Mamoon
ATG
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2012
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- 104,158
- Post of the Week
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For the past decade, the Indian propaganda machine that promoted a bang average cricketer like Dhoni as a legend, a middling Test batsman like Kohli as a GOAT and a good fast bowler like Bumrah as a mixture of McGrath and Wasim Akram.
The same propaganda machine that drives all the popular narratives in contemporary cricket have also driven the narrative that Ashwin and Jadeja are spin bowling legends who would walk into most teams in history and only Warne and Muralitharan would be able to compete with them.
The reality is that all it took was one spin-assisted pitch for two spinners with absolutely no reputation and no recognition to completely dominate and pick up a 7 wicket haul and 8 wicket haul each.
At face value, Indian fans would tell you that the likes of Noman and Sajid wouldn’t even get into the Indian D team because they have so many superior spinners at their disposal and yet, these supposed nobodies have done exactly what Ashwin and Jadeja would have done to England on the same pitch.
India have been producing such pitches every year since 2013. If Sajid and Noman get to play 50+ Test matches at home on such pitches they would also end up with a massive tally of wickets at 22-23, replicating the contrived numbers of Ashwin and Jadeja that have created the perception that they are spin bowling legends.
This clearly goes to show that the success and legacy of those two Indian spinners are circumstantial and nothing to do with how good they are and everything to do with how much they have benefited from the nature of pitches.
In terms of skill and ability, they are no different than any spinner from Pakistan who been grinding in FC cricket but have not been allowed to play on spinning pitches coupled with the fact that PCB doesn’t arrange enough Tests in the first place.
There is no reason for Pakistani fans to look at Indian spinners with envy and wish they had similar bowlers in their arsenal. They already do, but you have not been using them.
I hope this is the beginning of a new chapter for Pakistan cricket at home and PCB recognizes the value of preparing spinning pitches at home and trusting your experienced spinners to do the job.
It might have taken 2 years and plenty of humiliating defeats but better late than never.
The same propaganda machine that drives all the popular narratives in contemporary cricket have also driven the narrative that Ashwin and Jadeja are spin bowling legends who would walk into most teams in history and only Warne and Muralitharan would be able to compete with them.
The reality is that all it took was one spin-assisted pitch for two spinners with absolutely no reputation and no recognition to completely dominate and pick up a 7 wicket haul and 8 wicket haul each.
At face value, Indian fans would tell you that the likes of Noman and Sajid wouldn’t even get into the Indian D team because they have so many superior spinners at their disposal and yet, these supposed nobodies have done exactly what Ashwin and Jadeja would have done to England on the same pitch.
India have been producing such pitches every year since 2013. If Sajid and Noman get to play 50+ Test matches at home on such pitches they would also end up with a massive tally of wickets at 22-23, replicating the contrived numbers of Ashwin and Jadeja that have created the perception that they are spin bowling legends.
This clearly goes to show that the success and legacy of those two Indian spinners are circumstantial and nothing to do with how good they are and everything to do with how much they have benefited from the nature of pitches.
In terms of skill and ability, they are no different than any spinner from Pakistan who been grinding in FC cricket but have not been allowed to play on spinning pitches coupled with the fact that PCB doesn’t arrange enough Tests in the first place.
There is no reason for Pakistani fans to look at Indian spinners with envy and wish they had similar bowlers in their arsenal. They already do, but you have not been using them.
I hope this is the beginning of a new chapter for Pakistan cricket at home and PCB recognizes the value of preparing spinning pitches at home and trusting your experienced spinners to do the job.
It might have taken 2 years and plenty of humiliating defeats but better late than never.