Prince EWS
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Yeah; the poll asks who the better bowler is. It's Pollock for me regardless but I thought I'd plug his batting a little bit while I made the post.
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Dale Steyn vs Allan Donald vs Shaun Pollock
- Thread starter Mike5181
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Rasimione
U19 Captain
Growing up i used to watch Donald tearing it up with Raw pace. Intimidating the opposition. But in the Dale Steyn era, when he is on song he is unplayable. Tendulkar,dravid, laxma,Vaughn,Pujara can all attest to what he has done. Its just not pace that makes him a threat, but add the late swing and you have the best fastbowling one trick pony i have seen. Destroyed Pakistan and India in their own hoods. ATG material i dare say.
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but he has red hair
Debris
International 12th Man
Probably because there is not that much to say about the topic in the first place.
Mike5181
International Captain
Then don't post in the thread if you feel that way.
Debris
International 12th Man
No offence meant. Just that after voting and saying who your favourite is, there is not much more to say. Not all threads need to be 50 pages long to be worthwhile.
Briony
International Debutant
Donald had a great action and more height on Steyn but the latter has destroyed India a couple of times in their conditions which doesn't happen that often. His late swing can be deadly and he is an attacking bowler. Pollock seemed to be bedevilled by injury a bit and I can recall he was quite pedestrian for the last four or so years of his career but he's the best cricketing package of the trio.
KungFu_Kallis
International 12th Man
Yeah coz he can't reverse swing it, bowl a deceptive scrambled seam ball or crank up his pace to mid-high 140's or bowl bouncers or anything
Edit: Oh yay the date is Feb 2012 not Feb 2013. Haha. Googled my way here. How's Steyn tracking vs AD after 1 more year now
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Satyanash89
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He's gone past Donald's wicket tally now and id still have him about level with him. Just a personal preference, i just like bowlers who swing it both ways consistently. Steyn does have an inswinger (bowled a couple of crackerjacks in his 7 for at Nagpur iirc) but he rarely brings it out these days. Seems to instead prefer the in seamer without actually swinging it in too much.
By the time he retires, barring some ridiculous collapse in form, he'll probably be South Africa's greatest bowler ever.
That said Philander is getting truly ridiculous now and he will most definitely be up there with the greatest too.
By the time he retires, barring some ridiculous collapse in form, he'll probably be South Africa's greatest bowler ever.
That said Philander is getting truly ridiculous now and he will most definitely be up there with the greatest too.
sobers no:1
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donald
2nd greatest bowler of last 25yrs IMO (1.akram)
slightly better than ambros,mcgrath >murali>waquar, warne > steyn
pollock is a level below
2nd greatest bowler of last 25yrs IMO (1.akram)
slightly better than ambros,mcgrath >murali>waquar, warne > steyn
pollock is a level below
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The normal awards that everyone else has
ambros=really cool paramedics
Prince EWS
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There's absolutely no reason for you to post such contracted, barely readable crap like this post and your sig when you're quite clearly capable of posting properly.
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Errrr, that's an SJS post.