Handling Leggies in Asia !

Playing in the Desert can create a Mirage !

Dubious TEST record , these 2  ;D
                                           

I believe the combined 70 innings of wicketless spin by England and Pakistan is now the most innings bowled without taking a wicket. It has been a real tough go for all the bowlers but spinners especially.

3 Number of times Devendra Bishoo has taken four or more wickets in an innings in just the three Tests he has played in 2015.

His best Test figures of 6 for 80 had come the last time he bowled in a Test, in Australia's first innings in Dominica this year.

Bishoo has taken 14 wicket this year at an average of 30.85.

His 40 wickets before that had come at 39.55 runs apiece.

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Playing in the Desert can create a Mirage !

Dubious TEST record , these 2  ;D
                                           

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that looks like Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi

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Good eye, Googs, yes, this was taken at the Sheikh Zayed Mosque on the eve of the first Test in Abu Dhabi.

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Rashid was brilliant today and almost somehow bowled England to the most unlikeliest of Test wins. It was great to see him respond so positively after such a rough first innings. With his five-for in the second innings, he became just the fifth English spinner to take a five-for in debut since 1950.

A few more stats courtesy of ESPN:

Quote:1 - Adil Rashid's was the first instance of a bowler taking a five-for in the second innings after going wicketless for 100-plus runs in the first innings on Test debut. The closest any bowler had come previously was also from England: in Brisbane in 1970, Ken Shuttleworth, a right-arm fast bowler, took 5 for 47 in Australia's second innings after finishing with figures of 0 for 81 in the first.

9 - Total instances of debutant bowlers taking a five-for in the second innings after going wicketless in the first. The last such instance was in 1996 by Lance Klusener, who had figures of 0 for 75 in the first innings and then returned with 8 for 64 in the second, against India in Kolkata.

56 - The number of years since an England legspinner returned better figures in a Test. That achievement rests with Tommy Greenhough, a Lancastrian who played only four Tests but who took 5-35 against India in 1959.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-pa...29865.html

Warnie thinks that Rashid has the potential to become a solid Test bowler. As it is unlikely that England will play two spinners in South Africa, I am not sure whether Rashid will get much opportunity going forward as Mo is still the first choice spinner.

Quote:Warne added: 'It's about trying to beat them in flight, get them driving.

'My line would change a bit - you'd go a bit wider, then you'd use the faster, straighter one as a major weapon.

'But the hard-spun legbreak is the real key, and you just had to try that as much as you could. That was basically it for the first two days.'

Rashid took advantage of being able to bowl on the final day in Abu Dhabi, with that maiden five-wicket haul.

In Dubai, however, he was outbowled by fit-again Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah - who with 69 wickets in his first 11 Tests over the past year, has risen to second in the International Cricket Council rankings.

Yashir Shah - the No 1 ranked spinner in the world at the moment - runs in to bowl in the second Test

Comparing the two leg-spinners, Warne said: 'They are completely different bowlers.

'Yasir is a real hustle-and-bustle leg-spinner. To me he's the best in international cricket at the moment, and I hope Rashid will get better.

'He's not as fluent as someone like Yasir, but that doesn't mean he's not as effective.

'If he gets his confidence up I think he can be a real handful.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket...areer.html