Letter to The Wisden Cricketer

[FaaipDeOiad]

I can think of Chris Cairns, but any other Batsmen who have had a good time of it against him?

Fleming has always done very well against Warne and Murali and is a very good player of spin. Gary Kirsten struggled against Warne early in his career but played him very well later. Aravinda De Silva always played Warne well, and then of course there's a number of Indian batsmen other than Tendulkar, particularly Azharuddin and at times Laxman, though not really in 2004.

I'm not sure you can find any non-Indian batsmen other than Lara who have genuinely had the best of Warne by a significant distance over a decent range of matches though. Even Pietersen's had the odd problem against Warne. Any of those above could be a reasonable pick, though.

 

[chris.hinton]

Spinners get hit out ther ground more then Fast Bowlers do

 

[PhoenixFire]

Yeah I remember that Laxman innings (281*?), didn't Ganguly?

 

[archie mac]

Yeah I remember that Laxman innings (281*?), didn't Ganguly?

Ganguly plays everyone well, but does not 'go to town' on anyone really, just plays the ball on its merits

 

[Goughy]

Ganguly plays everyone well when the ball is pitched up, but does not 'go to town' on anyone really, just plays the ball on its merits

Just a small change

 

[Jono]

Just a small change

He's scared of short-pitched bowling from Warne too?

 

[Neil Pickup]

The latter of these two claims is, in my eyes, an exaggeration on the part of both the media and the public, and an offence to many supreme bowlers past and present.

The above sentence requires the addition of "an" before exaggeration, as shown.

Not necessarily. On a similar perspective, "the claim is hyperbole" is a valid sentence (article-noun-verb-noun as adjective). That doesn't need an article before the adjective, nor does this.

 

[silentstriker]

Shastri (although that was early on) also Hansie C had a couple of good innings against him and VVS Laxman

VVS pretty much plays well against all Aussie bowlers, McGrath too. Unfortunately, he doesn't carry that form over to any other team or he'd be the best batsman in Indian history.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Yeah, VVS always seems to play well against Australia, he made real fools of McGrath and Warne.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

IIRC hasn't Tendulkar laid into McGrath a couple of times, in one-day cricket though. Thinking of this game in particular.

 

[nightprowler10]

Weren't Saeed Anwar and Saleem Malik good at playing Warne? Not sure if they made him look ordinary though.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Yeah, VVS always seems to play well against Australia, he made real fools of McGrath and Warne.

Judging by the suggestions in this thread so far you will have to change the letter and just say both bowlers were bollox and numerous batsman slogged them all over the place.

 

[GIMH]

Judging by the suggestions in this thread so far you will have to change the letter and just say both bowlers were bollox and numerous batsman slogged them all over the place.

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