It will surprise no-one that the three most successful bowlers in Tests against SA are all spinners‚ nor that two of them are from the subcontinent. The mitigating factor is that all three could bowl a bit. They are‚ in order of wickets taken against the South Africans‚ Shane Warne‚ Muttiah Muralitharan and Anil Kumble. Arrange the same names differently — Muralitharan, Warne and Kumble — and you have‚ in that order‚ the top three wicket-takers in Test history‚ who between them are responsible for making 2,127 batsman trudge defeated back to dressing rooms around the world. But the theory that South Africans are poor players of spin bowling persists and will no doubt be dusted off and given a fresh coat of opinion for the series of two Tests in Sri Lanka‚ which starts in Galle on July 12. Indeed‚ Aiden Markram came prepared on the subject at a media conference in Colombo on Thursday. "Any subcontinent conditions are going to be a very difficult challenge to SA‚" Markram admitted. "I...
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