Chaminda Vaas v Nathan Bracken

[TheJediBrah]

Which one was a better ODI bowler? Tests clearly no comparison. Chaminda played a lot more ODIs but Bracken has a significantly tidier average.

Similar type bowlers who bowled away swing with the new ball and used off cutters later in the innings to great effect

I know who Migara & stephen would vote for, wondering about other opinions.

 

[CricAddict]

I like watching Bracken more than Vaas but will rate Vaas higher.

Personally, between bowlers with similar records, I will rate SENA spinners and subcontinent pacers higher for obvious reasons.

 

[CricAddict]

You can add a poll.

 

[mr_mister]

Bracken for the far superior average. Both are gun though

 

[srbhkshk]

I think Bracken was the better bowler quite comfortably in ODIs but Vaas had the better career eventually for multiple reasons.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Both rocked impressive mullets at some stages of their career as well, remarkable similarities

 

[TheJediBrah]

I think Bracken was the better bowler quite comfortably in ODIs but Vaas had the better career eventually for multiple reasons.

This is more or less my thinking. If I had to pick one to play for me on any day it would be Bracken, but hard to look past Vaas playing 300+ games

 

[Himannv]

I think both are quite underrated. Bracken is the more consistent over his career but it lasted a shorter period of time, while Vaas has had a much longer career with many different phases where he excelled at different things.

 

[srbhkshk]

This is more or less my thinking. If I had to pick one to play for me on any day it would be Bracken, but hard to look past Vaas playing 300+ games

Yeah, I rate Bracken very highly, he'd probably be an loi ATG with a longer career.

 

[Gob]

waiting for flem to suggest bracken> lee

 

[Pup Clarke]

Bracken was very good. Skillful operator with the new ball and always reliable at the back end. Can hardly remember him being taken apart

 

[Shri]

delete this thread

vaas actually had a respectable long test career

 

[Flem274*]

bracken is a long way ahead

waiting for flem to suggest bracken> lee

ask and you shall receive

 

[Daemon]

I think Bracken was the better bowler quite comfortably in ODIs but Vaas had the better career eventually for multiple reasons.

Yep, this.

Bracken would also be a T20 god these days imo.

 

[sunilz]

My first memory of Bracken is that he made Sehwag his bunny in TVS ODI series 2003.

 

[Migara]

Bracken had a one solid phase as his career. Vaas has two career ending injuries sandwiched between three phases of his career. There were time he was meh, and we wondered what he was doing in the team. But when on song, Vaas was comfortably destructive than Bracken, 2003 WC is a good example.

 

[honestbharani]

Bracken won Australia their only CT, correct?

 

[sunilz]

Bracken won Australia their only CT, correct?

They won in 2009 also.

 

[TheJediBrah]

vaas actually had a respectable long mullet

True

 

[Red]

bracken is a long way ahead

ask and you shall receive

It’s not a ridiculous take. Bracken became a master in short form bowling