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Best Fast Bowler 1992-2007

Who is the best fast bowler according to you?

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Pratters

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Who is the best fast bowler of the last 15 years according to you?
 
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Fiery

Fiery

Banned
Wasim Akram.
Not sure what Ian Bishop and Jason Gillespie is doing in that company and Glenn McGrath was never a fast bowler...but I know I'm being pedantic
 
nightprowler10

nightprowler10

Global Moderator
Has to be between Donald, McGrath, Ambrose, and Akram really.

Statistically I'd put these four in this order:

1) Ambrose
2) McGrath
3) Donald
4) Akram

But going by personal preference it's more like:

1) Akram
2) Ambrose
3) McGrath
4) Donald
 
Pratters

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Fiery said:
Not sure what Ian Bishop and Jason Gillespie is doing in that company
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Ian Bishop was amazing and could have been one of the greatest Windies fast bowlers ever had he not been injured. Jason Gillespie was pretty good - just look at his record.
 
Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
Glenn Mcgrath combined accuracy with an ability to extract movement and bounce off dustbowls. He would make the batsman play at almost every delivery and when the ball got old, could still hit the seam. Later in his career he added swing to his repotoire and remmained one of the best bowlers in the world right until his retirements. Most others have veered off somewhat but Mcgrath was top from start to end.
 
andyc

andyc

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Glenn McGrath. Forget Warne, he's the most complete bowler I've ever seen.
 
Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
Before anyone says that he is not quick enough, just remember that the speed gun does not do him justice. More batsman were late on his deliveries than Brett Lee's, Mcgrath got a subtle but noticeable kick off the pitch, achieved by standing up high in the action and this kick, combined with subtle seam movement gave him the hundreds of caught behinds and bowleds he had in his career.
 
Pratters

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Manee said:
Most others have veered off somewhat but Mcgrath was top from start to end.
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That is an excellent point Manee. Some one like Younis was more lethal earlier compared to a Walsh who was more lethal later in his career.

McGrath delivered all through... pretty much similar to Ambrose in that regard.

McGrath v Ambrose
 
Pratters

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
One stat I found which favours Ambrose -

Ambrose was more effective in drawn matches and series compared to McGrath stats wise (although the series sample sizes are lower and such stats should be taken with a lot of salt) :

McGrath
Ambrose

Code: 
matches won           84 3296.4  7945 414  8/24  10/27   19.19  2.41  47.7 18  3
                      44 1695.3  3863 229  8/45  11/84   16.86  2.27  44.4 13  3
matches drawn         20  784.5  2162  62  8/38   9/103  [B]34.87[/B]  2.75  75.9  4  0
                      28  983.5  2108  81  5/35   7/90   [B]26.02[/B]  2.14  72.8  5  0
matches lost          20  793.1  2079  87  7/76   9/220  23.89  2.62  54.7  7  0
                      26 1004.3  2530  95  6/51   8/79   26.63  2.51  63.4  4  0
in series lost        12  455.2  1246  51  5/53   9/82   24.43  2.73  53.5  2  0
                      19  611    1467  63  6/51   9/65   23.28  2.40  58.1  4  0
in series drawn       10  432.5  1066  41  5/28  10/78   [B]26.00[/B]  2.46  63.3  4  1
                      21  857.5  2120  92  6/52   8/101  [B]23.04[/B]  2.47  55.9  5  0
in series won        102 3986.3  9874 471  8/24  10/27   20.96  2.47  50.7 23  2
                      58 2215    4914 250  8/45  11/84   19.65  2.21  53.1 13  3
 
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Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
Pratyush said:
One stat I found which favours Ambrose -

Ambrose was more effective in drawn matches and series compared to McGrath stats wise (although the series sample sizes are lower and such stats should be taken with a lot of salt) :

McGrath
Ambrose

Code: 
matches won           84 3296.4  7945 414  8/24  10/27   19.19  2.41  47.7 18  3
                      44 1695.3  3863 229  8/45  11/84   16.86  2.27  44.4 13  3
matches drawn         20  784.5  2162  62  8/38   9/103  [B]34.87[/B]  2.75  75.9  4  0
                      28  983.5  2108  81  5/35   7/90   [B]26.02[/B]  2.14  72.8  5  0
matches lost          20  793.1  2079  87  7/76   9/220  23.89  2.62  54.7  7  0
                      26 1004.3  2530  95  6/51   8/79   26.63  2.51  63.4  4  0

in series lost        12  455.2  1246  51  5/53   9/82   24.43  2.73  53.5  2  0
                      19  611    1467  63  6/51   9/65   23.28  2.40  58.1  4  0
in series drawn       10  432.5  1066  41  5/28  10/78   [B]26.00[/B]  2.46  63.3  4  1
                      21  857.5  2120  92  6/52   8/101  [B]23.04[/B]  2.47  55.9  5  0
in series won        102 3986.3  9874 471  8/24  10/27   20.96  2.47  50.7 23  2
                      58 2215    4914 250  8/45  11/84   19.65  2.21  53.1 13  3
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Put them in CODE tags, see how much better it looks.
 
Fiery

Fiery

Banned
Pratyush said:
I suggest you brush up a bit of recent cricket history mate because to say that Bishop was not amazing is nothing shot of ludicrous. Watch some tapes, read a bit or some thing.
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He's not "amazing" mate. Brush up on your definition of the word. I watched his whole career btw
 
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