Bowlers with similar bowling actions

[Migara]

Bruce Reid
Nuwan Zoysa

 

[SJS]

Larwood and Lindwall

Oops. I notice it has been mentioned

 

[The_Bunny]

You meant Thommo and Malinga, right?

Thommo actually releases with his arm pretty straight up, very different to malinga whose arm seems to come over at a 45 degree angle

 

[lockton2skipper]

jeff thomson and craig white

 

[Sir Alex]

Ian Healy and Merv Hughes

 

[SJS]

Thommo actually releases with his arm pretty straight up, very different to malinga whose arm seems to come over at a 45 degree angle

Spot on. Except for both being slingers (like many others before them, the actions are different.

 

[popepouri]

Ian Healy and Merv Hughes

Ian Healy and Malcolm Marshall.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Chris Harris and MS Dhoni.

 

[Sanz]

Md. Zahid and Holding.

 

[slippy]

Glen McGrath and Steve Elworthy

 

[Bouncer]

Pushpakumara looked like a midget version of waqar younis.
too bad i cant find picture of his bowling action
Ravindra Pushpakumara | Sri Lanka Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com

 

[Migara]

Pushpakumara was not that short. He was 6' or there about. On his day could be very quick (as SRT and Azhar found out once), but obviously no where as blistering as Waqar.

 

[Sir Alex]

Chris Harris and MS Dhoni.

Harris and Kohli

 

[Richard]

Always thought Dominic Cork looked like a mini (and less effective) Allan Donald.

Cosmetically the two had a bit in common, but their bowling actions were quite different.

 

[Richard]

jeff thomson and craig white

I've seen no-one remotely like Thomson in my time, but White certainly had more in common with him than most. Good call.

 

[Richard]

Glenn McGrath and obscure Indian paceman Aavishkar Salvi.

Have heard that one many times, but have still never yet procured any footage of Salvi from which to gain my own look at the similarity.

around 0.50s Pushpakumara bowls. You can judge the similarity to Waqar

Had never even heard of his action being Waqar-esque before now (only time I ever even noticed him was on the 1998 SL tour to England), but yeah, there's real similarity there - much more so than Gough.

 

[zaremba]

Always thought Dominic Cork looked like a mini (and less effective) Allan Donald.

I thought this too. Not sure why I did, but it's true.

Also Donald and Klusener, weirdly.

 

[Manee]

Have heard that one many times, but have still never yet procured any footage of Salvi from which to gain my own look at the similarity.

Don't see it much, myself. Salvi is not nearly as powerful at the crease as Mcgrath.

 

[thierry henry]

Puskpakumara and Younis was the one I was going to say.

Perhaps I've made this up (I was an impressionable 10/11 year old during the 1995/6 season) but I seem to recall Pushpakumara openly saying he had copied Younis

 

[Top_Cat]

Stunned at the lack of Morrison/Lillee in this thread. Caddick/Hadlee too.