If you can bowl just 2 types of deliveries in test matches, what would they be?

[karan_fromthestands]

As a right arm pace bowler, I would pick the out swinger and leg cutter. So much can be done with these two deliveries if you know how to create the correct angles to trouble the batsmen.

I wouldn't go for the in-swinger because you have to be super accurate to get it right and the room for error is minimal. Plus you can't get too creative with it either for e.g. If you are a right arm bowler, you can't really go round the wicket and bowl in-swingers, the batsmen can easily score runs by keeping it simple and playing straight down the ground.

What do you guys think? What would you pick if you could bowl just two type of deliveries in tests?

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

1. That one Harris bowled to Cook
2. A beamer

 

[karan_fromthestands]

1. That one Harris bowled to Cook
2. A beamer

Basically what Sreesanth bowls you mean? Mixing absolute peaches with totally thrash deliveries.

 

[Dan]

If you're a right arm quick, has to be the outswinger to the RHB and the one that nips back off the seam at full pace. Outswing gives you the option of channel bowling for the caught behind, while the threat of the ball decking back means that leaving on the fourth stump line is riskier than if you only had the away-moving option.

Left arm quicks would be the inswinger to the RHB and who cares what else you've got when you can do that consistently. For spinners it's the stock ball and the stock ball with slightly more bounce, I guess, to ensure you're not overly sweep-able.

 

[Flem274*]

bouncers and yorkers

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Long hop, full bunger

 

[Gnske]

I'll raise RTB with

1. Anderson to Braithwaite
2. Johnson to Faf

The second being my favourite I've ever seen live.

 

[trundler]

bouncers and yorkers

Calm down Brett Lee

 

[Line and Length]

My stock ball as a r/h pace bowler worked well enough (particularly against l/h bats) but i would have loved to have had an outswinger that was consistent.

 

[Pup Clarke]

 

[Smudge]

Calm down Brett Lee

You forgot his third key delivery - the "accidental" beamer.

 

[cnerd123]

Long hop, full bunger

this but unironically

bouncers and yorkers

a true wagner fan would have gone bouncers and bouncers

 

[karan_fromthestands]

this but unironically


a true wagner fan would have gone bouncers and bouncers

Or innocuous looking bouncers mixed with bouncers that can give you brain damage(Andy Roberts)

 

[weldone]

I'll bowl the banana yorker Waqar bowled to Lara followed by the legspin Warne bowled to Gatting.

 

[crus07]

As a leggie I would bowl the regular leg break and wrong one!

 

[Son Of Coco]

Allan Border's arm ball and Matthew Wade's bouncer.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

The problem with bouncers and yorkers is that they’re not easy to bowl effectively so if that’s all you’ve got you’re going to concede a lot of runs for few wickets.
I’d just take Glenn McGrath’s stock ball outside of stump and count the wickets.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Trevor Chappell's underarm and Abdur Rehman's SLA beamer.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I used to bowl the doosra...It was fun deceiving batsmen.

1. Mankad
2. Doosra

 

[sumantra]

I'll bowl the banana yorker Waqar bowled to Lara followed by the legspin Warne bowled to Gatting.

That ball of the century as they say actually was made so by getting's inability to play spin bowling, he was standing nowhere...any good batsman of spin (like Sachin or Laxman) would have simply offered their pads, way outside leg stump, end of the story...