Wickets alone do not make cricket greats.Each of the players who have over 200 wickets in tests are in my book - cricket icons.
Bhajji is on the threshold of being a cricket great. When Freddy Truman took his 300 th test wicket 50 years ago, he famously said " The bloke who breaks his record will be a bloody tired man".
Within a few months his record was broken by Lance Gibbs, the WI off spinner.
It is true that Warne and Murali have raised the bar for greatness by taking many many wickets but in my book Bhajji- 400 and going strong , Sir Richard Hadlee-386(What a smooth bowling action !) and of course our own Kapil - 434 (The original 1983 curry King) rightly deserve to be called cricket greats .
Wickets alone do not make cricket greats.Each of the players who have over 200 wickets in tests are in my book - cricket icons.
Bhajji is on the threshold of being a cricket great. When Freddy Truman took his 300 th test wicket 50 years ago, he famously said " The bloke who breaks his record will be a bloody tired man".
Within a few months his record was broken by Lance Gibbs, the WI off spinner.
It is true that Warne and Murali have raised the bar for greatness by taking many many wickets but in my book Bhajji- 400 and going strong , Sir Richard Hadlee-386(What a smooth bowling action !) and of course our own Kapil - 434 (The original 1983 curry King) rightly deserve to be called cricket greats .
If BHajii was not asikh Everyone would have praised him, Kumble played 132 matches to take 619 Wkts (average 4.6 wkts per match). BHajii played 98 matches for 400 wkts (average 4.081 wkts per match), Is there a great differnce, So whay so many BHajii bashers: simple hi from minority.
by shashwat (View MyPage) on Jul 09, 2011 11:42 AM Very well said, I have been saying the same thing since so many years.
But u said minority, I will say a particular minority, if he had been from any other minority community he would hv been praised by everybody. To correct you further, Bhajji has played 96 tests not 98 as you hv mentioned, that makes his average even better.
