Which team has the best bench strength currently?

[BeautifulGame]

Tests South Africa .The best strength of SA fast bowling attack is amazing Odis India

[Crookbond]

South Africa and bench strength!

[Ultimate_Game]

Tests South Africa .The best strength of SA fast bowling attack is amazing Odis India

Are you sure? You take out Steyn and they are pretty average. As far as fast bowling is concerned Australia is miles ahead as far as bench strength is concerned.

[StriKe]

India - Batting for sure :agree:

[BeautifulGame]

Are you sure? You take out Steyn and they are pretty average. As far as fast bowling is concerned Australia is miles ahead as far as bench strength is concerned.

Philander and Morkel will walk into Aussie bowling lineup let alone Steyn. None of the Aussie first choice bowlers including Pattinson havent proved anything in International cricket so far let alone their bench strength.Cant compare with SA imo

[Ultimate_Game]

Philander and Morkel will walk into Aussie bowling lineup let alone Steyn. None of the Aussie first choice bowlers including Pattinson havent proved anything in International cricket so far let alone the much hyped bench strength.

Aussie fast bowling unit is pretty good with likes of Starc, Pattinson, Harris, Siddle, Cummins (if fit), Johnson. It's the lack of spinners which kills them. On a pace friendly seaming pitch Aussies would be a tough out for any team.

[maniac]

Philander and Morkel will walk into Aussie bowling lineup let alone Steyn. None of the Aussie first choice bowlers including Pattinson havent proved anything in International cricket so far let alone their bench strength.Cant compare with SA imo

The worst part is Robin Peterson might walk into the Aussie squad as a frontline spinner :haha:

[vvvslaxman]

Aussie fast bowling unit is pretty good with likes of Starc' date=' Pattinson, Harris, Siddle, Cummins (if fit), Johnson. It's the lack of spinners which kills them. On a pace friendly seaming pitch Aussies would be a tough out for any team.[/quote'] Whatever happened to Hilfenhaus, Bollinger?

[BeautifulGame]

Aussie fast bowling unit is pretty good with likes of Starc' date=' Pattinson, Harris, Siddle, Cummins (if fit), Johnson. It's the lack of spinners which kills them. On a pace friendly seaming pitch Aussies would be a tough out for any team.[/quote'] Yeah not denying they are b potentially good but most of them havent proved anything yet. Strac not even first team regular yet , Cummins and Harris hardly play 2 consecutive tests and Siddle and Hilfenhaus are plain average .Not as good as SA bowlers for me

[Ultimate_Game]

Yeah not denying they are b potentially good but most of them havent proved anything yet. Strac not even first team regular yet , Cummins and Harris hardly play 2 consecutive tests and Siddle and Hilfenhaus are plain average .Not as good as SA bowlers for me

The point is about bench strength. SA attack depends way too heavily on Steyn and to a lesser extent on Philander. Morkel cannot lead the pace atack IMO. OTOH Aussies don't have problem plugging in the fast bowling gap and can replace any pacer without major concerns. Aussies' issue is spin bowling which is bare and batting which is too reliant on Clarke, but their fast bowling depth is which is keeping them competitive.

[Ultimate_Game]

Whatever happened to Hilfenhaus' date=' Bollinger?[/quote'] Yup, and add in Watson and McKay as well along with Dirk Nannes.

[vvvslaxman]

Lot of new crop of south african bowlers like Abbot are yet to prove themselves against team other than Pakistan :cantstop:

[BeautifulGame]

The point is about bench strength. SA attack depends way too heavily on Steyn and to a lesser extent on Philander. Morkel cannot lead the pace atack IMO. OTOH Aussies don't have problem plugging in the fast bowling gap and can replace any pacer without major concerns. Aussies' issue is spin bowling which is bare and batting which is too reliant on Clarke' date=' but their fast bowling depth is which is keeping them competitive.[/quote'] Morkel cant lead an attack but Stark Cummins et al can? Based on what? Steyn Philander Morkel Kyle Abbott Tsotsobe Morris.For me SA bench is as good as Aus but with much better first choice bowling attack.

[Crookbond]

SA does NOT have a bench strength in batting or bowling (for Test matches). England and Australia have a good bowling bench strength. India has good batting bench strength. Sri Lanka has no strength in the team, forget bench strength. :hahaha:

[Ultimate_Game]

Morkel cant lead an attack but Stark Cummins et al can? Based on what? Steyn Philander Morkel Kyle Abbott Tsotsobe Morris.For me SA bench is as good as Aus but with much better first choice bowling attack.

Take out Steyn and maybe Philander and SA would struggle big time. Take out any of the 2 pacers from Aus attack and they will still be more than handy as far as pace deptt goes.

[vvvslaxman]

SA does NOT have a bench strength in batting or bowling (for Test matches). England and Australia have a good bowling bench strength. India has good batting bench strength. Sri Lanka has no strength in the team, forget bench strength. :hahaha:

Kushal perera.. jayasuriy a reincarnation 0,6,4,4 :giggle:

[Crookbond]

It's time for RKT to come and tell about the bench strength on Australian bowling. I think they have about 7-8 international class bowlers who would've debuted if based in any other team (I hope England is listening :secret: )

[StriKe]

Sri Lanka has no strength in the team, forget bench strength. :hahaha:

:phehehe: What about Pakistan :hmmm:

[BeautifulGame]

Take out Steyn and maybe Philander and SA would struggle big time. Take out any of the 2 pacers from Aus attack and they will still be more than handy as far as pace deptt goes.

We will see in this ashes and India tour i suppose

[vvvslaxman]

:phehehe: What about Pakistan :hmmm:

Ya Younis Khan, Afridi.. when they go out of form.. (which will be instantaneous) then Malik, Hafeez will be their bench strength.. Bengh strength and main team will keep swapping endlessly.