Why didn't Malinga have a career like Bumrah?

[vvvslaxman]

He ended up with 101 wickets same as Bumrah but at an average of 33.  No matter how many yorker specialist come, there is always only one Malinga.  It is surprising he didn't have a half decent test career. 

 

Look at the fat malinga nailing 4 N batsmen in 4 balls with amazing accuracy. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nclPaVQmCHc&ab_channel=SriLankaCricket

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[rkt.india]

Malinga was completely a different bowler to Bumrah. Bumrah is nowhere as good as Malinga in terms of Yorkers. In test cricket, how well you bowl in the corridor matters along with bounce. Malinga low arm bowler, low bounce, not as accurate and very short.

[Lone Wolf]

Malinga used to get late swing against left handers & was lethal.  But he lacked the skill to bowl in corridor consistently. 

In Shorter format it is different dude was a beast in his prime. 

[puneet28]

Bumrah is the more intelligent bowler. Malinga relied more on yorker, unorthodox action and lower height of arm. On the other hand, Bumrah uses yorker occasionally. He is a thinking bowler. I must say that he is the most intelligent bowler we have had in last 2 decades.

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[Serpico]

He gave up on test cricket too soon at 27. With more experience and better bowling pitches in next decade, he would have been a good asset outside Lanka

[ShoonyaSifar]

Malinga never had a good FC record, Bumrah came into international cricket with a sub-25 bowling average. 

 

Bumrah is a better bowler across formats, Mallinga was however more clutch in LOIs. 

[speedheat]

Malinga struggled to get the bounce off good length. Unlike bumrah he was a very low bounce bowler. Also he had serious injuries.

[vvvslaxman]

38 minutes ago, Serpico said:

He gave up on test cricket too soon at 27. With more experience and better bowling pitches in next decade, he would have been a good asset outside Lanka

 

Probably would have ended up with slightly better average against current crop of batsmen.  He played from 2004-2010. Look at the batsmen we had at that time.  Punter, Kallis,  Hayden, Tendulkar, Dravid, Sehwag, KP, Smith, Cook, Hussey,  Gambhir, Amla, Younis, Chanders, Clarke, Moyo, Gily, Gibbs,. etc. 

Edited September 14, 2021 by vvvslaxman

[R!TTER]

8 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

He played from 2004-2010. Look at the batsmen we had at that time.

More than that the pitches & DRS, you could very well argue that today's batters on flat pitches & no DRS would've smoked him even more on many of those dead tracks 

[vvvslaxman]

7 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

More than that the pitches & DRS, you could very well argue that today's batters on flat pitches & no DRS would've smoked him even more on many of those dead tracks 

 

Almost all countries have stopped producing good batsmen.  Fab 4 is now Fab 3 lol.  Babar is catching up. OUtside this we hardly have any good batsmen. Guy like Rahane would have never found a spot in the MO. Ishant's average is testimony lol Career average 32.22. Since 2010 31.22. Since 2016  - 23.69.  

[express bowling]

Bumrah and Malinga have completely different bowling styles.

 

Bumrah has a high arm action and hits the pitch very hard. Is a master of bowling accurate deliveries of different lengths at high pace, whenever he wants to. 

 

He has the bowling style succeed on different kinds of pitches and conditions.

 

Malinga's speciality was his skiddy quick deliveries from a rather low release point. Such pacers rarely do that well on bouncier tracks.

 

But he did not do well in Asia either, probably due to his lack of accuracy in test matches.

[speedheat]

57 minutes ago, MultiB48 said:

 

 

The full toss to Jamie How, which hit him on the knee, had a speed of 152 kph. He couldn't see the ball.

What a bowler.

[ShoonyaSifar]

25 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

Almost all countries have stopped producing good batsmen.  Fab 4 is now Fab 3 lol.  Babar is catching up. OUtside this we hardly have any good batsmen. Guy like Rahane would have never found a spot in the MO. Ishant's average is testimony lol Career average 32.22. Since 2010 31.22. Since 2016  - 23.69.  

So you are saying Ishant got better due to poor batting standards.

 

Is that argument applicable to Ashwin as well? Averaged 31 in his first 25 tests, since 2015 averaging 23. 

[Jay]

1 hour ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

Probably would have ended up with slightly better average against current crop of batsmen.  He played from 2004-2010. Look at the batsmen we had at that time.  Punter, Kallis,  Hayden, Tendulkar, Dravid, Sehwag, KP, Smith, Cook, Hussey,  Gambhir, Amla, Younis, Chanders, Clarke, Moyo, Gily, Gibbs,. etc. 

Pitches

Drs

That made the difference. Not quality of batsmen. 3 format players. 

[Lone Wolf]

19 minutes ago, Jay said:

Pitches

Drs

That made the difference. Not quality of batsmen. 3 format players. 

Jeez Quality of batsmen has seriously gone down..  Cook even now is smoking runs in County..  While youngsta beauties still failing around.  Even Sanga had a decent run after retirement in County. 

All round batters are difficult to find these days. 

[Jay]

29 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Jeez Quality of batsmen has seriously gone down..  Cook even now is smoking runs in County..  While youngsta beauties still failing around.  Even Sanga had a decent run after retirement in County. 

All round batters are difficult to find these days. 

I think the opposite. Quality of bowling has gone up. All the way up. That makes batsmen look better than they are. 

 

Either way if you put sachu bhai and say laxman and dravid with current bowling attack of india, they would annihilate every team left right and centre. 

 

Our current batsmen middle 3 are beyond hopeless. In their prices they were good however. 

[SRT100]

1 hour ago, express bowling said:

Bumrah and Malinga have completely different bowling styles.

 

Bumrah has a high arm action and hits the pitch very hard. Is a master of bowling accurate deliveries of different lengths at high pace, whenever he wants to. 

 

He has the bowling style succeed on different kinds of pitches and conditions.

 

Malinga's speciality was his skiddy quick deliveries from a rather low release point. Such pacers rarely do that well on bouncier tracks.

 

But he did not do well in Asia either, probably due to his lack of accuracy in test matches.

 

I would have Malinga at his peak for a white ball final.

 

Bumrah has been great for India, but Malinga at his peak was breathtaking, his yorkers at speed and on target are almost unplayable.

 

Malinga also bowled to far superior batsmen IMO compared to Bumrah.

[Jay]

Lol the great Aussie attack struggled vs our 08 weak bowling attack. Imagine if bumrah and co unleashed their skills on them. Bloodbath. 

[Lone Wolf]

11 minutes ago, SRT100 said:

 

I would have Malinga at his peak for a white ball final.

 

Bumrah has been great for India, but Malinga at his peak was breathtaking, his yorkers at speed and on target are almost unplayable.

 

Malinga also bowled to far superior batsmen IMO compared to Bumrah.

Actually Bumrah is currently struggling in ODIs due to that two new ball rule...  It has taken the reverse swing out of the equation.  Bumrah Shami would be very lethal with an older ball in ODIs. 

In ODIs these days either you are a left armer like Boult or generate both swing & bounce like Hazelwood only then you end up picking wickets. 

 

T20s Bumrah is a beast as he is harder to hit.  His low economy rate always makes him a match winner. 

That being said Malinga in his prime was Treat to watch in ODI & T20.

[Khota]

Bumrah is a beneficiary of Indian system. He has great surrounding cast around him and the pressure on the opposition is relentless.

 

Anyone who thinks the Indian pace attack in england was not the best in cricket history is delusional.