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Best Bowler out of 10


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Best Bowler out of 10  

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    • Zaheer Khan
    • Joginder Sharma
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    • Ishant Sharma
    • RP Singh
    • Manpreet Goni
    • Irfan Pathan
    • Shanthakumaran Sreesanth
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    • Harbhajan Singh
    • Piyush Chawla
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    • Murali Karthik
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Inspired by the "who is the better batsman thread" Best Bowler out of the ten(srictly for ODI/T20Is): 1) Ishant Sharma 2) RP Singh 3) Manpreet Goni 4) Piyush Chawla 5) Irfan Pathan 6) Shanthakumaran Sreesanth 7) Murali Karthik 8) Harbhajan Singh 9) Zaheer Khan 10) Joginder Sharma :-D

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Ishant Sharma hands down in all formats of the game for India currently. Zak is awesome in test matches and good in ODI's. Joginder Sharma is good in all formats of the game....with caveat, he will only bowl the last over :giggle: WHERE IS PRAVEEN KUMAR??????! He'll be third.

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Lol, Ishant over Zaheer? Zak is the daddy of all Indian fast-bowlers. Very few bowlers in the world today can match his swing( both conventional and reverse), guile, variations and fast bowling acumen. Give him helpful conditions and he will scythe through an opposition top-order before you can say ' OMFG' :D

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Lol, Ishant over Zaheer? Zak is the daddy of all Indian fast-bowlers. Very few bowlers in the world today can match his swing( both conventional and reverse), guile, variations and fast bowling acumen. Give him helpful conditions and he will scythe through an opposition top-order before you can say ' OMFG' :D
agreed, MM. By the way, keep up your nice avi.:icflove: ZK is definitely a rarest of Indian bowlers who took most of the top order wickets in his career...proving the fact that he gives early breakthroughs...but onething is there...if early breakthrough is considered aloof, then IKP is also there to be considered. These days IKP is going through bad phase due to damage done by CHapell and bad form...but, he has bowled fairly well in ODIs.
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How can Zaheer be considered India's best bowler when he chose to sit in the sidelines, although he was fully fit, watching his side get clobbered by the South Africans, while he stayed out of the heat and grind of Test cricket to keep himself fresh for the IPL payday? The Melbourne Test ended on 29 December. The first Test against SA began on 26 March. That's 3 months, or almost 13 weeks. Zaheer had bruising of his heel, a soft tissue injury that takes a max 6 weeks to heal. He was in South Africa for rehab, and came back to India well before the Chennai Test. He declared himself hors-de-combat for selection for the first two Tests, but continued to bowl at the nets. When the final Test began 16 days later, India were fighting to stay in the series. RP Singh had fizzled out like a candle at the receiving end of a monsoon downpour, Sreesanth was struggling despite trying gamely, and Ishant Sharma's fitness was still a question, coming back as he was from a stress fracture of the big toe. If ever Zaheer needed to put his hand up and put himself to test for his country, it was at Kanpur. He chose to keep quiet, and keep himself out of the reckoning, despite knowing what was at stake. There is no doubt that he has matured into a very good bowler. His performances in IPL, where he has been at peak form from day one, reconfirm that. But he chose money over country, and we drew a series that we should have won comfortably because of the choices he made. It's difficult to forgive him for that. A shirker can't be India's number one bowler.

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Doc, its surprising to see you call Zak 'A Shirker'. It was only a year before that he turned in the best performance by an Indian fast bowler in the recent past, to win us a test series in England for the first time in over a two decades. Then, you could literally feel the determination in Zak's face, to do well for the country. Surely, you would be aware of the fact that in today's world of foreign fitness trainers, physios, intermittent physical health condition reports and impartial fitness tests, its not easy to feign injury and get away with it. We should also keep in mind that difference in workload between a test match and T20 game. A typical quick bowler probably goes through 50-60 overs over 5 days of the test match. In the IPL, thats probably the number of overs most bowlers will actually bowl throughout the 45 day tournament, given they play 14 league+ 2 knock-out games. Zak may have been fit before Kanpur after all, but they simply couldnt risk trying him out for a 5 day match.

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