
Yes the gap is clearly greater