archie mac
International Coach
No rope in those days either, or those new sweet spot bats
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Who is the best pace bowler of all time?
- Thread starter Cameron-Moss
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Athlai
Not Terrible
Let it happen TBH, you guys missed Bond in the World Cup, only reason you won it (other than playing better than anyother team mayhap) and England? Its England.No The Aussies did not win the emerging series..ALL we have won is the last THREE World Cups are currently Ranked NUMBER ONE in ALL forms of the game..Whitewashed England in the last Ashes series FIVE to NIL...jeez we gotta leave something for the rest of you...We are not greedy
Athlai
Not Terrible
Shane Bond 007: One Wicket Is Not Enough
Fiery
Banned
(Ignorant old fool)
JBMAC
State Captain
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Sydney Barnes was not a seam-bowler, he was a fast wristspinner.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Really, which injury was that?
Days of Grace
International Captain
Well, this thread is about PACE bowlers, so define what a pace bowler is then? To me, it's a bowler that doesn't bowl for the sole purpose of putting spin on the ball.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
"Pace" bowler is a misnomer, it refers to the speed rather than the genre of bowler.
Of which, generally, there are two - seamers and spinners. Seamers seek to use the seam to either get seam off the pitch or swing through the air, and spinners spin the ball to try and turn it off the pitch.
And both sets of bowlers vary in speed. A fast spinner would bowl at, say, 60mph (or more) but the trouble is, we don't know how fast bowlers actually were before 1998. A fast seamer would bowl at, say, 90mph.
Of which, generally, there are two - seamers and spinners. Seamers seek to use the seam to either get seam off the pitch or swing through the air, and spinners spin the ball to try and turn it off the pitch.
And both sets of bowlers vary in speed. A fast spinner would bowl at, say, 60mph (or more) but the trouble is, we don't know how fast bowlers actually were before 1998. A fast seamer would bowl at, say, 90mph.
Flem274*
123/5
*Resisting urge, resisting urge, not quite working*No doubt for me that Hadlee is right up in consideration, BTW, but was probably just a small notch below Marshall.
*Decides to rant about something else to distract himself*
THIS TEAM
Michael Papps
Lou Vincent
Peter Fulton
Stephen Fleming
Scott Styris
Brendan McCullum
Jacob Oram
Daniel Vettori
James Franklin
Shane Bond
Iain O'Brien
Will ANNIHALATE, DESTROY, MURDER, SPIT OUT, WHACK OVER THE HEAD WITH A CATTLE PROD OR WHATEVER......THIS TEAM WHICH IS YOUR FUTURE!!!
Phil 'Chases wide ones from Bond" Jacques
Whatsisname Cosgrove
Ricky "Apeman" Ponting
Michael "Still in nappies" Clarke
Shane "Metro-homo-mummys boy" Watson
Michael *No insult* Hussey
Brad Haddin
Brett "pretty boy" Lee
Stuart McGill
Stuart "Forest Gump" Clark
Shaun "Can't bowl straight" Tait
So go crawl under you little hole in the middle of the outback and DIE!!!
*Breathes deeply*
Richard take my side, you can argue anything. Pleaseeeee
2 random rants in two days, they'll lock me up in the loony bin soon
EDIT: This rant was not directed at Richard, despite the way the quote may suggest otherwise
nightprowler10
Global Moderator
Haha, so a spinner is a type of pace bowler now?
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Well, um, no actually.
As I say - I dislike the term "pace" bowler, really. Pace is not an on-off thing, it's a gradual scale. Whereas seam\spin is (usually) a straightforward thing, either one or the other.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Flem274*
123/5
Nah he'll stick around to get his average and centuries increased to shut up all the Fleming bashers. I can feel a triple hundred on the way....Flem I don't think Flem's going to be around that much longer.
