How on earth is Rashid Khan an ODI spin legend with these stats?

[Katwalindian]

I saw lot of people raving about this guy in podcasts that new Shane warne is born...but I am shocked to see his stats which shows:
He played 24 odis against Zimbabwe and took 50 wickets at average of 14, 26 odis against Ireland with 55 wickets and average if 17, great against Bangladesh also but when it comes to SENA he played only 13 matches but averages over 40...... this soo called legend name is Rashid khan.... if posters have audacity to mock babar azam and called him Zimbaber even after scoring 80 percent runs against SENA countries then why this minnow basher is termed as legend?

 

[sweep_shot]

Rashid Khan is a T20 specialist like Sunil Narine, Pollard, and Andre Rusell. Nothing more.

Most of his ODI wickets came against minnows.

 

[Katwalindian]

Rashid Khan is a T20 legend like Sunil Narine. Nothing more.

I hear podcasts Pakistanis putting this guy over saqlain mushtaq in odis.... its laughable to think...

 

[sweep_shot]

I hear podcasts Pakistanis putting this guy over saqlain mushtaq in odis.... its laughable to think...

Maybe they are young kids who didn't watch Saqlain live.

Saqlain played at a time when standards and quality were very high.

Rashid gets to bowl at many T20/minnow hacks. Saqlain didn't have that luxury. Saqlain still ended up with 288 ODI wickets.

 

[GoUgandaCranes]

I saw lot of people raving about this guy in podcasts that new Shane warne is born...but I am shocked to see his stats which shows:
He played 24 odis against Zimbabwe and took 50 wickets at average of 14, 26 odis against Ireland with 55 wickets and average if 17, great against Bangladesh also but when it comes to SENA he played only 13 matches but averages over 40...... this soo called legend name is Rashid khan.... if posters have audacity to mock babar azam and called him Zimbaber even after scoring 80 percent runs against SENA countries then why this minnow basher is termed as legend?

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He's a modern era T20 cricketer who will shatter records on paper but won't come close to the stature of past players. This isn't just about him, there are many other players who appear brilliant because of the era but are not stellar cricketers.

The fast bowlers do not have the fitness to last a full season. They start complaining about workload the moment they bowl more than 30 overs a match & if someone completes a 3 test series, it's considered as an achievement.

The batters with the exception of a few are all one-dimensional players & even someone who is considered as the best of this generation (Steve Smith) gets hit in the helmet/face often (would be career/life ending injury without the protective equipment).

The spinners barely spin the ball. We grew up watching Warne and Murali who would spin the ball a mile and could beat both the inside and the outside edge of the bat. There were also bowlers like Saqlain, Kumble, Mushtaq, & MacGill who had greatness in them.

T20 cricket has diluted the overall standard of cricket at the cost of entertainment value of high scoring contests. The fast bowlers now bowl 1 meter outside the off stump & have three slow deliveries every over. I like the paddle shots and feel that there are a lot of other shots that need to become normal (switch hit, tap over the keeper's head to a normal ball, standing behind the wickets on a free hit/normal ball, etc.) but I also understand that undermines the basic fear of fast bowling in cricket & makes trundlers commonplace. Imad Wasim is effective, & so was Deepak Patel but I'd rather watch a Brett Lee run in to bowl the first over of the match instead of the two darters that I've named.

 

[Smbhayi]

Since when is Rashid Khan considered as an ODI spin legend? Never heard that before..!

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Rashid is in decline. He is no longer the strike bowler he once. He has been overexposed because of T20 leagues and most good players have figured out how to score off him. Someone like Noor Ahmed is a more dangerous bowler when he is on song.