Comments on: Adil Rashid treated like an English leg spinner

By: Lolly

Lolly — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:52:24 +0000

D Charlton, it’s the Warne complex. You think it’s bad here, you should see it in Aus. Hence the one test, suck it and see approach to practically any slow bowler who can turn their arm over.

By: D Charlton

D Charlton — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:05:44 +0000

He’s a batsman who bowls a bit according to a load of Yorkshire journalists. Yet he’s touted as The Saviour.

That said, in English cricket at all levels, you cannot be an ‘okay’ legspinner. There are plenty of ‘okay’ offspinners and medium pacers playing at clubs, counties and for the country.

But as a wristspinner if you are not an immediate world-beating, game-changing hero, you’ll get taken off after three overs.

It doesn’t really make sense.

By: Lolly

Lolly — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:49:59 +0000

He isn’t useless, but it is too early to be bringing him on. However, if they feel they don’t have anyone else, I suppose they’ll just have to stick with him.

I don’t know that his confidence is that easily eroded. He doesn’t seem a fool. And if he is serious about leg-spinning, he’ll have to learn to wear it some days all his career.

By the way, all the fuss that was made about his good game against Oz was very misleading. If you look at the stats, most of his bowling was at Michael Clarke.
Michael Clarke has a strike rate of 67 this year in ODI’s. In other words, it doesn’ t matter who bowls at him, he still can’t get it off the freakin’ square.

By: Maz@BoomBoomCricket

Maz@BoomBoomCricket — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:32:57 +0000

He is far overrated. Just because of the rarity of a leg spinners presence in English cricket. He has been woeful thus far in international cricket.

Nevertheless, England won yesterday.