impossible to answer right now, tournament hasn't gone on long enough to show any patterns. Right now all we can do is creatively interpret a few results to agree with us
if fast bowling gets pumped about and spin bowling dominates you can just say fast bowling is more important because if the fast bowlers were better they'd have won.
and if fast bowling takes all the wickets and the spinners get hammered you just say fast bowling is more important because it won them the match.
both of these scenarios have happened so far.
Not wanting to be harsh, but this is a rubbish topic War, all he says is 30 of 50 overs are pace so it's more important, and that's blatantly not true either, almost every team has brought means to bowl 30 overs, or even more, of spin. SA bowled 29 overs of spin at the windies. India 30 at england. Pakistan 26 at sri lanka.
then the rest of the article is about malinga getting reverse swing. which is sod all to do with anything.
It not solely based on this tournament. Its based on knowledge of what Indian conditions in ODIs play like, since many people where claiming before the tournament started the ball was going to spin everywhere. While i said that based on all of AUS winning ODI series in IND over the last decade (98, 2001, TVS Cup 2003, 2006 Champions trophy, 2007 ODI seres, 2009 ODI series) - flat batting beauties like what we have seen in Bangalore in this world cup generally shows up. AUS won all those ODI series on the strenght of its cutting edge pace attack mainly.
Secondly when Waqar was talking about the 30 overs the quicks would bowl in general in a ODI. I didn't read it as him referring to matches that have occurred in this world cup so far. I read it as him making a general synopsis of a hypothetical scenario, of what would occur with teams if the have the right amount of quality quicks in their XI.
Fact is if the pitches in India continue to be flat all over like Bangalore. In the power-play & death overs only the teams who have high quality quicks who can bowl yorkers are going to be able to keep batting quiet (which is related to to part of the article which talks abt Malinga's reverse swing bowling, since of course Steyn, Lee, Tait, Gul, Riaz can also do that) - not those who are spin dependent. No spinner in this world cup has Saqlain Musthaq of the 1990s death over/power-play over bowling skills for example (Vettori the closest & maybe Murali although he is passed his best).
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Still Pakistan playing with two frontline seamers
Ye i've been sort of surprised they have sticked with the same attack that brought them success in NZ, which would mean Riaz coming back in for Reham. But if you have a quality spinner like Ajmal/Rehman esepcially in India/SC, just in case you should pick him.
The role of Razzaq is sort of preventing PAK from picking 3 front-line quicks (Akhtar/Gul/Riaz) + the main spinner (Ajmal or Rehman) also.