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Originally Posted by sum_1
If we're talking about all time, the 2 names that comes to my mind are Derek Underwood (if you can call him a SLA) and Bishen Bedi. Vettori, although a great bowler himself, does not yet belong to the same category as the other 2 gentlemen.
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the issue with these 2 is that they played a fair amount on uncovered wickets giving them better conditions to bowl in than modern left arm spinners, yet they still had very high strike rates. let's give herath his credit here, he average 29 (bedi averages 28 - only slightly better) and his strike rate is just 63.9 which is head and shoulders above underwood, bedi or vettori who all strike at over 70 and in fact bedi strikes at 80.3 with vettori striking at 79.6.
i don't see how bedi or vettori come close to herath. underwood has a case due to his average being in the 25s, otherwise you have to start looking at guys from much earlier to contend with but again they had the advantage of uncovered wickets as did undewood and bedi.