George Dockrell - How good is he?

[anil1405]

George Dockrell has made his debut as a 17 year old and never looked back. He had a pretty impressive 4-5 years of cricket and has shown great maturity.

Where does he stand in the list of top associate players at present? Is he the best associate bowler? How good is he compared to other spinners across the globe?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Very good, best bowler outside the top tier nations for me. As good a left arm spinner as there is outside of the Asian teams.

 

[Prince EWS]

He's always done well for Ireland but I can't help being skeptical of how he'd for England or another side theoretically given he's not really set the county circuit alight, even in his preferred format.

 

[NUFAN]

He is a 68/100 type of player.

 

[Migara]

Probaly Shenwari and Nabi are better ODI spinners. There was a Scottish bowler who spun it a lot as well (Haq is it?), and would have been a very good spinner had he beem bowling to larger totals.

 

[anil1405]

Probaly Shenwari and Nabi are better ODI spinners. There was a Scottish bowler who spun it a lot as well (Haq is it?), and would have been a very good spinner had he beem bowling to larger totals.

I don't see how you are placing these two above Dockrell? Shenwari doesn't seem to be as good as he was before. And there is no way on this planet that Nabi is better than Dockrell.

Dockrell has this ability to deceive batsmen with his flight and he somehow continues to do that with good amount of success. He is a very good bowler in ODI format and the sort of bloke you look at and say he will succeed in the 4-day format but surprisingly he doesn't seem to enlighten the county circuit.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Nah, only attacks one side of the bat in the main, he needs the batsman to be coming at him to create opportunity. Can see why he hasn't done that well in longer forms.

Very good one day bowler though.

 

[cpr]

Pah, and what would you know about SLA bowling on an international stage?


Dockrell 4lyf

 

[Tec15]

Good by associate standards but mediocre by world standards.