wpdavid
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Four slow bowlers in the top 6 - must have been a while since we've seen that.
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Four slow bowlers in the top 6 - must have been a while since we've seen that.
Prince EWS
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that's ridiculous
weldone
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They do weight opposition and conditions. Otherwise nine 4-wicket hauls would fetch Ojha more rating points.
Pup Clarke
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I get Herath being ranked where he is - but Ojha? May as well have Panesar there cause he got Tendulkar twice going by the criteria.
Pup Clarke
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I've always thought the opposite tbh - all based on current form. That's why you get abnormalities like Kula being ranked 1 in ODI's.
Howe_zat
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The ODI rankings have other problems, biggest of which is that economy rates count for a lot but aren't adjusted for the match situation. So medium pacers who tend to bowl entirely in the first 30 overs like Kula - or half decent orthodox spinners who only bowl the middle overs like Hafeez - are rated as though they can bowl at under 4 an over bowling at the death, when the fact that they can't/won't bowl at the death is the main reason their economy rates are so good in the first place.
vic_orthdox
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As second spinner, Ojha has only been picked when conditions are in his favour. It's a better job than Ashwin, who has had to carry the load in Australia, for example.
centurymaker
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indian bowling attack comparable to that of bangers
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smash84
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Stapel
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Like most of us, I don't give a rat's arse about official ranking lists.
Monty is nowhere near this top ten, and rightly so. Yet, would he have been an Indian (let's not get started about a discussion he actually is), or a Pakistani or a Sri Lankan, he very well might be.
Is it a totally ****ed up idea to think Swann & Panesar are a better spinner pair than Ojha & Ashwin?
Monty is nowhere near this top ten, and rightly so. Yet, would he have been an Indian (let's not get started about a discussion he actually is), or a Pakistani or a Sri Lankan, he very well might be.
Is it a totally ****ed up idea to think Swann & Panesar are a better spinner pair than Ojha & Ashwin?