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Curtly Ambrose vs Jimmy Anderson
- Thread starter slippy888
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I got no argument with that. I don't think anyone has suggested that he is a top tier bowler up there with the likes of Hadlee, Marshall, McGrath (or Curtly) etc.
OverratedSanity
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He's pretty comprehensively better than Terry Alderman though. Alderman basically only had two good years in his entire career.
kingkallis
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Jeeez, is this even a contest???
TheJediBrah
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Dunno about that. Hard to say either way. How much did Alderman suffer by being Australian and bowling largely in conditions not suited to his bowling? Maybe if he played for 7 Home tests for England every year he could have ended up with 600-700 wkts.
You just can't know.
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He suffered more by having his shoulder dislocated while trying to tackle a soap dodging field invader at the WACA in 82-83. Lost a lot of zip after that. By 85 he was Rebel touring to SA so I've basically got no sympathy for him in terms of his record being incomplete. Certainly a fine swing bowler though. The number he did on England in 89 in particular was as comprehensive as you'd ever see. Poor old Gooch spent half the summer on the psyhrink's couch trying to deal with it. At least in 81 he had Lillee taking nearly as many wickets, but in 89 he was totally dominant.
The Sean
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Yes. It's just not a close one.
Lillian Thomson
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Why were slippy, blocky and listentome banned? Never heard of any of them.
weldone
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weldone
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Pollock too, and if Waqar is considered an out-and-out swing bowler then he too
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Pollock is more seam than swing, waqar is the furthest thing from a swing bowler
Shri
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FC average is better and he has more wickets. Clouderson has only two things going for him: longevity and swing.
Shri
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Don't remember slippy. Must have been a boring troll. blocky was a kiwi troll who riled kiwis up hilariously and listentome was your standard edgy troll who was easy to manipulate.
AndyZaltzHair
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Slippy used to open threads every 2 mins. He even had threads for athlai's t-rex and fairweather windies
Starfighter
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Wait, a person who used movement through the air to great effect is the furthest thing from a swing bowler? Really?
weldone
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At the later part of his career, Pollock generated wild swing.
Just because Waqar bowled at high pace, it doesn't mean he was the furthest thing from a swing bowler. Sure he had (all) other weapons - but he had excellent in-and-out swing and reverse swing. Those toe-crushing inswinging yorkers were a thing of beauty.
weldone
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Haha that was a weird comment from DriveClub.