Best Fast Bowlers

[a massive zebra]

Who do you think are the best fast bowlers ever for each Test playing nation? Here are mine:

Australia: Glenn McGrath
Bangladesh: Mushrafe Mortaza
England: Fred Trueman
India: Kapil Dev
New Zealand: Richard Hadlee
Pakistan: Wasim Akram
South Africa: Alan Donald
Sri Lanka: Chaminda Vaas
West Indies: Malcolm Marshall
Zimbabwe: Heath Streak

 

[badgerhair]

Who do you think are the best fast bowlers ever for each Test playing nation? Here are mine:

Australia: Glenn McGrath
Bangladesh: Mushrafe Mortaza
England: Fred Trueman
India: Kapil Dev
New Zealand: Richard Hadlee
Pakistan: Wasim Akram
South Africa: Alan Donald
Sri Lanka: Chaminda Vaas
West Indies: Malcolm Marshall
Zimbabwe: Heath Streak

Wouldn't have thought there was much debate about that lot, except the first, where plenty of people would nominate Lillee or Lindwall rather than McGrath.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[chris.hinton]

McGrath is the greatest Fast Bowler Ever

 

[chicane]

Tapash Baisya is Bangladesh's best fast bowler.

 

[badgerhair]

McGrath is the greatest Fast Bowler Ever

With a career bowling average of 14.00 and a strike rate of 25.5, you may well be right, but I wouldn't really call him "fast". Dibby-dobby medium pacer, I'd have said.

Or were you talking about Glenn, Australia's fourth-best fast bowler?

Cheers,

Mike

 

[superkingdave]

With a career bowling average of 14.00 and a strike rate of 25.5, you may well be right, but I wouldn't really call him "fast". Dibby-dobby medium pacer, I'd have said.

Or were you talking about Glenn, Australia's fourth-best fast bowler?

Cheers,

Mike

Ha Ha, i bet there's not that many people who would be too unhappy with a batting average of 40 and a bowling average of 14!- Worlds best Alrounder?

 

[a massive zebra]

Wouldn't have thought there was much debate about that lot, except the first, where plenty of people would nominate Lillee or Lindwall rather than McGrath.

Well Rod Marsh said that despite his obvious class, Lillee had a weakness against left-handers and was not that great at running through the tail due to the lack of a good yorker. As a matter of fact McGrath was the more consistent and reliable bowler.

I don't know enough about Lindwall for a comparison but he supposedly had a great action and took a higher percentage of his wickets as bowled than anyone else with over 200 Test wickets. However, he really should have managed to take 10 wickets in a match if he was as good as McGrath or Lillee, and his strike rate is not in the elite bracket.

 

[a massive zebra]

Tapash Baisya is Bangladesh's best fast bowler.

Please justify picking someone with 28 Test wickets @ 54.46 over someone with 29 @ 35.96...

 

[a massive zebra]

McGrath is the greatest Fast Bowler Ever

I don't think so. Malcolm Marshall for me. He had everything McGrath has got and more.

 

[Langeveldt]

Australia - Glenn McGrath
Bangladesh - Hasibul Hossain
England - Fred Truman
India - Javagal Srinath
New Zealand - Richard Hadlee
Pakistan - Wasim Akram
Sri Lanka - Chaminda Vaas
South Africa - Allan Donald
West Indies - Michael Holding
Zimbabwe - Heath Streak

 

[Neil Pickup]

You don't actually know anything about Bangladeshi cricket, do you, Rich?

Next: Most Likely to use bat when facing Pedro Collins: Hannan Sarkar?

 

[marc71178]

All these best of all time threads makes me wonder how many people would've entered AlFtA had it been started now...

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

All these best of all time threads makes me wonder how many people would've entered AlFtA had it been started now...

To further the promo...

A League for the Ages 2

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

India - Javagal Srinath

West Indies - Michael Holding

Interesting, considering that Kapil Dev has a better averages, economy and SR than Srinath, as well as a higher rate of 5w hauls.

Also interesting that Malcolm Marshall has a better SR, economy, average, wickets per match, rate of 5w hauls, rate of 10w hauls than Michael Holding.

The of course there's the discarded Bangladeshi - Hasibul Hossain... you are a strange one Rich.

 

[masterblaster]

Without a doubt, Kapil Dev is the greatest fast bowler in Indian Cricket History.

Srinath comes in at a honorable second place.

 

[Bapu Rao Swami]

England - Fred trueman

Australia - Dennis Lillee, Glenn Mcgraa and Alan Davidson

India - Kapil Dev

Pakistan - Waseem Akram, Imran Khan, Sarfaraz Nawaz, and Waqar Younis

South Africa - Alan Donald, Shaun Pollock, and Neil Adcock

New Zealand - Hadlee, Bond, and Bruce Taylor

 

[Waughney]

Australia - Glenn McGrath
Bangladesh - Tapash Baisya
England - Fred Truman
India - Kapil Dev
New Zealand - Richard Hadlee
Pakistan - Wasim Akram
Sri Lanka - Chaminda Vaas
South Africa - Allan Donald
West Indies - Malcom Marshall
Zimbabwe - Heath Streak

 

[Scallywag]

Australia Lillee
Pakistan Imran
England Willis
WI Garner
India Kumble
NZ Hadlee
SA Donald

 

[Waughney]

India- Kumble

It's meant to be fast bowlers.

 

[luckyeddie]

It's meant to be fast bowlers.

He's faster than Bedi