Top 10 Pace Bowlers Ever

[Richard]

They agreed that Australia wanted to win Test-matches, though, and this allowed them to put aside their countless other differences.

 

[Manee]

I have probably missed someone out because I always do but here is my verdict:

Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Glenn McGrath
Chaminda Vaas
Curltly Ambrose
Joel Garner
Shoaib Akhtar
Dennis Lillie
Malcom Marshall
Allan Donald

 

[BhupinderSingh]

Chaminda Vaas


Shoaib Akhtar

There would be atleast 50 test bowlers better than those two.

 

[Manee]

There would be atleast 50 test bowlers better than those two.

I do not agree that there is more than nine better than Chaminda Vaas and scrap Akhtar for Imran, though I would have Akhtar highly due to his ability to roll over teams.

 

[BhupinderSingh]

I do not agree that there is more than nine better than Chaminda Vaas and scrap Akhtar for Imran, though I would have Akhtar highly due to his ability to roll over teams.

About Akhtar,he might make Top 50 but Vaas is nowhere near being Top 50.

 

[Manee]

About Akhtar,he might make Top 50 but Vaas is nowhere near being Top 50.

He has for many years carried Sri Lankan opening bowling and not only that but he has done a fine job too. Stats aside (thought I'd never have to say that), he was and to a lesser extent still is a fantastic opening bowler in both forms of the game.

 

[BhupinderSingh]

He has for many years carried Sri Lankan opening bowling and not only that but he has done a fine job too. Stats aside (thought I'd never have to say that), he was and to a lesser extent still is a fantastic opening bowler in both forms of the game.

Vaas is a very fine bowler but mostly,he gets the fruit of Murali's labour by taking some cheap wickets at the other end while Murali does the real job.

 

[Beleg]

BhupinderSingh,

the real job being?

 

[Manee]

Vaas is a very fine bowler but mostly,he gets the fruit of Murali's labour by taking some cheap wickets at the other end while Murali does the real job.

No he doesnt, he gets most of his wickets with the new ball.

 

[BhupinderSingh]

BhupinderSingh,

the real job being?

Taking not only important but truckloads of wickets.

 

[Sanz]

BhupinderSingh,

the real job being?

 

[Richard]

He has for many years carried Sri Lankan opening bowling and not only that but he has done a fine job too. Stats aside (thought I'd never have to say that), he was and to a lesser extent still is a fantastic opening bowler in both forms of the game.

I disagree TBH. Vaas can be the best bowler going around, bar none. He can also be someone who offers absolutely no penetration whatsoever.

This changes often, from series to series, from game to game, for no apparent reason. Vaas is almost the complete seam-bowler, really - he can bowl everything, seam, cutters in both directions, conventional-inswing, conventional-outswing, reverse-inswing, reverse-outswing, Yorkers, Bouncers, slower deliveries, over and around the wicket, equally well at left- and right-handers... the ole kaboodle. Only thing he's ever lacked is that few mph, but even that has never mattered as we all know 80mph is plenty enough for a top-notch bowler.

If he had had more good games (and he had loads of them) and less outright awful ones (he has loads of them too) he'd be the best seamer ever, bar none, even Malcolm Marshall.

 

[Manee]

I disagree TBH. Vaas can be the best bowler going around, bar none. He can also be someone who offers absolutely no penetration whatsoever.

This changes often, from series to series, from game to game, for no apparent reason. Vaas is almost the complete seam-bowler, really - he can bowl everything, seam, cutters in both directions, conventional-inswing, conventional-outswing, reverse-inswing, reverse-outswing, Yorkers, Bouncers, slower deliveries, over and around the wicket, equally well at left- and right-handers... the ole kaboodle. Only thing he's ever lacked is that few mph, but even that has never mattered as we all know 80mph is plenty enough for a top-notch bowler.

If he had had more good games (and he had loads of them) and less outright awful ones (he has loads of them too) he'd be the best seamer ever, bar none, even Malcolm Marshall.

Good point but I feel that the respect you have given to him in that post shows he is worthy of the top ten.

 

[Richard]

That's the thing, though - as I say, he can be top-ten one game, and bottom-ten the next. He's so damn difficult to rate.

I mean, I love him to bits and have done from the very first time I ever saw him bowl. But it's hard to give a rating to a bowler who changes so often.