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Top 20 bowlers of alltime

BhupinderSingh

BhupinderSingh

Banned
  1. Imran Khan
  2. Richard Hadlee
  3. Malcom Marshall
  4. Wasim Akram
  5. Glenn McGrath
  6. Curtley Ambrose
  7. Bill O'Reilly
  8. Sidney Barnes
  9. Allan Donald
  10. Muttiah Muralitharan
  11. Joel Garner
  12. Ray Lindwall
  13. Waqar Younis
  14. Shane Warne
  15. Michael Holding
  16. Dennis Lillee
  17. Andy Roberts
  18. Alan Davidson
  19. Fred Trueman
  20. Colin Croft
Unlucky to miss-out:Statham,Lohmann,Kumble,Larwood,Dev,Fazal Mahmood,Verity,Bedser,Spofforth,Lock & a few others.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
England have produced a good few seamers better than Colin Croft IMO.

Anyway, my standpoint has always been pretty clear on these sorts of issues - no real point in trying to break things down as exactly as far as this.
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
  1. McGrath
  2. Marshall
  3. Barnes
  4. Ambrose
  5. Trueman
  6. Hadlee
  7. Imran
  8. Lillee
  9. Lindwall
  10. Holding
  11. Donald
  12. Garner
  13. Roberts
  14. Akram
  15. Davidson
  16. Spofforth
  17. Walsh
  18. Larwood
  19. Miller
  20. Pollock

Can't be bothered to rate those annoying step-and-fetch-it bowlers.
 
pasag

pasag

RTDAS
Would like to see Larwood in some lists, one of the best ever for mine despite what the stats say.

Edit: Nice from SS, also good to see Spofforth featuring.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Had one of the most influential series ever, sure, but for the rest of his career before Bodyline he didn't really do much of great note.

He may well have been the very first "speed-of-light" (as Kev once put it) bowler but a truly outstanding one - at Test level anyway, there's no doubting his prowess in domestic cricket - he wasn't.
 
Sanz

Sanz

Hall of Fame Member
silentstriker said:
  1. McGrath
  2. Marshall
  3. Barnes
  4. Ambrose
  5. Trueman
  6. Hadlee
  7. Imran
  8. Lillee
  9. Lindwall
  10. Holding
  11. Donald
  12. Garner
  13. Roberts
  14. Akram
  15. Davidson
  16. Spofforth
  17. Walsh
  18. Larwood
  19. Miller
  20. Pollock

Can't be bothered to rate those annoying step-and-fetch-it bowlers.
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No Spinners ?
 
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funnygirl

State Regular
Can't be bothered to rate those annoying step-and-fetch-it bowlers.
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Thats an irony, from a person who put the most annoying /boring fast bowler ever in the history of the game in the first place.8-)
 
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Ikki

Ikki

Hall of Fame Member
silentstriker said:
  1. McGrath
  2. Marshall
  3. Barnes
  4. Ambrose
  5. Trueman
  6. Hadlee
  7. Imran
  8. Lillee
  9. Lindwall
  10. Holding
  11. Donald
  12. Garner
  13. Roberts
  14. Akram
  15. Davidson
  16. Spofforth
  17. Walsh
  18. Larwood
  19. Miller
  20. Pollock

Can't be bothered to rate those annoying step-and-fetch-it bowlers.
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Warne owns all.
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
funnygirl said:
Thats an irony, from a person who put the most annoying /boring fast bowler ever in the history of the game in the first place.8-)
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Annoyance is an opinion, and I certainly do not share it.

Sanz said:
Is it possible that I just wanted to make sure that SS really didn't mean that ?
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Yup, don't like spinners, and don't much want to rate them. Both Murali and Warne (along with O'Reilly, Laker, etc) would be somewhere in there if I had to put a couple down though.

KaZoH0lic said:
Warne owns all.
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No, he certainly does not. He wasn't the best bowler on his own team (though obviously thats forgivable).
 
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Perm

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
funnygirl said:
Am i wrong or too many similar threads8-)
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funnygirl said:
Thats an irony, from a person who put the most annoying /boring fast bowler ever in the history of the game in the first place.8-)
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Harsh. Two roll-eyes from the same poster and not even a page of discussion.

Anyway, agree with your first post but disagree with your second. This thread just seems another way that BhupinderSingh can tell us all how much he loves Imran Khan,
 
grecian

grecian

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Perm said:
Anyway, agree with your first post but disagree with your second. This thread just seems another way that BhupinderSingh can tell us all how much he loves Imran Khan,
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Indeed, I look forward to the "Best bowler/all-rounder/supreme-being who gets tediously impersonated by Dermot Reeve?" thread.
 
archie mac

archie mac

International Coach
I am waiting until someone starts 'my top 50 bowlers of all time', think I should be able to include most of the ones I rate, but not in order mind:@ :laugh:
 
Matt79

Matt79

Global Moderator
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
In order of their test debut year

  1. Spofforth, Frederick R
  2. Lohmann, George A
  3. Blythe, Colin
  4. Barnes, Sydney F
  5. Grimmett, Clarence V
  6. Larwood, Harold
  7. O'Reilly, William J
  8. Lindwall, Raymond R
  9. Trueman, Frederick S
  10. Lillee, Dennis K
  11. Imran Khan
  12. Hadlee, Richard J
  13. Roberts, Anderson M E
  14. Holding, Michael A
  15. Marshall, Malcolm D
  16. Wasim Akram
  17. Ambrose, Curtly E L
  18. Muralitharan, Muttiah
  19. Donald, Allan A
  20. Warne, Shane K
 
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