The Next Great Bowler

[SillyCowCorner1]

From the unknown, with crafts and skills to fool the best of batsmen. On off days, he should hone his skills against a batting machine.
Every six conceded(mi****s included)...do ten laps
Every four conceded...do 7 laps.

Every wicket taken: a reward of 0.25 grams of dark chocolate.
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Okay, I'm guessing those two Pakistan bowlers...Naseem&Shaheen, Lungi, Pat Cummins


Looking to the distant future:
From the under-19 World cup: Seales and definitely Bishnoi

 

[Athlai]

Cooper

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Add more of these hardworking cricketers please.

We need more of them in world cricket.

 

[stephen]

Next? Bumrah, Cummins and Rabada are still 26, 26 and 24. That's easily another 7-10 years of peak performances, injuries pending.

 

[Burgey]

For all the **** they copped at the time, CA is properly reaping the rewards of basically cotton-wooling Cummins for about 5-6 years. I think he went about three years without even a FC game there for a time. Had various issues along the way, obviously, but the long term management of him has paid huge dividends.

 

[jimmy101]

Yeah Cummins is certainly the #1 fast bowler in the world right now for mine. Though a fully fit Bumrah might have something to say about that.

 

[Kirkut]

Bumrah has the potential to be among top 5 ATG pace bowlers provided he remains injury free and plays for 10 years.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Chemar Holder

 

[jimmy101]

Guess we can cross Lloyd Pope off the list.

 

[BSM]

If he is managed properly and doesn't continue to suffer with injuries I think Archer is going to be up there in a a couple years time

 

[Burgey]

Bumrah has the potential to be among top 5 ATG pace bowlers provided he remains injury free and plays for 10 years.

That's pretty rare air. Certainly a fine bowler though

 

[TheJediBrah]

Cummins and Bumrah aren't particularly bold choices. They're pretty gun already. Cummins is arguably already a "great" bowler.

I'm going to go out on a limb a bit and guess Wes Agar

 

[stephen]

Cummins 29 wickets in the last Ashes series was amazing. Especially the two clean bowled dismissals of Root. Pure fast bowling porn right there.

 

[JBMAC]

Archer and Wagner

 

[Logan]

Bumrah

Not sure if he can be a Top 5 bowler of all time though

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Bumrah

Not sure if he can be a Top 5 bowler of all time though

Absolute gun bowler, but that action is an injury prone career waiting to happen.

 

[MrPrez]

Bold prediction - Rabada will end his career known as being the best of the Rabada/Cummins/Bumrah trio. Bumrah to be the worst. All three to be fantastic for years to come, though.

As far as lesser-knowns go, Marco Jansen.

 

[Neptune]

This Bumrah fella is seriously overrated. Rabada wasn’t great against us in the test series either. Cummins is brilliant.

 

[MrPrez]

This Bumrah fella is seriously overrated. Rabada wasn’t great against us in the test series either. Cummins is brilliant.

Rabada is in the midst of his worst run of form, which has coincided with that of the SA team as a whole.

Over the past 12 months, he averages 31.93.

In his entire career, he averages 22.95 with nearly 200 wickets. And he's still only 24 years old.

Judging him on the England and India series would not give you a good indication of how good he is.

Both him and Cummins will end their careers in the same grouping as your "golden generation" of the 90s/00s (Waqar, Wasim, Donald, Pollock, McGrath, Ambrose, etc). The true speculation is where among these guys they'll feature.

Bumrah will probably end slightly below this group. Still the greatest Indian pacer of all time, and still a remarkable bowler. But his early stats are bloated and will come back to earth. He'll probably end up averaging 26/27 with the ball in Tests if his average gets the time to even out. Which is fantastic, but not in the same class.

 

[Dendarii]

As far as lesser-knowns go, Marco Jansen.

Gerald Coetzee another potential one.