best new ball pair ?

[sammy2]

Which two bowlers would you rate as being the best ever with the new ball ?

 

[Xuhaib]

Best two Pakistani I have seen are Akram & Asif.

 

[The Sean]

Turner and Ferris.

 

[Kylez]

Gilliespie and mcgrath were awsome

Not the best though

 

[TT Boy]

Which two bowlers would you rate as being the best ever with the new ball ?

Powell and Edwards.

 

[Son Of Coco]

These:

Pretty impressive, didn't know they could do that sort of thing!

 

[vic_orthdox]

Statham and Trueman.

 

[superkingdave]

Statham and Higgs

 

[archie mac]

Fosters and Barnes

 

[jondavluc]

Warne and Macgill.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Powell and Edwards.

Yeah, so obvious.

 

[fredfertang]

Larwood and Voce

 

[Pothas]

Seen a couple of excellent ones, most notably Walsh and Ambrose but Donald and Pollock who I watched in the first test I ever went to were excellent.

 

[Richard]

Lockwood and Rhodes.

 

[The Sean]

Lockwood and Rhodes.

Interesting - how often did they take the new ball together?

 

[fredfertang]

Interesting - how often did they take the new ball together?

Only once

 

[SJS]

Best two Pakistani I have seen are Akram & Asif.

I have seen them and I have seen two who were far better from Pakistan

• Imran and Sarfaraz
• Wasim and Waqar

 

[Xuhaib]

I have seen them and I have seen two who were far better from Pakistan

• Imran and Sarfaraz
• Wasim and Waqar

haha..misread the thread title for some reason I thought it was 'best new ball bowler'. Have not seen Imran & Sarfraz the bakwaas but among Wasim, Waqar, Shaoib & Asif it was Asif who was the best with the brand new cherry albeit very briefly though the other three of course mastered the old ball.

 

[Richard]

Interesting - how often did they take the new ball together?

Only once

Yup - in a very, very famous match remembered well for a superlative knock by one Gilbert Jessop and an even more remarkable last-wicket stand (which was accompanied by one of those great cricketing apocryphal lines to go with "they've come to watch me bat, not you bowl(\Umpire)", "you guys are history" and "Hersch, you've just dropped the World Cup").

(BTW I mentioned them to go along with the relatively common trait so far this thread of random pairings)

 

[roseboy64]

Will be biased and go for Walsh and Ambrose. Pretty much the entirety of the WI bowling in the latter part of their careers.