Best left-arm seamer since Akram retired

[Fuller Pilch]

These are the stats of left armers since Wasim's last test match.


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Who's the best? In what order would you place them?

 

[Howsie]

Trent Boult

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Tempted to vote for Doug the Rug - pretty good stats

 

[Flem274*]

chaminda vaas, though current players have a very good chance but man that bloke was class throughout his career. even when he got old and slow he just continued to find ways to knock sides over. johnson had the greatest peak by a mile and had a solid career bowling fast angled cutter things but he also had the very lowest lows short of match fixing

neil wagner the best of the kiwis

 

[OverratedSanity]

Vaas, but not sure he counts as "after Akram" since the majority of his career was when Akram was still playing.

 

[cnerd123]

Amir is obviously the best skill-wise.

Vaas had the best career, followed by Zaheer or Mitch.

Mitch had the best peaks.

If nothing unfortunate happens, Boult will probably end up with a more impressive career record than all of the above except possibly Amir.

Starc has a long way to go, Wagner is good but not great, and lol Pathan.

 

[Flem274*]

Amir is obviously the best skill-wise.

that's not how you spell chaminda vaas

 

[cnerd123]

that's not how you spell chaminda vaas

Chaminda Vaas was every bit as skillful as Amir but about 10kmph slower.

So Amir is better. Obviously.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Chaminda Vaas was every bit as skillful as Amir but about 10kmph slower.

So Amir is better. Obviously.

**** off Chappelli you old fart

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Vaas, but not sure he counts as "after Akram" since the majority of his career was when Akram was still playing.

That's why I posted Chaminda's stats since 2002, rather than for his whole career

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Dishonest Amir was much better than the current version

 

[Zinzan]

Vaas is a legend, but retired almost a decade ago now & as somebody else pointed out, he played most of his career while Akram played, so I'm not really considering him in the post Wasim era.

In Tests, it's pretty even between Johnson, Starc & Boult, with Johnson probably getting the nod purely based on his incredible 2013/14 Ashes performance, & then.... well Waggers not far behind, only in his case it's only really been the last 3-4 years, Honourable mention to one of my special favs, Ryan Sidebottom.

If we're combining all forms, then it's Starc, followed by Boult, since both have pretty amazing ODI records to back their Test ones.

 

[Flem274*]

Chaminda Vaas was every bit as skillful as Amir but about 10kmph slower.

So Amir is better. Obviously.

amir has nowhere near the skill level. tbh post-ban he just kind of exists. a bit like bangladesh

 

[Starfighter]

Dishonest Amir was much better than the current version

This. Was faster, swung the ball more and both ways.

 

[cnerd123]

are we being relativistic now when talking about Vaas' skill level vs Amir? Like, Vaas was so much better than his peers than Amir is, ergo he is superior?

Because that argument I can see. Otherwise, Vaas was basically a slightly better Ryan Sidebottom. Amir literally has magic in his fingers.

Also post-ban he's had like 400 catches or smth dropped off his bowling, are you really just looking at his stats and going 'meh'?

Amir is easily the best left arm quick since Akram in terms of raw skill. Sure he hasn't got the record to show it yet, and obviously going to jail for crimes against cricket counts against him, but to say he isn't even as good as Vaas if not better is just wrong.

 

[DriveClub]

I'm finding all the left armers are pretty handy with the bat, think I might be onto something.

 

[andruid]

Dishonest Amir was much better than the current version

That's what happens when Mohammed Asif is your mentor.


Never really got to see Vaas when he was tear away but he was always a really skilled bowler. I reckon Starch and Boult are the most likely to surpass him.

 

[Zinzan]

are we being relativistic now when talking about Vaas' skill level vs Amir? Like, Vaas was so much better than his peers than Amir is, ergo he is superior?

Because that argument I can see. Otherwise, Vaas was basically a slightly better Ryan Sidebottom. Amir literally has magic in his fingers.

Also post-ban he's had like 400 catches or smth dropped off his bowling, are you really just looking at his stats and going 'meh'?

Amir is easily the best left arm quick since Akram in terms of raw skill. Sure he hasn't got the record to show it yet, and obviously going to jail for crimes against cricket counts against him, but to say he isn't even as good as Vaas if not better is just wrong.

Dropped catches or not. 44 wickets @ 37 with a SR of 80 are the figures of a poor mans Chris Martin, especially considering 9 off his 16 post-ban Tests were in English, Australian & New Zealand conditions.

Even if you pretend 6 of those dropped catches were taken, he's still averaging 33, which is well......... Chris Martin standard.

 

[vcs]

Amir's well past the point where his poor statistics can be explained by dropped catches, bad luck etc. Been one and a half years since his comeback FFS. He's only posted good numbers in WI.

 

[cnerd123]

man you all are now making me want to root for Amir to wreck sides and I really don't want to.