nightprowler10
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Rashid > Hauritz in this regard for me.
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Average/Good players who were better than everybody else in "one" skill/area.
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OverratedSanity
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Wasnt good at much else but Dilhara fernando bowled the most perfectly disguised split finger slower ball I've ever seen.
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nightprowler10
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Rana Naved-ul-Hasan had a really deceptive slower one too. I recall he used it frequently when England toured Pak in '05, I just don't recall if he was very successful with it.
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The Lord at basically being crap/wayward but then having some match winning spells with bat/ball.
Blenkinsop
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Jeremy Snape pretty much perfected the moon ball. Though I've seen a few in village cricket.
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Would expect wrist spinners to get more drift than finger spinners though. If we're counting leggies then I don't think anyone got more drift than Warne. It was one of the things that was weird bout MacGill, he would turn the ball as much as Warne but hardly ever got any drift for whatever reason.Rashid > Hauritz in this regard for me.
Denis Compson and hitting his wicket in Tests.
(From the same page: Bill Ponsford and hitting his wicket after having a 300+ partnership with Bradman in 1934).
(From the same page: Bill Ponsford and hitting his wicket after having a 300+ partnership with Bradman in 1934).
karan_fromthestands
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This one is an absolute gem. But with Hauritz, it was like he somehow managed to find some drift in every single delivery he bowled, it was poetry in motion.Rashid > Hauritz in this regard for me.
karan_fromthestands
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That beats everything else.
karan_fromthestands
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Paul Nixon - fittest WK ever. How old was he when he retired? He was in better shape than anyone else I can think of.
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Eknath Solkar and Hashan Tillekaratne - Short catching
Roshan Mahanama - Fielding
Hashan was quite a useful keeper batsman and an ambidextrous bowler. But his close in fielding was the best thing about him. Solkar of course is a legend, he probably was not that bright with the bat and the ball. Mahanama was average with the bat, but ATG in the field.
Roshan Mahanama - Fielding
Hashan was quite a useful keeper batsman and an ambidextrous bowler. But his close in fielding was the best thing about him. Solkar of course is a legend, he probably was not that bright with the bat and the ball. Mahanama was average with the bat, but ATG in the field.
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Scott Muller - batting
karan_fromthestands
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Excellent post!
wpdavid
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Solkar's other claim to fame was, for a while, at least, having Geoff Boycott as his bunny. Whilst you're right about him not being outstanding with the ball, he played a role in GB's decision to step down from test cricket in 1974 by repeatedly dismissing the great man at the start of the season. I think this stretched to India's matches against Yorkshire rather than just the test matches. I know there were numerous reasons why Boycott decided he didn't want to play international cricket for a while, but having his head scrambled by Solkar's left-arm trundles was part of the picture.
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Before anyone points out that Solkar only dismissed Boycott once, in the second innings of the first test. He had also dismissed Boycott in both innings of the MCC match before the series, and also in the second innings of the tour match against Yorkshire prior to that. So that was four times in five innings, which was quite something for a bowler whose main job was to send down a few overs at the start of the innings before the spinners came on.
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