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Not many contemporary nominations I would have thought - although Panesar might have something to say about that in a few years time.

On the basis of stats, it's hard to look past Wilfred Rhodes with 4,000+ wickets, but was he better than Verity?
 
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Bedi is the best I've seen.

Verity & Rhodes were top class as were Blythe, Peel, Briggs & Peate from the early days.
 
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Wardle, Lock, Valentine & Mankad all deserve a mention. Underwood possibly doesn't qualify for the "slow" part of slow left arm but was a top class finger spinner. But Monty will be the best of the lot in a few years.
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Originally posted by Wide Wally:
Wardle, Lock, Valentine & Mankad all deserve a mention. Underwood possibly doesn't qualify for the "slow" part of slow left arm but was a top class finger spinner.
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Of left-armers I have seen , he was the most destructive, but I take your point about him not being a classical leftie


But Monty will be the best of the lot in a few years.
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He'll need to be! Roll Eyes
 
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Underwood is probably the last major bowler who was able to take advantage of uncovered pitches. If wickets were suddenly left uncovered again today I doubt if most bowlers, certainly not most English bowlers, would know what to do with them.
 
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Jayasuriya has been a successful left arm spinner!
 
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