Will spin really be important in this tournament?

[TumTum]

[B]Spinners 	[/B]
 	DL Vettori  	3  	0  	33  	0  	11.00  	
 	NM Hauritz  	2  	0  	24  	0  	12.00  	
      GE Mathurin  	4  	0  	31  	1  	7.75  	
          RN Lewis  	3  	0  	27  	1  	9.00  
         KJ Cottoy  	2  	0  	16  	1  	8.00  		
Mohammad Hafeez  	4  	0  	16  	1  	4.00  	
     Saeed Ajmal  	3  	1  	12  	1  	4.00  	
     Shahid Afridi  	3  	0  	11  	1  	3.66  	


[B]Fast Bowlers[/B]
              B Lee  	4  	1  	13  	1  	3.25  	
      MG Johnson  	4  	0  	23  	4  	5.75  	
      TG Southee  	2  	0  	11  	1  	5.50
          IG Butler  	2  	0  	7  	1  	3.50  
       M Matthew  	4  	0  	22  	2  	5.50  	
      DE Johnson  	3  	0  	33  	1  	11.00  	
    Mohammad Asif  	3  	0  	26  	0  	8.66  	
   Mohammad Aamer  	4  	0  	13  	1  	3.25  	
    Abdul Razzaq  	3  	0  	11  	0  	3.66  	

[B]Medium Bowlers[/B]
         SB Styris  	3  	0  	31  	1  	10.33  
       SR Watson  	2  	0  	34  	1  	17.00  
     DT Christian  	2  	0  	29  	0  	14.50
         KK Peters  	4  	0  	24  	1  	6.00

The slower they bowl, the further they go :laugh

 

[McLOVIN]

Umm, ok. It's dumb to draw a conclusion from the WU matches.

 

[TumTum]

Umm, ok. It's dumb to draw a conclusion from the WU matches.

I think it's even more dumb to draw a conclusion without a single match being played, do you agree?

 

[pcfan123]

I don't know about that but your conclusion is based on 5 overs

 

[War]

Based on my knowledge of the grounds due the matches i've seen @ the venues in the past:

- Guyana will definately help the spinner. The recent Windies vs Zimbabwe ODI series proves that fairly conclusively.

- Barbados probably will not. Its is still potentially the quickest wicket in the caribbean. Plus given that the ground is pretty short square i reckon spinners could go the distance here.

- St.Lucia is a bit of an unknown i think. The pitch is usually fairly batsman friendly. So gut instinct tell me intially we may have high scoring games & as the tournament goes on, it will become spinner friendly.

So overall yea spin will be really important.

 

[age of the fall]

I see you left out Nathan McCullum(3/25 off 4 overs) and George Dockrell (3/24 off 4 overs) Did they mess up your point too much?

 

[TumTum]

I see you left out Nathan McCullum(3/25 off 4 overs) and George Dockrell (3/24 off 4 overs) Did they mess up your point too much?

A couple of random accidents they are, compared to the 9 others they are negligible.

 

[hacker]

it depends on the quality of the bowler

 

[-D-S-B-]

NZ opened with spin and it worked well.
So yeah, it probably will be important

 

[McLOVIN]

Its Caribbean. If you think spin isnt important, then you are just straight up r-tard

 

[McLOVIN]

Btw team batting 1st won all the matches today. Except Aus, scores were below per for 2nd innings. Shows the slowness of the pitch

 

[TumTum]

Btw team batting 1st won all the matches today. Except Aus, scores were below per for 2nd innings. Shows the slowness of the pitch

How does it show that? It has only been 4 matches and just because the teams batting 1st won doesn't mean anything.

BTW just because the pitch is slow doesn't mean the spin bowlers will benefit and the pace bowlers will not. Look at the bowling figures again.

 

[Chewie]

You're manipulating the statistics. You need to show every bowler who bowled today to get a fair analysis.

 

[TumTum]

You're manipulating the statistics. You need to show every bowler who bowled today to get a fair analysis.

Fine I'll do that for the WU matches, but Cricinfo will provide the statistics once the real matches begin.

 

[Chewie]

Nannes		3	0	20	1	6.666666667	
Lee		4	1	13	1	3.25	
Johnson		4	0	23	4	5.75	
Watson		2	0	34	1	17	
Rasel		4	0	33	0	8.25	
R Hossain	3	0	18	1	6	
Rankin		2	0	21	0	10.5	
Johnston	4	0	52	0	13	
Connell		3	0	23	0	7.666666667	
K O'Brien	2	0	27	1	13.5	
Mills		3	0	15	1	5	
Southee		2	0	11	1	5.5	
Butler		2	0	7	1	3.5	
Asif		3	0	26	0	8.666666667	
Aamer		4	0	13	1	3.25	
Razzaq		3	0	11	0	3.666666667	
		48		347	13	7.229166667	26.69230769
							
							
							
Hauritz		2	0	24	0	12	
Smith		3	0	22	0	7.333333333	
Utseya		4	0	27	2	6.75	
Price		4	0	33	0	8.25	
Cremer		4	0	30	1	7.5	
Maruma		2	0	18	0	9	
Islam		3	0	13	0	4.333333333	
Al Hasan	3	0	27	0	9	
Razzak		2	0	7	1	3.5	
Ashraful	1	0	4	0	4	
Dockrell	4	0	24	3	6	
Stirling	4	0	24	1	6	
McCullum	4	0	25	3	6.25	
Vettori		3	0	33	0	11	
Hafeez		4	0	16	1	4	
Ajmal		3	1	12	1	4	
Afridi		3	0	11	1	3.666666667	
		53		350	14	6.603773585	25
							
Christian	2	0	29	0	14.5	
Chigumbura	4	0	40	0	10	
Mpofu		2	1	13	1	6.5	
Mortaza		4	0	27	1	6.75	
Botha		1	0	15	0	15	
Oram		3	0	17	1	5.666666667	
Styris		3	0	31	1	10.33333333	
		19		172	4	9.052631579	43

Chewie added 0 Minutes and 21 Seconds later...

Spinners have a lower economy rate and average.

Chewie added 2 Minutes and 57 Seconds later...

This is only for international players mind you. I didn't include the WI domestic teams.

It's overs - maidens - runs - wickets - E/R rate - average(for totals)