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Kapil, Vaas, or Streak? (Best bowler)

Best bowler: Kapil, Chaminda, or Heath?

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Starfighter

Starfighter

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Migara said:
I think Vaas is well rated as a fast bowler in tests. Obviously there is about 8 - 10 blokes ahead of him in Asian block as test seamers (Imran, Wasim, Waqar, Asif, Shoaib, Safraz, Kapil and Bumrah on top of my head). But where Vaas' greatness is in ODI cricket. He is only second to Wasim in ODIs. Bumrah may go pass him in the future, but meh, a medium fast seamer getting amongst top 10 ODI bowlers is crazy.
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Vaas second only to Wasim in ODIs? I know you live in fantasy land, but Waqar is also ahead quantity and quality-wise. If we stick to Asian pace bowlers then Shoaib was also better. Let's not touch the lengthy non-Asian list.
 
Migara

Migara

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Starfighter said:
Vaas second only to Wasim in ODIs? I know you live in fantasy land, but Waqar is also ahead quantity and quality-wise. If we stick to Asian pace bowlers then Shoaib was also better. Let's not touch the lengthy non-Asian list.
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Vaas had a long long career compared to Shoaib and Waqar. Waqar took wickets sure, but Vaas was one of the most econimical bowlers ever to come out of sub continent.

A recent statistical analysis did place him above Waqar.
 
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Jayro

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Larsen was one of my fav. but he was dependant upon conditions and mostly bowled outside of field restrictions, had he been made to bowl during first ten overs during 90s when the innings really started to explode his stats could have been different, Vaas was vey good in Odi's at one time just before 96 wc Mark Taylor had said that he was so good that he was the only bowler in the world who could bowl a maiden over to Sachin although the only bowler that i saw taming Tendulkar really in odis during mid-90s was Fannie de Villiers.
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

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Migara said:
Vaas had a long long career compared to Shoaib and Waqar. Waqar took wickets sure, but Vaas was one of the most econimical bowlers ever to come out of sub continent.

A recent statistical analysis did place him above Waqar.
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Posting an Anantha number torture really isn't helping your case. The weightings of the various factors (and is some cases they adjustments) have to be arbitrarily chosen. I put little weight on longevity - being mediocre for a long time doesn't make you better.
 
Migara

Migara

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Starfighter said:
Posting an Anantha number torture really isn't helping your case. The weightings of the various factors (and is some cases they adjustments) have to be arbitrarily chosen. I put little weight on longevity - being mediocre for a long time doesn't make you better.
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Longevity will only matter when it's beneficial for your argument. I get the picture.

And yes, i would take a statistical exercise every day of the week, twice on sundays, over subjective nonsense.
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

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Migara said:
Longevity will only matter when it's beneficial for your argument. I get the picture.

And yes, i would take a statistical exercise every day of the week, twice on sundays, over subjective nonsense.
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You haven't the intellectual ability to understand that statistical analyses can be subjective and how.
 
ankitj

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Am I hallucinating or Vaas really had decent pace? Wasn't he about as fast as Srinath?
 
TheJediBrah

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ankitj said:
Am I hallucinating or Vaas really had decent pace? Wasn't he about as fast as Srinath?
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The latter part of his career he was real slow. Like medium pace slow, even when he bowled seam-up.

I think he was probably quite a bit sharper when he was younger but I don't think that phase lasted very long
 
Migara

Migara

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TheJediBrah said:
The latter part of his career he was real slow. Like medium pace slow, even when he bowled seam-up.

I think he was probably quite a bit sharper when he was younger but I don't think that phase lasted very long
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Srinath was terrifying in mid 90s. He has rearranged at least couple of faces. Vaas was no where close to that pace.
 
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