Good point, Andre - Anil Kumble, the only leggie to take a 10-fer in Test Cricket - bowls it flatter than most.
"Bowlers can bowl what they want, but the real bowlers are risk takers.... bowlers who filght up and get for six and do it again the same type of ball and then gets a wicket"
Makes very little sense... implies that Harmison's a real bowler and Pollock isn't..
Could you please respond to points made rather that restating and requoting.
1) No one is disputing that flighted spin can be a potent weapon, but you seem to have the opinion that flat spin is a waste of time when history has proven time and again that it isn't.
2) What is the point in going all out to get a wonderful leggie when conditions here are on balance more conducive to swing and seam - we need swing bowlers and seamers far more often..
Mushtaq Ahmed's CC figures
71 @ 25, 8 @ 38 and 14 @ 29... 93 @ 27.06
Paul Strang's CC figures
31 @ 32.71
Shane Warne's CC figures
70 @ 23.14
Warne is brilliant, but the others are not that spectacular, are they? Which other leggies have had any success here?
Looking at Wisden, 2001's CC bowling averages had leggies at 2 (Mushtaq with Pak), 6 (Warne with Aus), 122 (Salisbury, Surrey), 124 (Shahid Afridi with Leics/MCC) and 141 (Schofield, Lancs). There were 146 in the list.
And MacGill got absolutely mullered this week by Surrey at Whitgift School.