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Old 01-04-2007, 06:34 PM in reply to pie_chucker's post starting "Come on Ern, did Giles ever have..."
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Originally Posted by pie_chucker
Come on Ern, did Giles ever have guile?? At his peak he never had as much guile, control or loop/spin that Panesar has shown so far in his brief career.
It depends on what you understand by "guile". I interpret as an intelligent ability to understand the batsmen's weaknesses and try to fool them with your variations of pace, trajectory and spin. Despite his limitations, I agree that Giles had plenty of that and I have seen him get some good wickets with it (for example, the manner in which he drew Sehwag into a false stroke & bowled him in the 2002 Natwest Final). Vettori has more talent and guile than Giles; Panesar is undoubtedly talented as a spinner, but so far he strikes me more as an instinctive bowler in the Harbhajan Singh mould than a thinking one. Look at the Indian; a few years ago, he used to bamboozle international batsmen and I still recall Gower and other commentators swearing blind to a golden future. He is still a good bowler, but there are distinct sign that oppositin batsmen have learned to read the signals correctly. I feel that the same thing might happen to Panesar over passing years; time will tell.

Last edited by Nostromo : 02-04-2007 at 11:26 AM. Reason: To avoid confusion due to my phraseology
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