Thought you were talking about Dan Swano and nearly typed a retaliation.
Yeah that's the first thing that came to mind. Awesome.
It is just a shame there is not more Dale Steyn on Youtube. There seems to be a lot of Waqar Younis and Wasim's top spells from early in their career's and you'd think that there would be more stuff of Steyn in this day and age.
My gut feeling is that Indians are going to target him as they've always done with spinners of repute. They always done it to the good spinners of opposition. But have to see whether India possesses that quality of mid 90s that thrashed Warne and Murali. IMO they may be little short of that quality. Sehwag and Raina will attack spinners, what ever the situation. But we are not having a young aggressive Sachin to complete the picture or a sublime in form Azhar. Sachin of today and VVS are not to that standards of mid to late 90s.
Gambhir is a fine fine player of spin, too.
There is something called "Stuart MacGill phenomenon". Tiger against poor players of spin, rank **** against who can play spin.
This makes so little sense. Steyn indeed dominates when the track is helpful (I would more suggest that Steyn dominates when overhead conditions are in his favour), but he has also bowled extraordinarily well in Pakistan, West Indies, Bangladesh and Australia. Countries that few fast bowlers can manage averages of <30 in.
Pretty useful against some of today's batsmen don't you think
Dhoni IMO is a class act against spin. His technique was only tested once or twice by Murali but that was at his stunning best. Still this Indian line up is the best against spin, and is better than many lineups in the history of game, but IMO isn't as good what they had in mid to late 90s with Sidhu, Azhar, Tendulkar, Kapil, Manjrekar and Kambli.
Have seen that spell on Youtube before, and it's remarkable how quickly those yorkers appear to reach the batsmen. Seriously rapid spell of bowling, but such a beautiful bowling action to generate that pace too, superb to watch. Any idea how quick that spell read on the speedo? I haven't seen many deliveries that looked as quick as that yorker to Morton.
Possibly yes, because the spin playing ability is fast vanishing from them. Miandad, Iqbal, Imran, Saleem were very good players of spin for Pakistan, but their ability to play spin drastically gone down, and now they are only as good as non-SC sides. Sri Lanka undergoing the same changes, as domestic pitches have become grassier and quicker to address the problems SL batsmen had against seamers. But it effectively killed spinners who thrived on variable bounce. Still SL has good set of youngsters who are good against spin, but I am really skeptical whether they'll achieve the standards that was achieved by Ranatunga, Gurusinghe, Tillekaratne and Mahanama. Both Jayawardanes and Samaraweera are the best players of spin in SL side who still keeps that flame burning. Once they and few youngsters like Chandimal are gone SL will suffer like Pakistan against spin.
There was no speedo that day. He was far quicker than all other bowlers on show that day, including Edwards, Powell and Taylor.
What is first chance average?
Everyone knows why. Performance against India is not a necessary condition for bestowing greatness on a spinner, but it certainly is the most important checkbox that a spinner would want to tick, exactly like performance against AUS (in 2000s) is for batsmen.
