Do you prefer watching a paceman or a spinner rip through a side?

[Jono]

I think it's much more fun watching a good spinner toy with a batsman, because at that pace there's no reason why a batsman shouldn't be able to lay bat on ball.Spinners also have the opportunity to make a batsman look incredibly foolish that pacers often don't.[/URL]

Yeah I share a similar view.

Both great though obviously.

I think I prefer a contest of awesome fast bowling vs. good batting. But if the bowler is to dominate then I slightly prefer spin.

 

[Satguru]

No better sight in world cricket than an express bowler, with the crowd at his back getting louder and louder as he runs in, and sending the stumps cartwheeling. Akhtar running through New Zealand in the match in which Inzy scored 329 was amazing to watch. IIRC he bowled 5 of the NZ batsmen with inswinging yorkers. The batsmen knew a yorker was coming, but simply werent good enough to keep it out,there was a sense of inevitability about it. With a spinner, the batsmen are usually tricked into throwing their wicket away, which is nice, but doesnt really provide the spectacle of a fast bowler tearing a side to shreds.

 

[Black_Warrior]

A pacer ripping through the side > anything in cricket combined.. And yes it is because I am a pacer myself which in turn is because Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis were pacers.

 

[watson]

Nothing better than a part-time left arm tweaker in full flight.

Here we have Alan Border taking apart Richardson, Hooper, Richards, Logie, Dujon, Harper and Marshall for starters. Australia eventually win by 7 wickets at the SCG.

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