Saeed Ajmal is as good or better than Shane Warne
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Warne: 4.9 wickets per Test Match; average 25; economy rate 2.7.
Ajmal: 5.3 wickets per Test Match; average 27; economy rate 2.7
So Ajmal takes significantly more wickets per test than Warne, but at a slightly higher average per wicket.
However, if adjustment is made for the generally higher batting and bowling averages of modern cricket compared with Warne's era, this probably leaves Ajmal ahead.
Ajmal is a really, really good bowler! In the same league as Warne and better than any other spinner in the modern game except of course the best of all: Murali.
This means that , from statistics, currently - now - playing each other in the same Test series - we have one of the very greatest ten or so spin bowlers of all time, and probably the greatest ever pace bowler of all time.
(I mean Dale Steyn.)
Why isn't more of a fuss made about this?
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Warne: 4.9 wickets per Test Match; average 25; economy rate 2.7.
Ajmal: 5.3 wickets per Test Match; average 27; economy rate 2.7
So Ajmal takes significantly more wickets per test than Warne, but at a slightly higher average per wicket.
However, if adjustment is made for the generally higher batting and bowling averages of modern cricket compared with Warne's era, this probably leaves Ajmal ahead.
Ajmal is a really, really good bowler! In the same league as Warne and better than any other spinner in the modern game except of course the best of all: Murali.
This means that , from statistics, currently - now - playing each other in the same Test series - we have one of the very greatest ten or so spin bowlers of all time, and probably the greatest ever pace bowler of all time.
(I mean Dale Steyn.)
Why isn't more of a fuss made about this?
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posted by Bruce Charlton at 4:58 AM
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