Mohd. Rafique vs Ashley Giles

[Prad100w]

Giles can't be the worst in terms of performance .He did play his part during the ashes 2005, getting wickets at the crucial times against a very potent Australian batting line-up which can't be discounted. Also
seen him do well during the tour of India in 2001. So i guess its not fair enough to compare him with Rafique, who hardly have won a game for his side against quality opposition. However on spinning abilites, both su***.

 

[zaremba]

Atkinson's ability with the ball is very often under-estimated, and he was a handy lower-order biffer as well as an outstanding backward point fielder.

 

[zaremba]

Giles can't be the worst in terms of performance .He did play his part during the ashes 2005, getting wickets at the crucial times against a very potent Australian batting line-up which can't be discounted. Also
seen him do well during the tour of India in 2001. So i guess its not fair enough to compare him with Rafique, who hardly have won a game for his side against quality opposition. However on spinning abilites, both su***.

In the Ashes in 2005 Giles averaged 57.80 with the ball - yuck.

 

[Evermind]

In the Ashes in 2005 Giles averaged 57.80 with the ball - yuck.

But you forget - he was a real class batsman, a genuine all-rounder.

Right?

 

[fredfertang]

Has to be Atkinson - unlike the other two he always had a cunning plan

 

[Richard]

Both quite a bit better than I think a good few people realise, but both at the end of the day fingerspinners (with no more than a little batting skill of note) who were never going to be players of any great significance in the covered-wickets era.

Rafique of course should never have played a match which had Test status and had he not done so I doubt many people would've heard of him. That doesn't change for a second who was the better bowler, obviously, but just to mention.

Rowan Atkinson in all of The Thin Blue Line, The Witches and Johnny English has to have the brilliance that shines through ANYTHING, really, so he's un-not-vote-for-able.

 

[Harry Harrison]

Who's the better test spinner?

This is a thread for the sake of a thread. Simply wastage of time to talk about players like Giles.