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

[Red]

Warnes standard leg break and the mystery one he’d tell media he was working on before every summer

 

[Engle]

The snake ball followed by the in-swinging full toss will leave the batsman beguiled, bewildered and bamboozled.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

No balls and wides for big money from spot fixers.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Warnes standard leg break and the mystery one he’d tell media he was working on before every summer

This is actually a great call. All you'd need is those 2 balls, the big leg break and the straight ball that looks just like a big leg break and you absolutely clean up

 

[karan_fromthestands]

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.

Exactly!! Even though some people can bowl it with a fair bit of accuracy and yorkers with movement are tough to deal with, there will be plenty of scoring opportunities for the batsmen, especially in longer formats.

 

[honestbharani]

This is actually a great call. All you'd need is those 2 balls, the big leg break and the straight ball that looks just like a big leg break and you absolutely clean up

To make it more generic, any time you can get the ball to do different things but with the same action and release, you are golden.

 

[Shri]

leggie and googly

 

[cnerd123]

An offbreak and a straighter one

 

[TheJediBrah]

To make it more generic, any time you can get the ball to do different things but with the same action and release, you are golden.

Which would be pretty rare I would have thought, outside of natural variation

 

[Daemon]

Which would be pretty rare I would have thought, outside of natural variation

Have you met Ravindra Jadeja

 

[TheJediBrah]

Have you met Ravindra Jadeja

isn't that just natural variation

 

[Daemon]

Sorry I misread your post, glossed over it like I usually do

 

[TheJediBrah]

Sorry I misread your post, glossed over it like I usually do

tbf definitely the best way to do things if you insist on putting yourself through reading one of my posts

 

[Daemon]

tbf definitely the best way to do things if you insist on putting yourself through reading one of my posts

Have you met Ravindra Jadeja

 

[honestbharani]

Which would be pretty rare I would have thought, outside of natural variation

Rashid Khan is the closest I have seen. And Anderson's wrist snap is hard to pick at point of delivery.

 

[Daemon]

Saeed Ajmal’s elbow snap was pretty hard to pick up as well

 

[Burgey]

Bouncer, outswinger

 

[TheJediBrah]

Rashid Khan is the closest I have seen. And Anderson's wrist snap is hard to pick at point of delivery.

Maybe Mohammad Asif or Glenn McGrath cutters off the pitch. Nigh impossible to play those but not sure to what extent they were deliberate, and how much was just natural variation. McGrath always claimed that he would hold the seam different ways for leg and off cutters but I'm not convinced that it was anything more than just hitting the seam and hoping it would move.

 

[cnerd123]

Bouncer, outswinger

at your age the bouncers would bounce twice

 

[fredfertang]

A breakback at speed is all you need