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I guess the same applies for visiting pacers as well given how they have done comapred to Indian pacers in the same list.Quality of spin bowling outside Asia in the last 10 years or so has been very poor. Bowlers like Moeen Ali have been frontline spinners in Test cricket who is barely better than a part-time bowler. None of the teams who have toured India regularly in this period have had good enough spinners which has made Ashwin and Jadeja look better than they are.
I believe Nauman would have picked like 8 WPM of it were Indian Wickets, Something like 300 Wickets in 40 odd tests @ about 15-17 average.India produce the worst pitches. They start turning from day 1.
A bang average spinner like akshar Patel averages 18 in India and that guy doesn't even turn ball an inch. He just darts the ball yet he is so successful on these tailored wickets.
Had chacha Nauman played in India he would have picked wickets in heaps. He is much better than akshar guy.
Those pitches help Ashwin and jadeja a lot.
Bashir did well? LOL ... he got thrashed left and right. He averaged 35 in India on the so-called spin-friendly pitches you're talking about, and his current average is 50 in Pakistan.Yes, Bashir and Hartley did well in India as well. The rookies.
But we also need to recognise Babar Azam is nothing special either.
No, I’m saying Pakistani spinners need used pitches to turn the ball and win matches to match Indian spinners.So you're implying Ashwin and Jadeja together would've picked up 40 wickets of England in this Test match?
he changed tone because, just like how Pakistani youtubers realized, there is more value in trolling Indians than Pakistanis@Mamoon but you called Ashwin the greatest Asian allrounder who surpassed imran Khan.
but what about Sir Vivian Noman Lara?Lol...not a big fan of Jadeja but Ashwin is a smart player
He came out of syllabusbut what about Sir Vivian Noman Lara?
Bashir did well? LOL ... he got thrashed left and right. He averaged 35 in India on the so-called spin-friendly pitches you're talking about, and his current average is 50 in Pakistan.
Heartly also averaged 35, but he at least took 22 wickets in 5 tests. This Bashir guy is a joke, and you are projecting him as a match-winning performer.
It tell me that W/L ratios do not matter in tournaments, only trophies matter.India has the best W/L ratio in tournaments. What does that tell you.
Ashwin and Jadeja have had it easy but I think Ashwin does have skills as compared to Jaddu who tends to dart them in and is more interested in social media.
This doctoring of pitches has made their successors Kuldeep, Chahal and Axar look like world beaters. When in fact they're also bang average and basically need to just turn up and let the doctored pitches do all the work.
Yeah.... That's factually correct, but only half the truth.It tell me that W/L ratios do not matter in tournaments, only trophies matter.
I've seen fresh pitches that spin moreBy the way i don't remember when was the last time, two consecutive tests were played at the same venue and same surface within days. Talk about the doctoring and home advantage.
It also tells us that they are the biggest chokers.Yeah.... That's factually correct, but only half the truth.
It also tells us, that....
Indian players have worked hardest on the art of cricket,
and are the most proficient and skillful.
I mean, if you are really REALLY objective, you would have to Just marvel at the way Indians have owned this colonial game.
Yeah.... That's factually correct, but only half the truth.
It also tells us, that....
Indian players have worked hardest on the art of cricket,
and are the most proficient and skillful.
I mean, if you are really REALLY objective, you would have to Just marvel at the way Indians have owned this colonial game.
I mean, when two teams play, one wins.It also tells us that they are the biggest chokers.
It is not about owning a colonial game.
Pakistan has a superior head to head W/L against India. Now what?
What is true is no one remembers W/L ratios, the hard effort, the talent, nothing is remembered in a tournament unless you win the tournament.
There you go.And regarding that overall head to head... We all know what happens in recent times when these two teams meet.
Let's continue to live in present, rather than bask in past glory.
Hook, line and sinker, the lot o’ yaSo all it took is one solitary win and again threads of comparison with India are out in fill force. The obsession is ridiculous.
Man, it is subtle... Read carefully.There you go.
You came back to pigeon hole a stat. I used your filter remember, now you want to live in the future? Or when you use W/L ratios it matters cos Indian fans want to live in past, present, and future?
This is why no one takes Indian fans seriously.
2014-2023 no trophies won. It is a big enough sample to conclude that India is a choker team. As far as H2H with Pakistan is concerned, no one asked India to not play Pakistan.I mean, when two teams play, one wins.
If you really want objective analysis of who plays better, you need a bigger sample size.... Simple stats.
Let them play for 10 games and find out who wins most.
A sample size of one is used by crackpot irrational people to arrive at any conclusion.
True, India did have a finals problem, but I think we are working on it. The last T20 wc was a proof that we are doing something about the problem, what is your next grievance.2014-2023 no trophies won. It is a big enough sample to conclude that India is a choker team. As far as H2H with Pakistan is concerned, no one asked India to not play Pakistan.
Let's not. Let them enjoy this win .
I don't think OP is insinuating that these are bad tactics - at least, I certainly am not. You gotta do what you gotta do to win and all the more power to the Indian team for that. Having said that, it really does bring into question the Indian hype machine that has turned above average to good bowlers like Ashwin and Jadega into legends - which, as Mamoon points out, they clearly are not. The Indian hype machine has done similar things with Bumrah, except Bumrah is better than Ashwin and Jadega but still not even remotely near the GOAT debate. But if you say a lie enough times, eventually it becomes the truth.
You forgot Daleri and Badmaashi.It's the jazba and gundagardi they have which Ashwin and Jadeja lack.
Ind will be the global cricketing superpower for the next 50 plus yrs and beyond. Those are hard cold facts .I think Indian fans deep down know the truth. The limelight is shifting from India to back to England.
BCCI was controlling cricket for 15 years but has sod all to show for it other than Netflix documentaries, adverts, movies, IPL cheer leaders, and a few fluke trophies along the way.
This is not dominance of cricket, this is propaganda.
Indian bowling unit is actually one of the best in entire history of cricket. Clearly no visiting bowler has done anything close to pacers and spinners both in India. If that does not convince you, forget about home record. Just look at away record for bowling units in the last 10 years,
You can try to see how many teams have been stand out the same way in entire history for any 10 years of period. It will be only 2-3 bowling units and that will be it. If bowling like this won't be hyped then who will get hyped?
Away record of all bowling teams in the last 10 years:
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In the last 35 years, great Aus team had similar stand out record as bowling unit. I have not see great WI unit but I would expect they were similar stand out among peer group. As I said, I don't know if we can find more than 2-3 bolwing units in the last 50 years which was better in away conditions even if we forget home condition.
Some time it's better to simply acknowledge good bowling and move on. It's not a bad thing. I used away to show that Indian bowling unit has been stand out by a large marin in period like 10 years in away condition so it shouldn't be hard to imagine they will be stand out in home as well.
I expect their decline in the next 10 years because no bowling unit has been able to maintain this kind of record for more than a decade.
Agree, that's the reason Jadeja and Ashwin have been a failure in oversees conditions , Ashwin is not even selected in playing eleven and Jadeja is sometime makes the 11 due to his fielding and useful contribution as a lower order batsman.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.
For entire unit averaging 27.xx for 10 years playing away, that's not marginal , that's massive. Great Aus team had the same 27-28 average for each wicket. In another words, bowling unit is bowling out oppositions on average around 270-280 runs. That when playing away from home. What more you can ask.. As far as the away performance is concerned, being the best marginally compared to other teams over the last 10 years doesn't make them the best or one of the best attacks in history. That is a laughable statement. It might make them one of the bests in the last 10 years.
You are right on Ashwin and Jadeja, they are not the legends but I would say that they are a beast in helpfull conditions.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.
Ashwin is a monumental failure on pitches that don’t turn, and you would expect Sajid and Noman to fail on those wickets too, hence the comparison between their skill-sets.On a pitch that is apparently showing extraordinary assistance to spin, such comparisons are odious.
Narendra Hirwani must be the greatest spinner of all time basis his first Test on a rank spinner in Madras.
Let these two each play for 20-30 Tests more, across all conditions and opposition, only then they may just be worthy enough to even begin a comparison.
Right now they’re not even in the frame.
However, in this game itself, and the one before, the Pakistani spinners have done and are doing a fantastic job.
Both guys won a Test when they had no right to, they were effective on the same pitches
Those 2 aren't even in boot licking distance of WarneAshwin and Jadeja bundled out England in a session where india scored above 700 runs .
Noman and Sajid can't even do in their dreams .
Ashwin is a monumental failure on pitches that don’t turn, and you would expect Sajid and Noman to fail on those wickets too, hence the comparison between their skill-sets.
The question is - had these two played every single home Test for India instead of Ashwin and Jadeja, would their records be significantly different? Would the results of those matches be significantly different? I would say no.
Those 2 aren't even in boot licking distance of Warne
I'm sorry but what was Ashwin's record in Australia and South Africa again?What was Warne’s record in India again?
Indian batters were treated Warne like a club bowler.What was Warne’s record in India again?
You realise that by this comment you’re making my exact point for me?I'm sorry but what was Ashwin's record in Australia and South Africa again?
India produce the worst pitches. They start turning from day 1.
A bang average spinner like akshar Patel averages 18 in India and that guy doesn't even turn ball an inch. He just darts the ball yet he is so successful on these tailored wickets.
Had chacha Nauman played in India he would have picked wickets in heaps. He is much better than akshar guy.
Those pitches help Ashwin and jadeja a lot.
to add to it ...back that up with facts dude. even i can say pak has the liveliest pitches in the world , all aussie pitches are like perth , all south africans pitches are batting friendly like centurion but that wont change the fact...
That India has the widest range of pitches in the world. Be it spin friendly like Ahmedabad motera kanpur Delhi, pace friendly - Bangalore Dharamshala , Neutral - Chennai Mumbai
pattas - Rajkot ( Chennai- difffrent strip )...
it wud be great if u see how much prep can change a wicket. those giant fans , drying techniques have made sure Rawalpindi turns nore than Ahmedabad after barely 120 balls the openers played.
even in namo stadium , it took a day for wicket ro break down like it has already
That dismissal in Bangalore says everything you need to know about Indian pitches. He made Saurav look like a crying school boy.Shahid afridi used to outbowl harbhajjan singh in test matches in india and it made me wonder what it would be like if he played his test cricket in india.
Ashwin and Jadeja are not better than Kuldeep, Axar and Washington. They are just lucky to play more.Washington Sundar is better than any Pakistani spinners currently and he is not even in top 4 spinner of india.
Ash
Jaddu
Kuldeep
Axar
Washington
But didn’t Ashwin surpass Imran to become the greatest Asian allrounder?Ashwin and Jadeja are not better than Kuldeep, Axar and Washington. They are just lucky to play more.
Pragyan OJha was very unlucky to have been dumped around 2013 otherwise he would taken 400+ wickets as well on these Indian pitches in the last decade.
Sajid and Noman and also Jayasuriya are all at the same level as these Indian spinners as well.
There is no difference between 9-10 spinners.
axar and jaddu r poliically pushed players ... need a particular pitch to take 2-3 wickets. batting wise axar way ahead of jaddu in t20 odiWashington Sundar is better than any Pakistani spinners currently and he is not even in top 4 spinner of india.
Ash
Jaddu
Kuldeep
Axar
Washington
thats when namoona doesnt have chamune on him . he has his days and moodsBut didn’t Ashwin surpass Imran to become the greatest Asian allrounder?
Those 2 aren't even in boot licking distance of Warne