shravi
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Warne, Murali, Vettori, Kaneria are just a few names that come to mind over recent years. Basically just England, South Africa and West Indies
They may have those spinners but they did not experience much success in India, here is a breakdown of those players' career averages comapred with their averages against India, in India. The first number is their career average while their second average is against India, in India. This is only in test matches.
Shane Warne- 25.41; 43.11
Muttiah Muralitharan- 21.96; 39.58
Daniel Vettori- 33.09; 51.52
Danish Kaneria- 33.90; 39.58
Danish Kaneria is the only one out of those spinners who has experienced any sort of success. To boot, this is only success on his own scale, not the overall scale used for all bowlers.
Now compare that with Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh's figures in India. Once again, overall stats coming first and only in India stats (vs all teams) coming second.
Anil Kumble- 29.65; 24.88
Harbhajan Singh- 30.88; 26.77
Not only are their averages better than the rest of the aforementioned bowlers, it is actually an improvement on their career average.
All of this leads us to believe that the opposition teams have the spinners to do well, they just do not exploit the spinner-friendly conditions as well as they could, or should.
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