I think he’s a world-class spinner and a deserved selection, and the numbers prove me right.

The trouble comes in when a bunch of couch yahoos who know diddly-squat about cricket in general and spin-bowling in particular suddenly feel that their dime-a-dozen-dimwit opinions count just as much as that of someone a whole lot better informed.

Dullards really get my dander up.

Now if only you can direct me to where I said that Harris is an “unworthy selection” or should not be in the team.

Spinners in ODIs have a totally different sort of containment role — batsmen can’t use the speed of their deliveries to get the boundaries they seek and are therefore obliged to tonk them quite recklessly. Also, whenever a wicket falls, the new batsman takes time to get his eye in, and this curbs the run rate. So it makes a huge difference to his rpo rate if a spinner comes on at or near the fall of a wicket or whether he’s brought in to curb an eye-in pair of batsman flaying the seamers to the fence. There’s hardly any subtle mind-game playing going on in an ODI as there is in a test.

You can’t truly show your spinner’s bottling-up art in only 10 overs.

But, subtleties aside, you’ve been given factual proof by Wisden of how good a test spinner Harris is — an ER deeply below 3rpo, and up there on both ER and SR with the likes of Vettori and Harbhajan and not all that far off that of Warne and Murali.

Anyone who thinks Harris is an unworthy selection is an ignoramus foolishly reciting the dumb views of other ignoramuses as “proof”.

I know more about cricket now, than you will ever know in your sad little life, so goodbye

Yes. And feel, and see, and smell. All my senses are intact. It seems if you have lost some of yours.

Oom Tas does that if you over indulge. You should be careful. Where are we going to get another expert if you lose all of them?

Oh you can hear? Suprising.

Yes it’s the only one I know.

Stormers were decent. Go Chiefs

Oom Tas doen dit aan ‘n mens. Laat hak jou vas… hak jou vas…hak jou vas…ha

Your take on the Stormers performance?

I really doubt that I’m the one who drinks th cheap wine in this situation. HAHAHA.

You are amusingly pathetic. Good for you

Just pour yourself another glass of that cheap red wine you like so much. What’s its name?
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Oh yes…. Tassenberg or is it Oom Tas.

You sound like an oom Tas man to me.

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His career avg at 2.7 IS very comfortably below 3rpo.

At least we have now move away from the notion that Harris turn in figures of around 2rpo as a rule and accept that that is the exception hence his career ave of 2.73. Not bad if you compare it to the other recent top spinners in the world as you prove.

Your view that 2.7 is comfortable below 3rpo is probably debatable. I already stated what I regard as such and am not going into it again.

BTW, you should be careful using stats on this forum to prove a point. WP_, our resident cricket expert, does not like it very much and may start calling you a “stats monger” if you continue doing that.

You qualify your argument by referring to wisden reporting on that bit of stats.. They report on many things.. average age,average caps, average lbw, catches…. and other less significant factors that can be measured…

For all the noise you make on this blog about quotas, etc.. your inability fathom the basics of cricket reduces your credibility even further in raising any rational arguments