Performance of Asian bowlers in South Africa

[rtmohanlal]

On what basis are they carrying along the 6' 3 useless Ishant sharma?????

[Silva]

I remember even on that green mamba where laxman was the only batsman that passed 50 Ishant sharma still found it difficult to take wickets. He just isn't any good against good batting line ups. But people always think he has improved after bullying around weak batting line ups with his pace and bounce but I would be happy to see him average less than 45 if he gets picked.

[Lannister]

Ishant's average is an eyesore. With Yadav losing his touch, we have no choice but to rely on useless Sharma. And we have new talented bowlers are being used for net practice. 

[Vk1]

10 hours ago, Shunya said:

Look at Venkatesh Prasad's numbers, pretty similar. Awesome!!!

Venky's record perhaps got skewed in his favour coz of that 96 tour playing on the Durban pitch where we scored 100 and 66.

[Vk1]

10 hours ago, Brainfade said:

Sreesanth's fall is one of the greatest tragedies of cricket.  Big-time talent in an area where India has historically lacked talent.  With more consistency and concentration, he could've been India's trump card abroad for many years.  Too late now.  

Gives me grief to see how Sreesanth himself and others have ruined him

[Rightarmfast]

10 hours ago, Gollum said:

Asif could have been the next Mcgrath, deserved what he got in the end but many batsmen benefited from his ban, esp Sanga who got almost 2000 runs at a humongous average against Asif less Pakistan. 

Lolz. He was nothing more than a trundler. And that too, along with being a cheater! Funny how you say he could have been a Mcgrath. 

[SK_IH]

7 hours ago, chewy said:

Asif is amazing (stats) wise.

 

Easily the best Pak quick after retirement of Wasim & Co.,too bad his ethics and discipline wasn't upto mark

i agree ,the guy was an artist 

[SK_IH]

11 hours ago, wanted_desi said:

Ishant Sharma Avg: 54 :O

 

Why did they even take him this time around?

tall,he gets bounce and he has improved apparently  

[Rasgulla]

@mancalledsting Can't see your "Leader of Bowling attack" in this list 

[rkt.india]

24 minutes ago, Rasgulla said:

@mancalledsting Can't see your "Leader of Bowling attack" in this list 

who?

[Temujin Khaghan]

Srinath is better version of ishant hit the deck hard fast bowler

 

Zak is better version of bhuvi swing both ways at medium fast pace bowler 

 

That's why Srinath and Zak did well in saffer land and england...

 

Now ishanth and bhuvi need to channel their inner Srinath and Zak. Ideally if

both play at their max focus and effort, ishanth should dominate bhuvi in these conditions.

[Gollum]

2 hours ago, Rightarmfast said:

Lolz. He was nothing more than a trundler. And that too, along with being a cheater! Funny how you say he could have been a Mcgrath. 

He used to get prodigious seam movement. 

[Rightarmfast]

41 minutes ago, Gollum said:

He used to get prodigious seam movement. 

Look at Prasad's stats too. He has pretty similar stats as Asif, however he wasnt a Mcgrath. Asif was nothing more than a trundler to me and he never looked threatening at all.

[Gollum]

1 minute ago, Rightarmfast said:

Look at Prasad's stats too. He has pretty similar stats as Asif, however he wasnt a Mcgrath. Asif was nothing more than a trundler to me and he never looked threatening at all.

If he were a mere trundler he wouldn't have bowled so well in Sri Lanka, Aus, NZ, SA and even on that flat featherbed in Karachi 2006. He was an improved version of Pollock with more seam movement and extra 2-3 " height. Highest version of Pollock was Mcgrath, so no reason why Asif couldn't have reached that level at least in test cricket had he not been so corrupt. 

[Suhaan]

What a coincidence just when Umesh started to bowl beautifully in his more than brief  career Kumble was removed.Mr Shastri came and Umesh well, became  the old genuine Umesh once again.just saying..

[rkt.india]

25 minutes ago, Gollum said:

If he were a mere trundler he wouldn't have bowled so well in Sri Lanka, Aus, NZ, SA and even on that flat featherbed in Karachi 2006. He was an improved version of Pollock with more seam movement and extra 2-3 " height. Highest version of Pollock was Mcgrath, so no reason why Asif couldn't have reached that level at least in test cricket had he not been so corrupt. 

Karachi was featherbed? you probably didnt even watch the game? Pakistani were 39/6 once in that  game.

 

Asif was shorter than Pollock. where you getting that Asif being extra 2-3 inch height on Pollock. Pollock was 6'2.5-3", Asif was at best 6'2".

Edited January 4, 2018 by rkt.india

[Gollum]

9 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Karachi was featherbed? you probably didnt even watch the game? Pakistani were 39/6 once in that  game.

 

Asif was shorter than Pollock. where you getting that Asif being extra 2-3 inch height on Pollock. Pollock was 6'2.5-3", Asif was at best 6'2".

Karachi flattened out in the 2nd innings like a NZ track.

 

I always thought Pollock was a short person and underestimated his height (probably judgement clouded by other SA players around him). He is 1.88 m but Asif still at 1.93 m is 5 cm taller than him, around 2".

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, Gollum said:

He used to get prodigious seam movement. 

on seaming tracks.

[Gollum]

22 minutes ago, MultiB48 said:

that sl series the pitches were quite helpful it was nipping around ,he was same height and style of bowler as pollock

Still that SL had a great batting line up. We never won in Lanka until 2015. 

[rkt.india]

4 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Karachi flattened out in the 2nd innings like a NZ track.

 

I always thought Pollock was a short person and underestimated his height (probably judgement clouded by other SA players around him). He is 1.88 m but Asif still at 1.93 m is 5 cm taller than him, around 2".

where did you get asif being 1.93 meters? Karachi did not flatten out in 2nd innings, we just did not have the bowlers to utilize seam. Both Pathan and Zak was swing bowlers, not seam.

Edited January 4, 2018 by rkt.india