How good was Imran Khan?

[Pluto]

I hope some of the users here have watched him live. I've been reading a discussion on another board about him. A certain member who posts here using the same ID is arguing that Imran was not a great strike bowler in Test cricket. I'd like to know the opinion of the majority here.

How someone who took 350+ wickets with many 5-wicket hauls is not a strike bowler in Test cricket is completely beyond me

 

[Burgey]

He was an amazing cricketer. IMO the best of the great 80s allrounders and a great strike bowler in test cricket.

 

[Zinzan]

He was an amazing cricketer. IMO the best of the great 80s allrounders and a great strike bowler in test cricket.

Fair to say that opinion is shared by the almost the entire cricketing world. Definitely the best of the four 80s allrounders.

IIRC PEWS rates Imran above Sobers as the greatest allrounder of all-time. I wouldn't quite go that far myself, but I know some who think that highly of him.

 

[Red]

Not many cricketers who could legitimately bat top 6 and also be a legit opening pace bowler.

Imran, Miller, Botham, perhaps Sobers.

 

[Gowza]

Not many cricketers who could legitimately bat top 6 and also be a legit opening pace bowler.

Imran, Miller, Botham, perhaps Sobers.

Procter, Rice.

 

[Red]

Procter, Rice.

Fair enough but Rice never played a test and Procter batted at 7th or lower in all his tests.

Great shame Rice never got his chance in tests. FC batting average of 40 and a FC bowling average of 22. In almost 500 FC matches!

 

[Gowza]

Imran certainly was a terrific cricketer and not many in history have been as successful as he has been as an all rounder at the highest level.

 

[honestbharani]

Don't think Imran warrants a #6 slot in any line up, maybe a bit like India are doing with Ashwin right now but ideally he would bat 7 or 8 and open the bowling and is IMo the best bowling allrounder of all time.

 

[Red]

He'd bat at 6 for Aust at the moment. Might even do as well as Mitch Marsh did.

 

[ImpatientLime]

clearly the greatest cricketer pakistan has ever produced.

overrated as **** as a batsman though.

 

[Pluto]

My question was mainly about how you guys rate his as a fast bowler.

 

[Top_Cat]

I know what the averages say but I personally put Botham above him (just) in the all-rounder stakes.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

I hope some of the users here have watched him live. I've been reading a discussion on another board about him. A certain member who posts here using the same ID is arguing that Imran was not a great strike bowler in Test cricket.I'd like to know the opinion of the majority here.

How someone who took 350+ wickets with many 5-wicket hauls is not a strike bowler in Test cricket is completely beyond me

I bet thats smalishah. Gambhiring about Imran and that too in other forum ffs

 

[honestbharani]

 

[smash84]

I bet thats smalishah. Gambhiring about Imran and that too in other forum ffs

You ****

 

[smash84]

I hope some of the users here have watched him live. I've been reading a discussion on another board about him. A certain member who posts here using the same ID is arguing that Imran was not a great strike bowler in Test cricket. I'd like to know the opinion of the majority here.

How someone who took 350+ wickets with many 5-wicket hauls is not a strike bowler in Test cricket is completely beyond me

Whoever is feeding you that crap has no idea what he is talking about. Imran is one of the greatest strike bowlers in history. In over a 100 years of cricket I can't think of more than 10-15 names (and that's stretching it) that I would take ahead of him for strike bowling.

 

[Gob]

As good as Ben Stokes

 

[OverratedSanity]

Bowled all right in the NZ series, I thought. But the batsmen were spuds and the slip fielders dropped like a dozen catches.

 

[vcs]

Bowled all right in the NZ series, I thought. But the batsmen were spuds and the slip fielders dropped like a dozen catches.

Acted decently in that one movie also whose name I can't remember

 

[OverratedSanity]

Delhi Belly was awesome