Despite bowling some pretty crap balls. I do have remember him getting taken part by some certain batsmen.
Oh, you mean like every bowler who's ever played the game at any level?
And so because he's been taken apart by a few batsmen (again, just like everyone else) suddenly he's over-rated? So his wickets against most other teams evidently count for naught. A TAD unfair, in my book.
Shoiab Ahktar can do that, so there's nothing special about that.
A handful of bowlers can do it in the world and that makes it 'nothing special'? Two particular bowlers can do it and it's 'nothing special'? Riiiight............
There is PLENTY special about being able to bowl an accurate yorker at 150km/h and because there's another person or persons who can do it, does not make it any less so.
There were plenty of others who could do complicated maths when Albert Einstein was alive; does that make him less special? When Hawking started to dismantle parts of the General and Special Relativity theories, did that make Einstein's discoveries less special? I think not.
But potential can take you so far. It doesnt make him a great bowler or great player or anything. Just ask Ramnaresh Sarwan. He his starting to shake off the "potential" bag. His accuracy is inconsistant.
"His accuracy is inconsistent"; what does that mean? That he can't bowl accurately? Rubbish. That he can't do it on a consistent basis? Rubbish. James Anderson has proven on quite a few occasions that if he's nothing else, he's accurate so unless we're thinking of two different James Andersons, this statement is false and I'm sure if you looked at a computer-generated view of his deliveries relative to someone like a McGrath, you'd see that whilst he's not in the same class, he's right up there.
If you're referring to the Eng-SA Test series, it's pretty obvious he was down on pace because he was tired. Something like that isn't remarked upon by so many people without having a grain of truth to it and from my own observations in watching the series, he looked buggered, really.
And no kidding, I don't know how anyone could have watched the same series as I did (Eng-SA) and not concluded that Flintoff has at LEAST improved by plenty since before the series began. People may not quite rate him REALLY highly but it's only a couple of consistent series' away and he showed plenty in that series that he's more than just a slogger who can bowl a bit.
great bowler with loads of potential
). And in general, he was pretty accurate all series, hence why he picked up wickets.