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Charl Langevelt: Exactly how good was he?

How good was Charl Langevelt?

  • Waste of selection

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Just another 'Wasteman'

    Votes: 2 22.2%

  • A good bowler, no more, no less

    Votes: 6 66.7%

  • All time good bowler

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Bow before the Lange!

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Other....(discuss in thread)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    9
andruid

andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
He had a decent purple patch in the mid noughties, would probably have had more than 6 test matches were transformation targets not such a sensitive hot button issue. Possibly one of the more effective death bowlers of his day. Where do you rate him.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
I remember him returning some excellent figures against England in one of the matches before the start of the 2004/05 series. But he was then overlooked for the first test and Steyn was picked ahead of him. That looks fair enough now but Steyn was very young at the time and didn't have an especially effective test match; England ending up winning comfortably. I was grateful to the SA selectors, but I don't know what the SA supporters thought about it.
 
GoodAreasShane

GoodAreasShane

Cricketer Of The Year
wpdavid said:
I remember him returning some excellent figures against England in one of the matches before the start of the 2004/05 series. But he was then overlooked for the first test and Steyn was picked ahead of him. That looks fair enough now but Steyn was very young at the time and didn't have an especially effective test match; England ending up winning comfortably. I was grateful to the SA selectors, but I don't know what the SA supporters thought about it.
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Seems strange to think of now but early Steyn really wasn't very good. Had pace but sprayed it around somewhat, bowled a hell of a lot of front foot noeys too iirc.

Was a weird period for the South African bowling attack, those couple of years after Allan Donald finished up. They tried a few guys (Nel, Nantie Hayward, Dewald Pretorius, probably a couple of others I can't recall at this stage) looking for a pace spearhead, generally without great success
 
SillyCowCorner1

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GoodAreasShane said:
Seems strange to think of now but early Steyn really wasn't very good. Had pace but sprayed it around somewhat, bowled a hell of a lot of front foot noeys too iirc.

Was a weird period for the South African bowling attack, those couple of years after Allan Donald finished up. They tried a few guys (Nel, Nantie Hayward, Dewald Pretorius, probably a couple of others I can't recall at this stage) looking for a pace spearhead, generally without great success
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Monde Zondeki was the guy.
 
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