Greatest Aussie fast bowler

[smash84]

Lillee, though if Lindwall and Miller had a full career possibly not, or Ted MacDonald for that matter

what about Ronald McGrath?

 

[Nigel Benjamin]

Ben Hilfenhaus

 

[zaremba]

There's a good case to be made for Lillee, Spofforth and Turner.

But the one you've got to get past, hateful though it is to admit it, is Pigeon McGrath. Thing is, he was the opposite of the sort of ***y Wasim Akram beau ideal that we all want our fast bowlers to be. He didn't offer that much variety, he didn't bowl many unplayable deliveries, and he couldn't get the ball to swing one way, seam the other way, stop dead, ruffle the baffled batsman's hair and then boomerang at appalling velocity onto the stumps. He didn't bowl at a hundred miles an hour. But what he did, time after time, was to take key wickets cheaply, and more effectively than anyone else at a time when everything seemed stacked against bowlers.

 

[zaremba]

Greg Campbell?

I remember Martin Johnson (the cricket writer not the freakish rugby orc) writing that the 1989 Ashes squad didn't quite have the cachet of previous teams: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if Cambell don't get ya, Rackemann must"

Although Campbell's most notable claim to fame is that his nephew has made a fine career for himself as a George W Bush impersonator.

 

[Vijay.Sharma]

How can an all Aussie fast bowling line up ever not have Simon O Donnell? Well OK if u consider him as a an AR. But what about Bradley Williams and Nathan Bracken...come on now, you gotta be kidding me if these guys are not in the fray

 

[Smudge]

Scott Muller

 

[robelinda]

Scott Muller

Sachin Tendulkar CLEAN BOWLED by SCOTT MULLER! Yes THAT Scott Muller - YouTube

 

[Anil]

d-lill for me ahead of g-mac...

 

[smash84]

There's a good case to be made for Lillee, Spofforth and Turner.

But the one you've got to get past, hateful though it is to admit it, is Pigeon McGrath. Thing is, he was the opposite of the sort of ***y Wasim Akram beau ideal that we all want our fast bowlers to be. He didn't offer that much variety, he didn't bowl many unplayable deliveries, and he couldn't get the ball to swing one way, seam the other way, stop dead, ruffle the baffled batsman's hair and then boomerang at appalling velocity onto the stumps. He didn't bowl at a hundred miles an hour. But what he did, time after time, was to take key wickets cheaply, and more effectively than anyone else at a time when everything seemed stacked against bowlers.

haha......gun post

 

[G.I.Joe]

so finally somebody noticed

Yeah, I'm not buying the pretence

 

[G.I.Joe]

There's a good case to be made for Lillee, Spofforth and Turner.

But the one you've got to get past, hateful though it is to admit it, is Pigeon McGrath. Thing is, he was the opposite of the sort of ***y Wasim Akram beau ideal that we all want our fast bowlers to be. He didn't offer that much variety, he didn't bowl many unplayable deliveries, and he couldn't get the ball to swing one way, seam the other way, stop dead, ruffle the baffled batsman's hair and then boomerang at appalling velocity onto the stumps. He didn't bowl at a hundred miles an hour. But what he did, time after time, was to take key wickets cheaply, and more effectively than anyone else at a time when everything seemed stacked against bowlers.

You know your point is wasted upon the readers when this isn't the part that is bolded when being quoted.

Yes smiley, I mean you.

 

[weldone]

McGrath>Lillee>Lindwall>Davidson>Miller IMO.

 

[Burgey]

You know your point is wasted upon the readers when this isn't the part that is bolded when being quoted.

Yes smiley, I mean you.

This.

 

[Ruckus]

This.

Awta

 

[cricpk]

I only saw Mcgrath so voted for him.

 

[centurymaker]

I only saw Mcgrath so voted for him.

yeah only saw mcgrath...

 

[cricpk]

yeah only saw mcgrath...

so what's the problem if i wrote saw rather than watched? its my choice, isn't it? :P

 

[smash84]

Yeah, I'm not buying the pretence

You don't need to

You know your point is wasted upon the readers when this isn't the part that is bolded when being quoted.

Yes smiley, I mean you.

This.

Awta

My comment was meant to imply that I thought that I found it an extremely funny description (quite apt too) and not that Wasim was a greater bowler than McGrath. Where did I say Wasim was a better bowler than McGrath?

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

My list would be Lillee, Lindwall, McGrath and Davidson in that order.

 

[Himannv]

McGrath probably takes this one easily. Will throw a vote Lindwall's way. I think he's a bit underrated at times.