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Best ever medium pacer?

tony p

First Class Debutant
Test wise, Alec Bedser, Terry Alderman, Vernon Philander.

Cricket in general,
Tom Cartwright.
Derek Shackleton
Alec Kennedy
Trevor Bailey.
Ewart Astill
Maurice Tate.

They could all bowl quicker spells, but were regarded as medium-pace, very occasionally fast-medium.
 

Pup Clarke

Cricketer Of The Year
Trent Copeland on his debut v SL in 2011 - rarely got the ball over 120ks. Looks a fair bit quicker in recent Shield footage

EDIT : I mean he's obvs not the best, just immediately stood out as a genuine medium pace front-line bowler
 
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Kirkut

International Regular
Praveen Kumar was gun against ATG English batting line up. Pollock is probably the best ever medium pacer
 

Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
Praveen Kumar was gun against ATG English batting line up. Pollock is probably the best ever medium pacer
Pollock would have been medium fast at his worst. He bowled some off cutters in SL, and those were clocked at 70-75mph. That is the slowest I have seen bowling him.

On his heyday, Pollock was genuinely fast.
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Trent Copeland on his debut v SL in 2011 - rarely got the ball over 120ks. Looks a fair bit quicker in recent Shield footage
Nah that's more or less what he bowls. He's tall and uses his height well so can look quicker off the deck in Aus, by he bowls low to mid 120s.
 

Bolo.

International Vice-Captain
It's hard thinking of guys I would call medium from the era of speedguns who played more than a couple of games. Of the guys mentioned on this page, Kumar is definetly a medium-fast in my definition, Ealham (who I dont remember) is listed as a medium-fast, and Pollock ranged from pure fast to medium-fast.

I can only really think of Cronje and Waugh who had proper length careers and werent rubbish.
 

Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
Gavin "the postman" Larsen was one of the best middle-over economical bowlers of the 1990s (e/r of 3.76). He only played 8 tests but took 24 wickets at 28.7 (e/r of 2.10).
 

Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
Gavin "the postman" Larsen was one of the best middle-over economical bowlers of the 1990s (e/r of 3.76). He only played 8 tests but took 24 wickets at 28.7 (e/r of 2.10).
Larsen bowled slow in ODIs, just the right pace so the batsmen cannot use the pace of the ball on the shots or line him up for big drives. Have seen him getting to mid 130s in test cricket though. Essentially at the brisker end of medium fast, but can get in to fast medium territory easily.
 

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