Richard said:
err his ER before the WC in 99 was 5. so dont throw in your random numbers whereever you feel like.
Richard said:
Despite the fact that he's played on plenty of non-seaming tracks and they're evened-up.
no it hasnt, because hes been hammered on every single occasion that he played on a non seamer friendly tracks. and this track was certainly too seamer friendly for any performance to be considered as a good one.
Richard said:
It is, but someone can be forgiven a rubbish economy-rate if his average is exceptional, and 18.83 is exceptional..
its 20 odd(dont even try to include performances against b'desh and scotland), and its not exceptional because he got to play on seamer friendly tracks during the world cup. the fact that hes was rubbish before the wc and after it, suggests that he was a rubbish player who peaked when the conditions suited him. who does that remind me off?
Richard said:
You can't know that, the rest of his meaningful ODI-career numbers so few games. And we all know what a bad idea comparing Tests and ODIs are, don't we?
why not? if someone cant buy a wicket in tests and has an average of 20 odd in ODIs @4.6(which means that he clearly wasnt accurate either), its damn obvious that hes not a wicket taking bowler. its simply impossible for someone to be wicket taking in one form of the game and not in another form of the game despite not being accurate. unless of course you have the conditions to your favour(which he was fortunate enough to have had for the wc 99). had he been fit and played more ODIs, he would have been exposed as the mediocre bowler that he clearly was.
Richard said:
So if you pick-and-choose, finding excuses for almost everything, you can find he's a poor bowler.
have you ever seen a reflection of yourself? everything on here that you say relies on your picking and choosing the statistics you want, the stupidest of which are the ones where you say " if you remove his good performances, and look at his poor performances, you can see that hes quite clearly a poor bowler"
Richard said:
Despite the fact I've watched Katich play spin several times, and I've also spoken to people who've watched him play and also said he's not great against it.
well the person who you spoke to is obviously another fool, katich has proved the both of you wrong.
Richard said:
As supposed to you who've watched him play 3 innings.
which is more than enough to decide whether or not someone is good enough against spin, especially if hes played all those innings on spinner friendly wickets and against a quality spin bowler.
