Raw Pace but Sprays It All Over

[Line and Length]

Steve Harmison - a fine bowler on his day, but prone to bowling wild/wide deliveries.

On the other side of the coin, here are some fine Test bowlers who never bowled a wide in their Test career.

Hadlee
Sobers
Botham
Grimmett
Gibbs
Underwood
Willis
Imran Khan
Trueman
Kapil Dev
Holding
Garner

Remarkably the last 2 never bowled a no ball.

 

[The Sean]

Wayne Holdsworth

 

[mr_mister]

I guess Binga too

 

[mr_mister]

Oh, and Goughie in the first overs of ashes tests

 

[morgieb]

Shane George, Denis Hickey

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Ncanana
@StephenZA

 

[Starfighter]

On the other side of the coin, here are some fine Test bowlers who never bowled a wide in their Test career.

Hadlee
Sobers
Botham
Grimmett
Gibbs
Underwood
Willis
Imran Khan
Trueman
Kapil Dev
Holding
Garner

Remarkably the last 2 never bowled a no ball.

Almost all of those are false due to the fact scorecards did not consistently attribute extras until very recently. Grimmett and Underwood are the only ones who actually did so. Charles Davis has a run down in the September 7 entry: http://www.sportstats.com.au/BlogArchive2017.htm (including noting the incompleteness of the data).

 

[Line and Length]

Almost all of those are false due to the fact scorecards did not consistently attribute extras until very recently. Grimmett and Underwood are the only ones who actually did so. Charles Davis has a run down in the September 7 entry: http://www.sportstats.com.au/BlogArchive2017.htm (including noting the incompleteness of the data).

Fair call. Yes, I remember when wides were simply 'extras' and weren't recorded against bowlers.

 

[HookShot]

Almost all of those are false due to the fact scorecards did not consistently attribute extras until very recently. Grimmett and Underwood are the only ones who actually did so. Charles Davis has a run down in the September 7 entry: http://www.sportstats.com.au/BlogArchive2017.htm (including noting the incompleteness of the data).

‘Grimmett and Underwood are the only ones who actually did so’

Underwood is not surprising, but no wides for a classical leg-spinner is pretty amazing.

 

[HookShot]

Devon Malcolm looked like an ATG fast bowler when he got it together, but an average of 37 underscores how inaccurate/erratic he was overall.

 

[Chubb]

Adrian van Troost had this reputation iirc.

 

[JBMAC]

Jeff Thomson....without a doubt Played with and against the man and even he admitted at more times than not "He was a bit wayward".....but at his sheer pace you could doubt his ability to take wickets

 

[Starfighter]

‘Grimmett and Underwood are the only ones who actually did so’

Underwood is not surprising, but no wides for a classical leg-spinner is pretty amazing.

Grimmett was known for being exceptionally accurate for a leg spinner, that he was not a tremendously big spinner of the ball would be part. As mentioned in the article an analysis of his career found only five wides and no no-balls.

 

[Kirkut]

RP Singh and Sreesanth during 2007-09 period. Both got tonked in ODIs at home for 6+ rpo but bowled with serious heat. RP Singh outpacing Dale Steyn in 2008 IPL says something.

 

[Daemon]

Fiery allegedly bowled 140+. When asked to prove it in person by @HeathDavisSpeed he of course chickened out but who knows? The man had two degrees after all.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Fiery allegedly bowled 140+. When asked to prove it in person by @HeathDavisSpeed he of course chickened out but who knows? The man had two degrees after all.

Haha. Can you link me to that convo. Was top notch BS by Fiery that.

 

[honestbharani]

The man had two degrees after all.

As long as it was not fifteen.

 

[Line and Length]

I would never claim to have bowled at 140kph. At my peak I was probably Bob Massie's pace (I played with him at club level). When in my mid 40s I was probably regarded as accurate dibbly dobbly.

 

[Aritro]

Ata-ur-Rehman was pretty quick but otherwise rubbish from memory?

 

[Immenso]

Ata-ur-Rehman was pretty quick but otherwise rubbish from memory?

He wasn't quick.
3rd seamer stuff. Didnt spray it either.

Saw a fair bit of him on tours to nz in early 90s. Way slower than the 2 Ws. Also slower than Aaqib Javed who he effectively replaced or completed for a position with.