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Originally Posted by Uppercut
Hardly amazing, how many of the touring teams would have been better than the hosts? India have never had a pace attack as good as this one, and NZ are as weak in tests as they've been for a while. Hell, i don't think India have ever actually had as good a team as this one. Any other contenders?
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Thats right.
If you make batting tracks, India could pile up big runs but did not have the fire power to get 20 wickets. If you make tracks to suit pacers, India would be bundled out but not be able to retaliate.
Today the roles are reversed.
By the way, its interesting to note that in 1967 India won the series and the bowlers who did the job for them were
Code:
Player W 5w Best Avg S/R
Prasanna, EAS 24 2 6/94 18.79 54.04
Bedi, B S 16 1 6/127 23.19 70.31
Nadkarni, R G 14 1 6/43 17.93 81.79
In 1976 the spinners were declining. Prasanna was in the 14th year of a 16 year long career and Chandra in his 12th of 15. Yet these two bowled well enough to allow India to draw the series 1-1.
Code:
Player W Best 5w Avg S/R
Prasanna, EAS 11 8/76 1 20.27 51.64
Chandrasekhar 11 6/94 1 26.73 65.36
Makes you wonder about the modern day great spinners of India doesn't it. These guys did it with next to no help from the seamers. There wasn't even a solitary Kapil Dev in sight let alone three fast medium to medium fast bowlers in the side and a couple waiting on the sidelines.
Didn't someone say something in another thread about spinners not being effective. These guys were. You just have to be THAT good.