http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193 Tahir adds variation to South Africa’s bowling attack, believes Jacques Kallis – Cricket News Update
Having beaten http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692, the South African all-rounder, believes that his side has one of the best bowling attacks of the world.
On a pitch, where the English side could only manage two scalps throughout the match, Graeme Smith’s men dismissed the Poms twice, proving their worth as a high-class bowling unit.
England’s bowling attack is also considered to be one of the best in the business but the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501 failed to make an impression on a flat track at the Oval.
The 36-year-old all-rounder, who played a massive role in the Proteas’ success, scoring 182 unbeaten runs to go with two wickets, is all praise for his regular bowlers, who he thought, bowled out of their skins to dismantle Andrew
Strauss and company.
Apart from admiring the three seamers, Kallis feels that the inclusion of the Pakistan-born right-arm leg-spinner, Imran Tahir, has added variation to the South African bowling attack, which lacked a world-class spinner in the past.
"We've got Vernon who puts the batsmen under pressure, we've got http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110 Steyn's pace and swing, we've got Morne with his bounce and we've got Immi [Imran Tahir] as a legspinner, which we haven't had for a long time, to add attacking
value, so we've got a nice balance," said Kallis.
On the other side of the coin, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597, the English middle-order batsman, thinks that Kallis proved to be the difference between both the teams in the Oval Test, but thinks that the legendary all-rounder is an under-rated cricketer,
although he has more than 24 thousand international runs and above 500 scalps under his belt.
Bell expressed, "Kallis on day one was important, when the ball swings he is as good as anyone in the world, gives great balance to their team as a fourth seamer and he is one of the greatest batsmen there has ever been but somehow
doesn't quite get the credit for it."
The second match of the series is going to commence on August 2 at the Headingley Leeds.
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