Best Deliveries

[Agent Nationaux]

I think we have had a similar thread before but I thought it would be interesting to have this conversation again.

So name the bowlers who were the best at a particular delivery.

Outswinger - Anderson/Steyn
Inswinger - Waqar
Toe Crusher - Waqar/Akhtar/Malinga
Bouncer - Big Bird
Cutter - McGrath/Asif
Doosra - Saqlain
Leg Break - Warne

 

[Days of Grace]

Short and wide - Harmison

 

[benchmark00]

Dr Moore delivered a beauty back in 1987.

 

[benchmark00]

I don't get the leg break choice. Why do you think Warne's leg break was better than anyone elses?

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Loved the action and the revs.

 

[Red]

Good conversation topic. I'd change a few though....


Outswinger - Alderman, Lillee, Holding, Imran
Inswinger - Waqar, Marshall, Wasim
Toe Crusher/yorker - Waqar, Garner, Thomson
Bouncer - Wasim, Roberts, McGrath
Cutter - McGrath, Hadlee
Doosra -
Leg Break (and most variations of) - Warne (for control and accuracy)

 

[benchmark00]

Personal preference then I guess. Warne wasn't the biggest turner of his leg spinner by any stretch of the imagination.

Anyways:

Stuart MacGill Wrongun - YouTube

2004 Stuart Macgill wrongun vs Kaneria @SCG - YouTube

 

[Pup Clarke]

Reverse - Wasim
Slower Bouncer - Rana Naved, Lee, Roberts

 

[Athlai]

Chris Cairns had the best slower bouncer. The Malinga toe crusher is amazing, comes from a trajectory that just knocks people off their feet constantly.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Leg Cutter- Dennis Lillee

Damn tough to master and bowl accurate too

 

[doesitmatter]

I would include

1) Wasim's ability to curve the ball(in the air) into the batsman and after pitching(or in the air) take the ball away..Dravid and Croft can vouch for it..What a thing of beauty..
2) Qadir's googly was a beauty as well..anything Qadir was beautiful to watch
3) Cutter or Legcutter -- Dennis Lillee..
4) Outswinger -- Kapil Dev
5) Slower ball -- Steve Waugh
6) Bouncer -- Larwood
7) flipper -- Warne until his finger/shoulder operation
8) off spinner - Murali..man can turn a ball on glass

 

[Daemon]

Quicker delivery (Spinners): Kumble

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Garner a lock-in for best yorker tbh.

 

[thierry henry]

In-swinger- Bond

 

[MrPrez]

What happened to that Bennett chap from NZ? Seemed to have a mean inswinger.

 

[ankitj]

Short and wide - Harmison

Indian bowlers disagree.

 

[MrPrez]

Indian bowlers disagree.

As does MJ.

 

[MrPrez]

Reckon Philander makes it onto my list for seam movement. Of course, I can only remember matches from the 2000s on...

 

[Hurricane]

steve waugh had the best leg cutter in that it was his stock ball and he could bowl it on a flat track.

 

[fredfertang]

Inswing and outswing - Bob Massie - Lords 1972