Bangladesh team is heavily relying on their so called world class spinners but they are not really as good as Sulieman Benn and Robin Peterson. As an off spiner Mahmudullah and Naeem are no match for Swann and Botha. Even Netherland's off spiner Tom Cooper looked better than Nayeem and Riyad.You can ask me why is that ? Find out by yourselves in cricinfo and also watch below if you like.
Sulieman Jamaal Benn's bowling averages:
ODIs Mat Inns Runs Balls Wkts BBI BBM AVE Econ SR
24 23 1223 892 29 4/18 4/18 30.75 4.37 42.1
Source:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cric...yer/51248.html
Robin John Peterson's bowling averages:
ODIs Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR
46 42 1779 1397 38 4/12 4/12 36.76 4.71 46.8
Source:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cric...yer/46750.html
Both Benn and Peterson played less than Shakib and Razzak because WI and SA don’t rely on their spinners more than pacers. Obviously South Africa will not play 3 spinners while they have got world class fast bowlers like Dale Styne, Morkel, Kallis (he didn’t even bother bowling against BD in this WC) , Lonwabo Lopsy Tsotsobe etc. West Indies also don’t depend on their spinners more than pacers. Bangladeshi spinners always have to bowl 10 overs and they come to the bowling attack during the first 10 overs power play. According to cricinfo Razzak played 117 ODI matches and Shakib played 108 ODI matches and most of their win against weaker Zimbabwe which helped their spinners to get some sort of momentum to cheer about. Why the heck Razzak and Shakib bowl flat and allowing the batsmen to pick up easy singles ? Some times the world class spinners (Razzak, Shakib, Naeem, Riyad) even bowl too short which allow the opposition batsmen to free their arms and hit the ball for boundaries. After playing so many ODI matches they (Razzak and Shakib) still can’t pitch the bowl up to batsmen consistently !! Both Shakib and Razzak have got lack of variations with their bowling.
Wake up Shakib and Razzak !!! COME ON !!
I think South African spinners like
Peterson and Botha will be more threatening than Shakib and Razzak in any sort of game (specially in test cricket). Sulieman Benn would trouble Bangladeshi batsmen in test cricket more than
our so called world class spinners would trouble the full strength West Indies team.
The stronger oppsitions are not dumb. It looks like the opposition teams (SA and WI) took the whole advantages in the local condition and defeated bangladesh badly. If there was no dew factor , Bangladesh would have lost against England badly because of Grame Swann. Remember Swann couldn't grip the ball properly for sake of the dew in the match against Bangladesh and got fined because of arguing with umpires about griping the ball.
Wake up Bangladeshi batsmen !!! Learn how to use the feet against spinners.