Robert Craddock
👤 SpeakerVoice Profile Active
This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Arafat Minhas, who was 19 years old, on Dabu, that old-fashioned left-arm spinner who has taken, modelled his game on Ravi Jadeja with that quickness through the air.
Like, in the old era, Gerard, we remember guys like Bishan Bedi, left-arms, who floated the ball up.
The modern trend in India is to get it in there, and he was terrific.
Five wickets on Dabu.
He completely bamboozled Marnus Labouchagne and Cam Green.
Green was bold, Labouchagne, LBW were sort of quick balls.
And I just think from next year,
Australia's got five tests in India and Indian selectors would have seen that and thought, oh, we like that.
We want more of that in next year's test series.
Those boys tested by, you know, just subtle variations of left arm spin.
I've got to say Arafat was absolutely outstanding.
He was very, very good.
It was quite telling, actually, because they were beautiful balls that got both of them.
And Ollie Peake, of course, made his taboo.
He scored seven off 16.
And it was funny, Gerard.
Like, he's the youngest sort of debutant since Ricky Ponting.