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Jasprit bumrah vs Wasim Akram

Who is better test bowler

  • Bumrah

    Votes: 8 42.1%

  • Wasim Akram

    Votes: 11 57.9%
  • Total voters
    19
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Randomfan

School Boy/Girl Captain
Wasim's longevity is limited to his number of tests/wickets against bottom/minnow teams.

Bumrah numbers outside of top 5 are : 34 wickets at avg of 10. No tests against Zim so far. Not likely to play against Pak so one less team from bottom half.

If Bumrah gets to 100 wickets agasint bottom teams with far superior record than Wasim then longevity against bottom/minnows becomes weaker argument. Against top teams his output is far ahead with similar number of tests.

In other words, some fans can wait for Bumrah to pick up 60 odd wickets at avg of 10-15 against SL/WI/BD/Zim etc or some can simply see that longevity can't comensate for output.


The gap between Bumrah and Wasim is not exactly the same but similar to the gap between Wasim and Anderson when it comes to outputs against top oppositions overall and away. How many will say Anderson longevity puts him ahead. Longevity shouldn't be under rated at all, but it's a good point to bring for similar outputs and not for vastly different outputs.

Yes, Comparing with some one like Marshall, sure. Marshall's longevity elevates him higher.
 
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Rob Wesley

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Ranking top 5 teams can be misleading sometimes.

NZ were a good team in 80s, SL good after 1995 and performance against England was given a lot of significance. I don’t think it is correct to skip those performances. For example, Wasim picked a 5-fer vs SL in SL in 2000. That is a top performance but won’t be captured when we look at top 5 teams during Wasim’s era. So, there is that hole in your analysis.

As for Bumrah, he definitely is right up there but players do face decline in latter phase and we will get a clear idea once we look at those numbers with higher overall.

Randomfan said:
Wasim's longevity is limited to his number of tests/wickets against bottom/minnow teams.

Bumrah numbers outside of top 5 are : 34 wickets at avg of 10. No tests against Zim so far. Not likely to play against Pak so one less team from bottom half.

If Bumrah gets to 100 wickets agasint bottom teams with far superior record than Wasim then longevity against bottom/minnows becomes weaker argument. Against top teams his output is far ahead with similar number of tests.

In other words, some fans can wait for Bumrah to pick up 60 odd wickets at avg of 10-15 against SL/WI/BD/Zim etc or some can simply see that longevity can't comensate for output.


The gap between Bumrah and Wasim is not exactly the same but similar to the gap between Wasim and Anderson when it comes to outputs against top oppositions overall and away. How many will say Anderson longevity puts him ahead. Longevity shouldn't be under rated at all, but it's a good point to bring for similar outputs and not for vastly different outputs.

Yes, Comparing with some one like Marshall, sure. Marshall's longevity elevates him higher.
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smash84

smash84

The Tiger King
humaiyun.hibas said:
Akram surpasses Bumrah not just in longevity, but more sigfniciantly in terms of skill and initimidation. Put simply, Akram was just better.
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What does skill mean though?

I love Akram, my favorite bowler to watch, but Bumrah is just more skilled at getting wickets. Akram was difficult to pick out of the hand but Bumrah is even harder and that's what makes scoring so difficult off him.
 
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humaiyun.hibas

Cricket Spectator
smash84 said:
What does skill mean though?

I love Akram, my favorite bowler to watch, but Bumrah is just more skilled at getting wickets. Akram was difficult to pick out of the hand but Bumrah is even harder and that's what makes scoring so difficult off him.
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A complete skillset for a fast bowler is about having that sternum-cracker, that nasty rising ball off a length. Bumrah has the complete skillset for a medium paced swing bowler.
 
kyear2

kyear2

International Coach
Randomfan said:
I think Wasim's had a top tier skills, but his away record against top teams was far below top tier level. Avg of 27 & SR of 60 does not paint a good picture. Having said that, I loved watching Wasim more than other bowlers in 90s. But bowler's job is to pick wickets quickly and cheaply. That's what makes you a beter bowler.

Many fans say that Wasim has more skills than McGrath/Ambrose because he could do this or that. I don't think it matters. If you could do only seam or only swing or only reverse and pick wickets quicker and cheaper by a large margin against top teams then you are a better bowler despite some one else able to do seam, swing , reverse and all 9 yards.

As far as Bumrah and Wasim goes, if I am playing against better teams , choice is simple - Bumrah.

As far as Bumrah and Wasim goes, if I am playing against bottom/minnows teams , choice is not so simple due to Wasim having logevity advanatge here and yet Bumrah avg is 10.

Bumrah does not have a large sample size against bottom/minnows but his avg is 10 in 6 tests. I see very little evidence to think that I should pick Wasim over Bumrah over all if I have to pick one.
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I don't think Wasim is as good as Ambrose nor McGrath and I know that this gets overplayed a little. But even today I was watching anl (really poor) all time team panel discussion, and even in the highlights he was bowling to Border and it was dropped at 2nd slip.

Don't know how many wickets he missed out on like that, but it may have got him a little closer.
 
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