Trescothin
Cricket Spectator
Natwest bring me to mind Brett Lee!!.I don't think even Harmison can ever bowl that poorly!
Yeah but that was his first game back from a major operation.Trescothin said:Natwest bring me to mind Brett Lee!!.I don't think even Harmison can ever bowl that poorly!
Injuries can not be used as an excuse - that's the rule of this forum apparently...Eclipse said:Yeah but that was his first game back from a major operation.
He only really bowled at about 135kph in that series and his direction was way off.
I did not look up stats which is why I may have sounded absurd. But my point is that Shoaib Akhtar has looked menacing, threatening, and the most probable to take wickets, even get Ponting out. And I am not clutching at bare minimum when I say that.Top_Cat said:
Eh? The fact that Ricky Ponting averages 73 against Pakistan with three BIG hundreds against them (two of them with Shoiab in the team along with an average of 82 with Shoiab in the team) hardly suggests that Shoaib has been able to get Ponting out consistently at all, let alone dominate him.
And in the matches they've come up against each other in one-dayers, Ponting has averaged 47.53 with one hundred and 6 50's in 18 matches.
So please, do you want to tell us just HOW it can be said that Shoaib has laughed the loudest against Ricky Ponting?
Disregarding the stats, I've only seen two occasions where that can be said; the Test match in Columbo and the one-dayer in Brisbane in the off-season series. Those two times, he made Ponting look like an amateur. But in Ponting's 197 in Perth, 141 in Columbo and most occasions in between, he's made Akhtar look like a club bowler.
Ringua said:Anwar is going to miss the match after getting injured at the hands of none other than Akhter in the nets!!
Agreed to a certain extend on Waqar, but to write off Akram is just plain silly! If you compare the recent (last ten onedayers) played by Akram and McGrath, you would hardly find a difference~oops! Also it was Akram who destroyed Australia in the 3 match indoor series in Australia!Willow Whacker said:Yep you might be right - trouble is Akram & Younis are nearly 100 years old and have done nothing in recent matches to indicate they will be a force.