bhaveshgor wrote:Swann and panesar made debuts in India, the only awful debuts in India been owais shah and Blackwell. India been a good place to blood England debutants.
bhaveshgor wrote:Didn't play many test for England only 6 with an average of 26.
Got dropped for good after 2009.
But if you class shah as a success then only Blackwell been a dud.
Gingerfinch wrote:Samit Patel was pretty awful on debut in India.
sussexpob wrote:Gingerfinch wrote:Samit Patel was pretty awful on debut in India.
His debut was in Sri Lanka, in the 2012 Galle Test
sussexpob wrote:bhaveshgor wrote:Didn't play many test for England only 6 with an average of 26.
Got dropped for good after 2009.
But if you class shah as a success then only Blackwell been a dud.
You said it was an awful debut.... I say he scored on 12 runs less than India's whole second innings in his first test effort, in difficult conditions.
Making_Splinters wrote:The problem is more that England pick batsmen who bowl a bit of spin rather than out and out spinners.
Aside from Kerrigan, how many spin bowlers have we picked in recent times?
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Schofield.
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