There's a Curtly Ambrose playing for Lower Middlewallop thirds so best to avoid confusion.
My initial reaction to this was Ambrose, understandably as English fans have been as traumatised as our batsmen by the fearsome sight of this great bowler.
But McGrath doesn't have a blip on his record like Ambrose's against India. Nor was the latter tested on Indian wickets where McGrath has an outstanding record. McGrath also has a better strike rate.
When people talk about McGrath as boring I think they're referring to avery metronomic action that lacks some of the flair of other fast bowlers. But his mastery of seam bowling was as complete as I think is humanly possible, and was was really well demonstrated by an excellent piece of analysis on (I think) Channel 4 a few years back.
Both well above the threshold of greatness though, so we're talking fine margins.
My initial reaction to this was Ambrose, understandably as English fans have been as traumatised as our batsmen by the fearsome sight of this great bowler.
But McGrath doesn't have a blip on his record like Ambrose's against India. Nor was the latter tested on Indian wickets where McGrath has an outstanding record. McGrath also has a better strike rate.
When people talk about McGrath as boring I think they're referring to avery metronomic action that lacks some of the flair of other fast bowlers. But his mastery of seam bowling was as complete as I think is humanly possible, and was was really well demonstrated by an excellent piece of analysis on (I think) Channel 4 a few years back.
Both well above the threshold of greatness though, so we're talking fine margins.
