Best Death Over Bowlers?

[marc71178]

Yes, but the whole point being that McGrath goes for more.

More than who?

 

[Kasper]

McGrath does not bowl good length balls, he bowls yorkers. What have you been watching buddy? He's the best finisher of an innings to ever pick up a cricket ball.

 

[Choora]

McGrath does not bowl good length balls, he bowls yorkers. What have you been watching buddy? He's the best finisher of an innings to ever pick up a cricket ball.

Waseem Akram was clearly better,

 

[Kasper]

No way, McGrath best bowler to ever live, both forms of the game.

 

[psxpro]

Mgrath.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

hmmmm, well thats something im very unfamiliar with

He was considered a death bowling specialist. He actually was more successful a lot of the time with the ball than the bat in ODI cricket. In his peak as a bowler he averaged in the 27-28-29 range with the ball, and had an eco rate around 4.3-4.4 despite bowling largely in the dying overs. With a mid 30s average with the bat at the time (higher than his average at the end of his career) he was a useful all-rounder, and was renowned for getting the ball in the right area in the dying overs. That reputation about died when he condeded 17 in an over in the first ODI at Bellrieve to let Pakistan score an unlikely tie.

Not in the Wasim/McGrath/Lee/Garner/Pollock death bowling group in my view, but certainly good.

 

[Link]

Not in the Wasim/McGrath/Lee/Garner/Pollock death bowling group in my view, but certainly good.

thats more on the side of what i was refering to

 

[Tom Halsey]

He mostly bowls good-length balls

Can’t have seen much of him then.

 

[sledger]

No way, McGrath best bowler to ever live, both forms of the game.

i strongly refute that claim, as will many others here i am sure

 

[Unattainableguy]

More than who?

More than other fast bowlers. Now that's very simple!

 

[Unattainableguy]

McGrath does not bowl good length balls, he bowls yorkers. What have you been watching buddy? He's the best finisher of an innings to ever pick up a cricket ball.

Can’t have seen much of him then.

I can still recall the last over( of 3rd ODI when Pakistan came in Australia in 2002) where Wasim Akram smashed him for around 25 runs to set up a target of about 250 odd, and that really turned the tables on Australia. And McGrath didn't even attempt a single yorker!

 

[Tom Halsey]

That’s a one off then, he’s a very good yorker bowler.

 

[GladiatrsInBlue]

No way, McGrath best bowler to ever live, both forms of the game.

LOl! Akram was a far superior bowler in ODI.

Also i don't think McGrath was the best ever bowler in tests either.

 

[marc71178]

More than other fast bowlers. Now that's very simple!

I meant names...

 

[Richard]

Not in the Wasim/McGrath/Lee/Garner/Pollock death bowling group in my view, but certainly good.

You must be referring to Pollock of 4 or 5 years ago, because he hasn't been a good death-bowler for quite some time.

 

[Richard]

Gough is still quality at the death as well.

No, he's not, he's nowhere near as good as he used to be and when he bowls alongside Flintoff that's plain to see.
Of course, in South Africa he was bowling alongside Hoggard, Harmison, Kabir Ali and the like, and they can make anyone who's merely decent look like a World-beater.

 

[Richard]

Pollock has fallen off of late but he used to be pretty good.

Pollock used to be pretty good until about 1999. WC99 was the last time he was reliable at the death.
Ever since the Standard Bank Series in 1999\2000 he's always had 6 or 7 games where he gets some tap for every game he gets it right.

 

[Richard]

I think pretty much any bowler will go for runs at the end if the opposition has wickets in hand

Not at all, wickets in hand don't make unhittable balls into hittable ones.

 

[Richard]

Brett Lee, Freddy Flintoff and Andrew Hall i would rate as probally the best out of the lot

Hall sure is overrated because of that one over!

 

[Craig]

No way, McGrath best bowler to ever live, both forms of the game.

Come on, great bowler yes, but greatest ever? That is very hard to say (when trying to compare era's, quality of support bowling attack, quality of team etc.).