Seriously, apart from probably Ian Salisbury, I can't think of a spinner more horrible than Tahir in tests. He seems to be pretty good in ODI and T20. But in tests, his record speaks for itself. Not to mention, his bowling is comically bad. You can't even give the excuse that he plays on tracks not conducive for spin since he keeps bowling his full toss tripe taking the darn pitch out of the equation. I haven't seen a part-timer treated the way he was in Australia by Pup and co. Going at over 7 an over is inexcusable regardless of any pitch.
 

Mat 	Inns 	Overs 	Mdns 	Runs 	Wkts 	BBI 	BBM 	Ave 	Econ 	SR 	5 	10 	
15 	29 	530.1 	71 	1878 	39 	5/32 	8/130 	48.15 	3.54 	81.5 	1 	0

Even in this series, which has spin friendly tracks, Duminy has more wickets at a much healthier average than him. Duminy even has a better test bowling average than him. If you even give a cursory glance across his record, he doesn't average under 35 against any side except Pakistan who oughta be embarassed to give this chump an 8-fer.

Robin Peterson is mediocre but Tahir is just hopeless in tests. I hope Saffers chuck him out and play an extra pacer with Duminy as the spinner and Elgar as the part-timer.

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