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Who is the greatest test fast bowler of all time?

Who is the greatest test fast bowler of all time?


  • Total voters
    44

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
Giving the under-rated King Curtly a vote as I always felt he was as good as any one else. The only bowler in the 400 wicket club to average sub 21.
 

Socerer 01

International Vice-Captain
gotta applaud op for finding creative ways to bypass the dead subforum that temporarily halted his activities

and i petition the mods to move these to the comparisons subforum too, having more than 2 options suddenly doesn’t make these threads worthy of the main forum
 

Slifer

International Captain
An average of 18 then 13 a year later against a world class English line-up featuring the likes of Sutcliffe, Walters, Hammond, Leyland, Hendren and Jardine is pretty impressive.

Not sure what went wrong in 1939, injury perhaps?

Really nice bowling action, probably an under-rated fast bowler.

SeriesMatOMRW5w10wBestAvgS/RE/R
3​
72.3​
9​
251​
14​
2​
0​
5/73​
17.93​
31.07​
3.46​
4​
100.3​
23​
239​
19​
1​
0​
5/22​
12.58​
31.74​
2.38​
3​
71.1​
8​
314​
4​
0​
0​
2/34​
78.50​
141.75​
3.32​
10​
244.1​
40​
804​
37​
3​
0​
5/22​
21.73​
43.38​
3.01​
Haha funny...
 

HookShot

U19 Vice-Captain
Joel Garner at No.7 and above Imran, Donald and Holding is an interesting take.

OK, now the tough bit, my top-10. Cue the music and sharpen the knives!
1 Malcolm Marshall
2 Curtly Ambrose
3 Glenn McGrath
4 Dennis Lillee
5 Richard Hadlee
6 Wasim Akram
7 Joel Garner
8 Imran Khan
9 Allan Donald
10 Michael Holding
 

CartyDurham

International Vice-Captain
The one single English player on that list is hundreds of wickets behind Anderson and Broad

the past is not always the best
 

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