Who's the best Indian bowler ever?

[BhupinderSingh]

Kapil Dev

 

[jammay123]

kapil dev best quick and kumble best spinner

 

[pup11]

Prasana is easily the best Indian bowler ever to play the game and i dare say he is among the top 5 spinners in the history of the game, he was truly a magician.

 

[Ikki]

Between Kumble and Dev.

 

[Bouncer]

Javagal Srinath, This guy never got the credit he deserved. worked like a horse for India, always seemed to be most threatening Indian bowlers and i am surprised he has got only my vote out of 8 votes.

 

[Julian87]

Mohanty.

 

[Richard]

Prasana is easily the best Indian bowler ever to play the game and i dare say he is among the top 5 spinners in the history of the game, he was truly a magician.

You sure you don't mean Chandrasekhar?

Bedi was easily a superior fingerspinner to Prasanna, and Chandra was a wristspinner, suggesting he could of times be better than both.

 

[Perm]

Probably be Mohammad Nissar or Amar Singh, just a shame they never got much of an opportunity to prove themselves at Test level.

 

[Richard]

Anyway, TBH I'd have to go Kapil Dev. It comes down to him or Chandrasekhar IMO, with Kumble and Bedi the next in line, and I'd almost always go for a seamer ahead of even a wristspinner unless the wristspinner is a superhuman Warne\Murali\Grimmett\Benaud\etc. (and if the seamer is a superhuman Marshall\Hadlee\etc. then the seamer easily again), so Kapil it is.

It's a great shame Nissar and Amar Singh didn't get more than the odd Test every 3 years in their day, though, a very great shame. Otherwise they could quite possibly have been recognised to be far better than anyone else. EDIT: as someone says pretty effectively just above as I was posting.

 

[Perm]

EDIT: as someone says pretty effectively just above as I was posting.

 

[chaminda_00]

Chandershekhar for mine, always go for spinner over a seamer when it close call.

 

[Matt79]

Gone for Kapil because I think he produced what he did despite almost all the factors working against him. Otherwise (or for spinners) it would be Kumble and Bedi.

 

[Richard]

always go for spinner over a seamer when it close call.

 

[shortpitched713]

I'd almost always go for a seamer ahead of even a wristspinner unless the wristspinner is a superhuman Warne\Murali\Grimmett\Benaud\etc.

Never knew you rated Benaud that highly. Could you have possibly been meaning Grimmett?

 

[Richard]

Benaud's well acknowledged as one of the few ever to bowl wristspin with the requistite accuracy, while not sacrificing spin.

I mentioned Grimmett in the same post. I could have mentioned an odd few others, too.

 

[Perm]

Never knew you rated Benaud that highly. Could you have possibly been meaning Grimmett?

Or O'Reilly?

 

[shortpitched713]

Or O'Reilly?

Haha, yeah thats the one.

 

[Richard]

Well by common consent O'Reilly > Benaud, but Benaud was hardly bad, and it gets boring if everyone always says the same 4 names (Murali, Warne, Grimmett and O'Reilly), so I chucked Richie in for a bit of variation.

 

[archie mac]

Prasana is easily the best Indian bowler ever to play the game and i dare say he is among the top 5 spinners in the history of the game, he was truly a magician.

Well how come I am the only one who voted for him

 

[shortpitched713]

Well by common consent O'Reilly > Benaud, but Benaud was hardly bad, and it gets boring if everyone always says the same 4 names (Murali, Warne, Grimmett and O'Reilly), so I chucked Richie in for a bit of variation.

Yeah, but its interesting that you'd characterize him as superhuman. Unless of course you also consider someone like Tony Lock superhuman. And hes not even a wristspinner.