Top-ranked T20 spinner Samuel Badree has listed teammate Sunil Narine in a list of top five spinners in the world, but more surprisingly as also one of the most difficult batmen to bowl to.
Badree, currently ranked as the fourth best T20 bowler in the world, listed a top five leg spinner list that included South Africa’s Imran Tahir, India’s Kuldeep Yadav, Australian Brad Hogg and sensational Afghan spinner Rashid Khan.
“He is really good. He is so young, he has so much potential. No batsman in the world seems to have got the better of him as yet. It is early stages in his career, he will need to develop some more variety as batsmen get more familiar with him. But he has tremendous potential,” Badree told Espncricinfo.
The 36-year-old, however, paused to give special commendation to Narine, despite the player not being listed as a leg-spinner.
“I must include Sunil Narine, although you said leg-spinner. He is a genius.”
In recent years Narine has also carved out a spot as a batsman at the top of the order for several franchises in the shortest format of the game, even getting the better of Badree in an IPL showdown last season.
“In the West Indies, Chris Gayle obviously. David Warner has been really difficult to bowl at. This might sound strange, but Sunil Narine had the better of me twice. He knows all my tricks. Aaron Finch is the right-hander that I find difficult,” the bowler said when asked for his list of most challenging batsmen.