Fast Bowler Survivor Round of 32 and Preliminary Finals

[Starfighter]

Glenn McGrath
Ray Lindwall
Shaun Pollock
Harold Larwood

Joel Garner
Waqar Younis
Alec Bedser
Neil Adcock

 

[Line and Length]

Group 5

McGrath
Larwood
Lindwall
Pollock

Group 6

Bedser
Garner
Younis
Adcock

I had difficulties with Group 6. Post war, Bedser carried the England new ball attack until the arrival of Trueman and Statham hence I rank him highly.

 

[steve132]

Glenn McGrath
Ray Lindwall
Shaun Pollock
Harold Larwood

Joel Garner
Waqar Younis
Alec Bedser
Neil Adcock

 

[trundler]

CW hivemind on full display

 

[stephen]

CW hivemind on full display

Yeah but it is fun to see some of the differences between voters.

 

[honestbharani]

Glenn McGrath
Shaun Pollock
Harold Larwood
Ray Lindwall

Joel Garner
Waqar Younis
Neil Adcock
Alec Bedser

 

[ataraxia]

Glenn McGrath
Ray Lindwall
Shaun Pollock
Harold Larwood

Joel Garner
Waqar Younis
Alec Bedser
Neil Adcock

Same.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Glenn McGrath
Ray Lindwall
Shaun Pollock
Harold Larwood

Waqar Younis
Joel Garner
Neil Adcock
Alec Bedser

Group 5 to me is harder than it seems (but then again I'm not so impressed by neither Lindwall nor Davidson, due to the team results of Australia in the 1950s)

 

[stephen]

Glenn McGrath
Ray Lindwall
Shaun Pollock
Harold Larwood

Waqar Younis
Joel Garner
Neil Adcock
Alec Bedser

Group 5 to me is harder than it seems (but then again I'm not so impressed by neither Lindwall nor Davidson, due to the team results of Australia in the 1950s)

29 wins, 16 draws, 12 losses is somehow bad?

 

[Starfighter]

(but then again I'm not so impressed by neither Lindwall nor Davidson, due to the team results of Australia in the 1950s)

Don't see the connection here. There are ten other players in the team.

 

[Starfighter]

Speaking of other players, for those who voted for Roberts over Davidson, how do you justify this when they have fairly similar five-fors etc and the gap between their averages is as large as the gap between, say, Roberts and Siddle?

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Group 5

Glenn McGrath
Ray Lindwall
Shaun Pollock
Harold Larwood

Group 6

Joel Garner
Waqar Younis
Alec Bedser
Neil Adcock

 

[BoyBrumby]

Group 5

Harold Larwood
Glenn McGrath
Ray Lindwall
Shaun Pollock

Yeah, look, I'm a Lol fanboy. Took his fc wickets (over 1400 of them) at ~17.5 and anyone's test average is going to suffer bowling to peak Bradman for the majority of it.

Group 6

Waqar Younis
Joel Garner
Alec Bedser
Neil Adcock

Unashamedly a Waqarophile too. Most thrilling bowler it's been my pleasure to see in 35+ years of watching the sport. His late swinging yorker a thing of brutal balletic grace.

His career can be divided into pre and post injury phases too. If the great man hadn't had the ticker to come back when his powers had been reduced to merely very, very good I think he'd be at the zenith.

 

[ankitj]

Group 5
Glenn McGrath
Shaun Pollock
Ray Lindwall
Harold Larwood

Group 6
Waqar Younis
Joel Garner
Neil Adcock
Alec Bedser

Late to this whole thing.

 

[trundler]

Group 5
Glenn McGrath
Shaun Pollock
Ray Lindwall
Harold Larwood

Group 6
Waqar Younis
Joel Garner
Neil Adcock
Alec Bedser

Late to this whole thing.

A wild Ankitj appears

 

[stephen]

Group 5

Glenn McGrath
Ray Lindwall
Shaun Pollock
Harold Larwood

Group 6

Joel Garner
Waqar Younis
Alec Bedser
Neil Adcock

I see no good reason to change the order of these for my vote.

And that wraps up 5 and 6.

 

[stephen]

Round of 32

Please vote on the following groups:

Group 7

Wasim Akram
Dennis Lillee
Maurice Tate
Pat Cummins

Group 8

Fred Trueman
Imran Khan
Frederick Spofforth
John Snow

 

[trundler]

Akram
Lillee
Cummins
Tate

Trueman
Imran
Spofforth
Snow

 

[harsh.ag]

Wasim Akram
Dennis Lillee
Pat Cummins
Maurice Tate

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Imran Khan
Fred Trueman
Frederick Spofforth
John Snow

 

[morgieb]

Group 7

Wasim Akram
Dennis Lillee
Pat Cummins
Maurice Tate

Group 8

Fred Trueman
Imran Khan
Frederick Spofforth
John Snow