Saeed Ajmal - ICC Awards - Why omit him? – Part 1 - Opinion
The game of cricket has always had a wide variety of spinners. Some could turn the ball prodigiously on green tops, while others relied on their immaculate line and lengths to stifle the run flow. Quite a few spinners have also managed to fox some of the
best batsmen in the world by producing an array of mind boggling deliveries, while others sit pretty with a few wickets, but at the same time take pride in impressive economy rates.
No modern day spinner however, has managed to polarize opinion as much as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859 in his prime. The erudite wizard who hails from Faisalabad, has been caught amid allegations of chucking, being part of a tainted team in 2010, and presently he has not
been nominated for the ICC Test cricketer of the year award for 2012. Despite this, Ajmal continues to fascinate the conformists, the classics and the modernists, all in one go. The zip that he manages to extract off various decks, and the doosra that he deploys
with good effect, is unparalleled by many modern day bowlers. Even the great http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Muralitharan-c1864, could seldom pull off performances of such substance in a short space of time. In light of this, Ajmal cannot be considered as ordinary, or
not worth the nomination at all.
For someone who shines in a team that had been marred by allegations of corruption, Saeed Ajmal should have easily made it into the preliminaries of the ICC Test cricketer of the year for 2012. From the period of 2009 until 2012, Ajmal managed to snare
some of the best batsmen in the world, and his record against teams ranging from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DM-Bravo-c1386 have all succumbed to the
magic of Ajmal’s fingers and many of them have failed to decipher his bag of tricks, and ended up contemplating over what had hit them.
He definitely isn’t ordinary by any stretch of one’s imagination. Neither is he a flat track bully, like other contemporaries such as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760. Ajmal is a bowler who can make the ball turn on glass if he is in the mood, and he has
been one of the few spinners who have taken wickets which offer comparatively less avenues for extracting turn. Thus, it can be safely said that the manner in which Ajmal manhandled http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 earlier in the year, was as prolific as
his ability to take wickets in places such as Australia and the UK. For those who face him, precision and patience are qualities which are of paramount importance, yet sadly, many modern day players tend to lack these qualities in consumerist times.
Spinners can have off days more often than not, as cricket becomes an increasingly batsman dominated game. Ajmal however, seldom has a dry day, and the only real nightmare that this magnificent spinner has ever weathered, was when Michael Hussey annihilated
him in the all important http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 had ever produced. The recently concluded
Cool and Cool Cup series in the Emirates is evidence of the fact that Ajmal has troubled some of the most astute Australian batsmen, of which http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MEK-Hussey-c1942’s wicket is the most prized.
Continued in Part 2...
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