July 30, 2012, 11:21 PM
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Cricket Sage
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Join Date: February 18, 2004
Location: The Bible Belt
Favorite Player: Anamul, Nasir, Taskin
Posts: 19,364
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Originally Posted by Banglatiger84
Those of us who watched cricket from mid90s to mid00s did not know how lucky we were to see such wonderful spinners year in year out.
I myself took it for granted, but now i find that the last decade was for spinners what the 70-80s were for fast bowlers, i.e. a time when 3-4 all time greats were plying their trades at the same time.
We had Warne, Kumble and to a lesser extent Mushtaq for leggies
Murali, Saqlain for off spinners. (Bhajji a class below them)
None of the spinners today are a patch on those 5
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Statistically speaking all of those guys are a bit over-rated apart from Warne and Murali, no?
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