10 Greatest fast bowlers of all time

[Pluto]

List your top 10 (Test cricket)

 

[weldone]

Let me do a top 10 pace bowlers for ODIs here:

1. Shaun Pollock
2. Wasim Akram
3. Glenn McGrath
4. Curtly Ambrose
5. Allan Donald
6. Richard Hadlee
7. Joel Garner
8. Brett Lee
9. Chaminda Vaas
10. Waqar Younis

Don't take this list too seriously though. These are intermediate results from a ranking system I am developing. The above list is era- and longevity-adjusted, but I haven't yet adjusted it for opposition and pitches. Hopefully, I shall be able to share the full bowler and batsmen ranking with all of you (separately for ODI and T20) in a month or so.

 

[sledger]

Malcolm Marshall x 9
Matthew Hoggard.

 

[OverratedSanity]

1. Lakshmipathy Balaji
2. Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar, the pride of Mumbai, the terminator at Adelaide
3. Jaidev Unadkat
4. Tinu Yohannan
5. Abey Kuruvilla
6. David Johnson
7. Dodda Ganesh
8. VRV Singh
9. Debashish Mohanty
10.Paras Mhambrey

 

[sledger]

Mohanty too low on that list imo. Good shout putting Balaji at the top though.

 

[shashy]

That I've seen...

1. Glenn McGrath
2. Malcolm Marshall
3. Curtly Ambrose
4. Dale Steyn
5. Wasim Akram
6. Richard Hadlee
7. Allan Donald
8. Waqar Younis
9. Imran Khan
10. Jason Gillespie

 

[OverratedSanity]

Honourable mentions: RP Singh, Atul Sharma, Glenn McGrath, Roger Binny

 

[weldone]

Honourable mentions: RP Singh, Atul Sharma, Glenn McGrath, Roger Binny

 

[Daemon]

1. Lakshmipathy Balaji
2. Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar, the pride of Mumbai, the terminator at Adelaide
3. Jaidev Unadkat
4. Tinu Yohannan
5. Abey Kuruvilla
6. David Johnson
7. Dodda Ganesh
8. VRV Singh
9. Debashish Mohanty
10.Paras Mhambrey

jfc, looking at some of the names there I'm fairly certain we have the worst worst 10 from the top 8 nations.

I'd love to see a similar list for Sri Lanka though.

 

[S.Kennedy]

Fast as in fast (90mph mark) seamers, or fast as in just merely 'seamers'?

 

[harsh.ag]

1. Lakshmipathy Balaji
2. Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar, the pride of Mumbai, the terminator at Adelaide
3. Jaidev Unadkat
4. Tinu Yohannan
5. Abey Kuruvilla
6. David Johnson
7. Dodda Ganesh
8. VRV Singh
9. Debashish Mohanty
10.Paras Mhambrey

Who was this guy??

 

[honestbharani]

Best I have seen, rankings just off the top of my head at the moment...

Malcolm Marshall
Dale Steyn
Curtly Ambrose
Glenn McGrath
Wasim Akram
Imran Khan
Waqar Younis
Allan Donald
Shaun Pollock
Jason Gillespie

 

[Slifer]

With all due respect, Jason Gillespie is not better than Courtney Walsh.

 

[kingkallis]

Malcolm Marshall
Glenn McGrath
Dale Steyn
Richard Hadlee
Dennis Lillee
Curtly Ambrose
Imran Khan
Wasim Akram
Fred Trueman
Waqar Younis

 

[YorksLanka]

THAT over from Donald to Atherton..awesome in terms of aggression

 

[Zinzan]

Marshall
Hadlee
Ambrose
Steyn
Akram
McGrath
Lillee
Donald
Imran
Garner

 

[Red]

Not including early era bowlers like Spofforth, Lohmann or SF Barnes.


Marshall
McGrath
Hadlee
Ambrose
Trueman
Wasim
Imran
Lillee
Steyn
Lindwall

 

[Burgey]

1. Lakshmipathy Balaji
2. Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar, the pride of Mumbai, the terminator at Adelaide
3. Jaidev Unadkat
4. Tinu Yohannan
5. Abey Kuruvilla
6. David Johnson
7. Dodda Ganesh
8. VRV Singh
9. Debashish Mohanty
10.Paras Mhambrey

The wheel is forever.

 

[bagapath]

From 1984 onwards

Tests

Imran
Hadlee
Garner
Marshall
Walsh
Akram
Ambrose
Donald
McGrath
Steyn

ODIs

Hadlee
Garner
Akram
Waqar
McGrath
Donald
S. Pollock
Bracken
Lee
Starc

 

[Red]

In ODIs-

Garner
McGrath
Wasim
Hadlee
Donald
Pollock
Lee
Ambrose
Waqar
Kapil

Starc to come in at some point