satheeshv37
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Who do you think the best bowler at present, I think Its Ishant Sharma(India) is the best bowler at present in all formats of the game..What's your Opinion??
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Who do you think the best bowlers are at present??
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Prince EWS
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Murali.
Migara
International Coach
It's a no brainer. Murali, Steyn, Mendis in order.Who do you think the best bowler at present, I think Its Ishant Sharma(India) is the best bowler at present in all formats of the game..What's your Opinion??
krkode
State Captain
Pretty much. I'd even say Murali has been the best bowler in the last 10 years... maybe except for McGrath.
The major exciting prospects for me are Steyn, Ishant Sharma and Mendis.
Faceless void
Cricket Spectator
Something tells me that you are in for anotherWho do you think the best bowler at present, I think Its Ishant Sharma(India) is the best bowler at present in all formats of the game..What's your Opinion??
Bashing.Anyway keep smiling mate. Jus keep smiling!
PhoenixFire
International Coach
Yeah Murali for mine. I'd possibly say that Mendis might be more potent, but Murali being the better overall bowler.
Precambrian
Banned
Murali no doubt. Mendis is a close second.
Langeveldt
Soutie
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Believe it or not, Stuart Clark isn't that bad either. I wouldn't have him at the very top of the pile, but he's garnered some undue discredit of late.
Murali, as I've said once or twice recently, I wonder about him these days. To write him off in any way would be utter foolishness, but he's not looked any great crack to me whenever I've seen him since the 2006/07 season.
Mendis of course has been sensational so far but has played 1 series.
Flintoff I have high hopes for but he himself recently played his first 3 Tests in the last 2 years.
In answer: there are pretty well no conclusively excellent bowlers at the current time.
Murali, as I've said once or twice recently, I wonder about him these days. To write him off in any way would be utter foolishness, but he's not looked any great crack to me whenever I've seen him since the 2006/07 season.
Mendis of course has been sensational so far but has played 1 series.
Flintoff I have high hopes for but he himself recently played his first 3 Tests in the last 2 years.
In answer: there are pretty well no conclusively excellent bowlers at the current time.
Langeveldt
Soutie
yeah agree with clark.. think he will be a handfull v sa
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Who do you think the best bowler at present, I think Its Ishant Sharma(India) is the best bowler at present in all formats of the game..What's your Opinion??
Please stop using irrelevant laughing smileys
weldone
Hall of Fame Member
Ishant shouldn't be in top 5...In fact, it's debatable if he's yet become India's best pace bowler; I'm not saying he's not, but it can't be said without doubt who among Zaheer and him is better atm...Who do you think the best bowler at present, I think Its Ishant Sharma(India) is the best bowler at present in all formats of the game..What's your Opinion??
For me the top 5 are Murali, Steyn, Mendis, Clark and Sidebottom.
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
AWTA.
With regard to the quicks, there's just no-one that stands out. None of those mentioned (eg Clark, Sidebottom, Steyn, Flintoff, Ishant, Zaheer) stands out as clearly the best fast bowler even in his own team.
krkode
State Captain
Although I think Mendis is one of the best new prospects facing world cricket at the moment, I wonder if we're all being a bit hasty putting him among the world's best atm? Maybe the state of world bowling is just kind of poor over all anyway, but really the main teams Mendis has performed against have been minnows, or a weak Pakistan and (an out of form?) India. Yeah, yeah, India has a great batting lineup, but let's face it - a lot of decidedly average players have had their golden days come against a roller-coaster Indian team which is known for huge form surges... Ricardo Powell, Henry Olonga, Nicky Boje, Clarke with the ball, are a few that come to mind...
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Mendis is really, really, realllllly obviously far more difficult to play than any of those. He has an ass-kicking first-class record and is yet to fail against anyone.
I shall put it another way.
Evidence that Mendis is awesome: Limited.
Evidence that Mendis isn't awesome: Literally none.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Although I obviously don't consider him the best seam-bowler around currently, I do think he's pretty close-ish.
And I certainly think the suggestion that he had a poor series in Sri Lanka is dubious at best, and that he had a poor series against India in 2007 unacceptable. He bowled damn brilliantly that series, got the figures he deserved in the First Test, was ridiculously unlucky in the Second (I've rarely seen someone beat the bat so often), and would have got the figures in the Third but for dropped catches.
He was poor against SA, fo' sho'. And I actually think he was less-than-outstanding against NZ earlier in the summer too. But he was less than fit. Albeit his own weight I'm fairly sure didn't help there.