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In reply to Chrissy

Congrats Rabada probably the best looking action for a fast bowler in World Cricket at the moment!!!

Wish wi bowlers learned as fast as him

I was impressed with him from get go! Of course, some of you were vexed at the moniker I concocted.

In reply to velo

It is the system! I made a bet regarding the development of Rabada and Josephs...
Alzari. Though from different cohorts my predictions v
came through

In reply to Brerzerk

more to do with money than anything else. rabada's parents are both professionals so he would have had access to the best SA facilities even if the still racist structures in that country didn't want him there. The SA sports system is as advanced as it is competitive. I remember Robin Smith speaking about how he had access to a bowling machine in the mid 70s, when the technology was still very new. The West Indies has never had anything as advanced as that. Ithink it also helped that Rabada came into a team with seasoned professionals: steyn, vernon philander, another black man and a very successful black player, morne morkel who apparently really took kg under his wing. the bowling attack when in alzarri's first game was gabriel, cummins, holder and RTN. Holder's test career was two years old, gabriel was in and out with injury(more out), cummins debuted the game before and rtn was into the penultimate match of a six month long test career. alzarri had no one to learn from because that side was a motley crew put together to satisfy the whims of a mad man.Alzarri came into a genuinely poor team, probably the worst west indian side since the 1940s. Rabada came into a very good side with the remnants of a great team

In reply to Jumpstart

What I had suggested was that CWI send Aljo ti Oz or RSA to get the requested fast-bowling strength training a young body needs so he would not be breaking down like Taylor or early Bolt in Track. Can add India to that list now re bio- mechics. Re money I'm planning a post re CWI ineptitude and abrogation of marketing responsibilities

In reply to Brerzerk

more to australia. i don't think the cricketing culture in SA has any desire to help a dude who looks like alzarri. WI should have been investing in sporting academies since the early 90s when most of the caribbean countries started to emerge from the lost decade of the 1980s when the IMF SAP's made spending outside of bare necessities impossible. We shouldn't have to be looking to outsiders to help us when we're in trouble. the lord knows nobody came to help us when we were in trouble in the 1980s. to be fair to australia though, they've never been selfish with their cricketing knowledge and training methods

In reply to Chrissy

Well done by the great man!
He probably could have gotten their much faster without the added workload of T20s and ODIs.

According to the numbers, Rabada is the most lethal bowler that has taken 300 Test wickets, he has taken those wickets with over 700 balls less than the next most successful bowler. He is already one of the greats.

In reply to dayne

In reply to Brerzerk

or provide a scholarship or two to WI residents who are interested in the field??

Rabada is a test great. With the inequality of test cricket, he is probably going to be one of the last test greats that do not come out of India, England and Australia. Not many players from other teams are going to have the opportunity to reach 300 wickets or 5000 test runs in the future unless they are truly exceptional. For me that makes this aspect of test stats rather meaningless.

Great stats

In reply to trev114
Show them to the haterz who called him a token pick

Surely they have forgotten about Roach in all those stats

In reply to WIfan26
Fi real