Who is the worst ODI bowler of all time?

[karan316]

Dernbach obviously isn't good enough, and shouldn't be in the side, but I don't think he's that bad. He often bowls at the worst times for bowlers, at the start, in the batting powerplay and at the death. He just needs to stop bowling his slower ball so often, use it as a surprise delivery, not your secondary weapon. Yorker, length, and mix in the slower stuff. He's technically pretty good, the slower ball comes out beautifully, he just doesn't have the bowling intelligence to know when to bowl the right delivery. He's a much better limited overs bowler than Mahmood, Plunkett and Onions though, and certainly not the worst ODi bowler of all-time.

Agree with you, he can execute a few deliveries really well, can bowl good yorkers, bouncers and slower ones with good change in pace. Needs to bowl a bit intelligently and keep it simple rather than trying too many things, not the worst bowler ever. He might not be able to maintain a good economy rate, but if he fine tunes his bowling a bit, he will surely pick wickets more regularly.

 

[robelinda]

Brett Dorey.

Joey Benjamin.

 

[Chook Herron]

Pysch Nkala. Daylight second, third and fourth. He may have an economy rate of "only" 5.95 but in the era he played that was far more despicable and Dernbach's rate now, and he backed that up with an average of 70 odd. He somehow managed to get selected 50 times too. He was truly, truly bad.

You should at least mention Pommie Mbangwa in the same breath as Nkala. Although Pommie had a much better test record and economy rate was slightly better, he averaged over 100 from 29 matches as a frontline bowler.

 

[luckyeddie]

Do most of the Sky guys still rate Dernbach?

For the life of me, I can't work out why. If he had one more trick that worked, he'd be a one-trick pony.

 

[kingpin]

iShant Sharma.
Dernbach.

 

[FBU]

Yadav has similar figures to Dernbach.

18 matches 20 wickets 45.80 econ 6.34 s/r 43.3 - Yadav
24 matches 31 wickets 42.19 econ 6.35 s/r 39.8 - Dernbach

 

[Maximas]

Glenn Maxwell

 

[lockton2skipper]

martin snedden !