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Battle of the Best Bowling Action

wellAlbidarned

wellAlbidarned

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Quick ****s:
Shane Bond
Glenn McGrath
Jason Gillespie
Jeff Thomson
Shaoib Akhtar
Steven Finn
James Pattinson
Tim Southee
Dale Steyn
Reece Topley
Jimmy Baker

Lazy ****s:
Stuart MacGill
Todd Astle
Abdur Rehman
Graeme Swann
 
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Daemon

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Anyone mentioning Shane Warne has to mention David Warner as well ftr.


My favourite action is probably Curtly Ambrose's or Dale Steyn's. Really dig Umesh Yadav's as well.

Not sure why people like Imran's so much, find it meh personally.
 
watson

watson

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Daemon said:
Anyone mentioning Shane Warne has to mention David Warner as well ftr.


My favourite action is probably Curtly Ambrose's or Dale Steyn's. Really dig Umesh Yadav's as well.

Not sure why people like Imran's so much, find it meh personally.
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Yeah, it's that jumpy-thing that Imran does in his delivery stride that puts me off his action.
 
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watson

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Just watched this video of Jeff Thomson in action (incidently, one of the best videos of Thomo I've seen) and I'd have to agree with Richie Benaud's comment in the opening sequence - "But just have a look at him in slow motion, that's one of the most marvelous bowling actions I've ever seen". Also, I wouldn't want to be Clive Lloyd's jaw in the 1976 series - ouch!

Jeff Thomson - YouTube
 
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The Sean

The Sean

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Like a proper fanboy, I'll throw a nomination in for Keith Miller too. He didn't have the so-beautiful-you-want-to-cry smoothness of his new ball partner, but his action was wonderfully high and dynamic. When he could be arsed, anyway.
 
Zinzan

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Close to 100 nominations already. If there's any obvious omissions, we can add them on.

In term of the battles, I'll try to distribute the bowlers evenly aligned with where I think they would seed. Also will start with with 2 from 4 going through to the next round

Here is the list...

Mushtaq Ahmed
Shabbir Ahmed
Sjeed Ajmal
Wasim Akram
Shoaib Akthar
Terry Alderman
Geoff Allott
Curtly Ambrose
James Anderson
Todd Astle
Tapash Baisya
Bishen Bedi
Tino Best
Ian Bishop
Shane Bond
Johan Botha
Ian Botham
Nathan Bracken
Dwayne Bravo
Chris Cairns
Upul Chandana
Dominic Cork
Kapil Dev
Graham Dilley
Mervyn Dillon
Allan Donald
Dilip Doshi
Andrew Ellis
Steven Finn
Damien Fleming
Angus Fraser
Joel Garner
Jason Gillespie
Darren Gough
Richard Hadlee
Wes Hall
Rangana Herath
Rodney Hogg
Michael Holding
Carl Hooper
Ronnie Irani
Marty Kain
Imran Khan
Lance Klusener
Anil Kumble
Jim laker
Gavin Larsen
Harold Larwood
Geoff Lawson
Jermaine Lawson
Brett Lee
Garth le Roux
Dennis Lillee
Ray Lindwall
Stuart Macgill
Lasith Malinga
Salim Malik
Tim May
Craig McDermott
Glen McGrath
Malcolm Marshall
Ajantha Mendis
Keith Miller
Danny Morrison
Mashrafe Mortaza
Muttiah Muralitharan
Saqlain Mushtaq
Dirk Nannes
Andre Nel
Mfuneko Ngam
Monty Panesar
Patrick Patterson
James Pattinson
Ramesh Powar
Erapalli Prasanna
Ray Price
Abdul Qadir
Iqbal Qasim
Vernon Philander
Venketapathy Raju
Abdur Rehman
Kemar Roach
Andy Roberts
Mohammad Sami
Ryan Sidebottom
John Snow
Aamir Sohail
Tim Southee
Mitchell Starc
Heath Streak
Dale Steyn
Murphy Sua
Graeme Swann
Jerome Taylor
Jeff Thomson
Fred Trueman
Inzamam ul Haq
Derek Underwood
Charminda Vaas
Corri van Zyl
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
Courtney Walsh
Shane Warne
David Warner
Pramodya Wickremesinghe
Kane Williamson
Bob Willis
Umesh Yadav
Waqar Younis
Mohammad Zahid
Nuwan Zoysa
 
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Zinzan

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^ Actually, forget it mate. It's fine if people want to rank only 1,2 or 3 bowlers, I can adjust points accordingly.
 
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