Moeen Ali

[Trichromatic]

Took a test hattrick against SA. He is turning out be very good performer both with bat and ball.

[SK_IH]

superb player,two man of match performances as a bowler vs sa 

[MechEng]

Moeen is a good bowler but not that good as he showed against SA. SA are terrible against spin.

[SK_IH]

obviously eng wont win anything in subcontinient with ali as premier spinner but he is doing his job as an all rounder

[zaqw222222]

Solid performer for England

[wanted_desi]

Average of 26 with bat and 98 with ball. It is going to be a long tour for him. 

[sandeep]

53 minutes ago, wanted_desi said:

Average of 26 with bat and 98 with ball. It is going to be a long tour for him. 

He's a spin bowling version of Hardik Pandya - a valuable piece that lends good balance to the England side.  But England attempting to use him as a primary spinner is failing, just as India would fail if they used Pandya as a front-line seamer in test cricket.  

 

Ali is a very good parasitic 5th bowler, he will take wickets if the rest of the attack is doing well, but can be the weak link if they aren't.  

 

At the end of the day, he's not the problem for England at the moment, its their poor batting.  Carrying an aging Cook and Anderson, young and inconsistent batsmen in Stoneman, Vince and Malan - while misusing Bairstow all the way down the order at #7/8 is sheer self-inflicted stupidity.  

[mancalledsting]

also remember, apart from Australian spinners, spinners and especially finger spinners tend to struggle in Australia. harbhajan, murali, swann all struggled there. I'm not sure why, but as a spinner you need to bowl differently between Australian, Indian and English conditions. Moeen Ali seems to be very good in England but horrible anywhere else. 

[sandeep]

4 hours ago, mancalledsting said:

Moeen Ali seems to be very good in England but horrible anywhere else. 

Because the seamers set the game up successfully in England.

[mancalledsting]

2 hours ago, sandeep said:

Because the seamers set the game up successfully in England.

Apart from the subcontinent where spin is the main threat, performance of spinner is generally contingent upon rest of bowling attack.no surprise then that he under performs when his seamers under performed in Aus and India 

[SK_IH]

He is being used a main spinner ,which he will never be, unfair on him,the fact that Eng continue to think they can win in Subcontinent or Aus with Ali as premier spinner is funny

[Khota]

What I have seen of him I would call him average at best. He could never play for India with his current skill set.

[Vijy]

Ali is showing his true colours, esp. in comparison to lionheart.

[King Tendulkar]

Not a spinner and not a batsman . Apart from that is class 

[Vijy]

1 minute ago, King Tendulkar said:

Not a spinner and not a batsman . Apart from that is class 

a great beard though.

[velu]

piechucker 

[SUMO]

Very poor to be lone spinner in a test side.

[Vijy]

18 minutes ago, SUMO said:

Very poor to be lone spinner in a test side.

mostly selected because of his beard these days.

[SUMO]

4 minutes ago, Vijy said:

mostly selected because of his beard these days.

Yeah probably they have undisclosed secular quota for english team.

[Vijy]

2 minutes ago, SUMO said:

Yeah probably they have undisclosed secular quota for english team.

I think it's more about old boys club. Adil Rashid should have been selected in place of Ali for same role, but was not chosen.