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Who is the greatest part time bowler of all-time?
- Thread starter subshakerz
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Ever stop to wonder if your position is a bit dicey when you have to use patently incorrect info to support it?
I think you could bowl in almost every match and still be a part timer. Hansie only missed bowling in 6 of his last 59 (of 68 total) matches. Less than 10 overs a match on average though.
Nearly every innings might be theoretically possible, but I doubt anyone has done it without a reasonably sizable workload.
subshakerz
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It's both, they are tied together.
subshakerz
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Which incorrect info? The Hammond point supports my critique.
Kallis bad. Cos few overs sometime in career.
Hammond good. Cos few overs sometime in career.
Now replace 'Hammond good' with 'Hammond and Kallis are closer in quality.
subshakerz
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I made no comment on Hammond's overall quality at all.
Love a tautology tbf.
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That's a contradiction
Yeah. ****ed it up again.
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Aus: Clarke, both Waughs, Ponting (very underrated seam-ups imo)
WI: I actually liked Chris Gayle's offies a lot and think he should've been used more like Hooper was. Low-key good ODI record too (167 wickets @35)
SA: Cronje obviously. Honourable mention to ABdV who could randomly get it to swing miles. Distinctly remember him hooping it when he bowled for some reason in the 2015 WC SF.
India: Sachin, Sehwag, Ganguly all excellent. Sachin the best one imo. Delivered two hugely important spells vs Australia in legendary wins, better spinner in border gavaskar tests than Warne tbh. Also, his 90s ODI death bowling is not well known outside India I think. The guy often came up clutch in the death overs and was relied upon to deliver in a way specialist bowlers often are.
Pak: Inzi. I mean, just look at this.
WI: I actually liked Chris Gayle's offies a lot and think he should've been used more like Hooper was. Low-key good ODI record too (167 wickets @35)
SA: Cronje obviously. Honourable mention to ABdV who could randomly get it to swing miles. Distinctly remember him hooping it when he bowled for some reason in the 2015 WC SF.
India: Sachin, Sehwag, Ganguly all excellent. Sachin the best one imo. Delivered two hugely important spells vs Australia in legendary wins, better spinner in border gavaskar tests than Warne tbh. Also, his 90s ODI death bowling is not well known outside India I think. The guy often came up clutch in the death overs and was relied upon to deliver in a way specialist bowlers often are.
Pak: Inzi. I mean, just look at this.
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Jayasuriya? Or does he not come under part-time? Steve Waugh in his initial years was a very good part time bowler too.
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In ODIs, Salim Malik was an irritating part time bowler too who regularly did well against India.
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Jayasuriya was a genuine AR in ODIs surely. 300+ wickets
Mathews and his part-time bowling was used far too regularly is what I meant
Not sure about Richards, but Tendulkar could easily have had a solid career as an all rounder.
Viv didn’t need to bowl much in tests but he was really useful in ODIs and demonstrated a lot of skills