'Ball of the Century'

[Arachnodouche]

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Here is the man. Cricinfo lists his batting average as 26 - so if Smiley is right then his form must have really fallen away at the end.

Warne in the video is really talking up Basit like he is a real quality bat. I note that he didn't make it anywhere in the A-Z of CWs world XIs so maybe this was an oversight that should be rectified.

I remember watching his breakthrough series in WI where virtually everybody thought him to be the second coming of Miandad. Had some streetsmarts about him, too bad he didn't go anywhere.

There was another bowler from that tour if I remember correctly..Aamer Nazir? Used to bowl big banana inswingers, wonder where he went.

 

[Burgey]

Terribly overrated ball to a terribly overrated player of spin. Warne cleaned up many better batsmen with absolute rippers. Best was against Basit Ali. Murali sent one to Sandagopan Ramesh, the absolute mirror image of Gatting ball, only thing was Ramesh was class above Gatting when it came to playing spin.

 

[Hurricane]

Take a guy like Basit Ali. I reckon a better player would have kept that ball out.

 

[Maximas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov0uiBBGg7U

Sometimes even good players have trouble outside the leg stump.

 

[smash84]

I remember watching his breakthrough series in WI where virtually everybody thought him to be the second coming of Miandad. Had some streetsmarts about him, too bad he didn't go anywhere.

There was another bowler from that tour if I remember correctly..Aamer Nazir? Used to bowl big banana inswingers, wonder where he went.

Yeah Basit ALi was being touted at that time as a potential to replace Miandad. Did have trouble with team mates at the time of match fixing and all that. His form also dropped significantly.

Yeah thinking of Basit Ali always brings memories of Aamir Nazir for some reason. He got Lara out a fair few times in the days when Lara was playing god like. He withered away like a lot of the other 90s bowlers who bowled around the 2Ws.

 

[Furball]

You keep proving his point though.

Bloke averaged 26 in Test cricket, Migara all is forgiven, **** knows how Warne managed to outwit such a fearsome opponent.

 

[the big bambino]

Terribly overrated ball to a terribly overrated player of spin. Warne cleaned up many better batsmen with absolute rippers. Best was against Basit Ali. Murali sent one to Sandagopan Ramesh, the absolute mirror image of Gatting ball, only thing was Ramesh was class above Gatting when it came to playing spin.

Really? Really! It swerved at pace to pitch on or just outside leg, squared up Gatt and ripped across him to KO his off stump. I've not seen a better ball bowled by a spinner and neither have you.

 

[uvelocity]

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Here is the man. Cricinfo lists his batting average as 26 - so if Smiley is right then his form must have really fallen away at the end.

Warne in the video is really talking up Basit like he is a real quality bat. I note that he didn't make it anywhere in the A-Z of CWs world XIs so maybe this was an oversight that should be rectified.

thanks for the picture of basit ali hcane. along the same lines i'm wondering who here has drafted basit ali in one of their fantasy teams?

 

[Daemon]

 

[Top_Cat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov0uiBBGg7U

Sometimes even good players have trouble outside the leg stump.

Yeah but that was after so long a period of bowling two feet outside leg-stump from Nagamootoo, Waugh probably kicked the ball onto the stumps deliberately out of sheer boredom (after considering several methods of suicide). All that ball does is show how good a football player Waugh was.

 

[Dan]

Yeah but that was after so long a period of bowling two feet outside leg-stump from Nagamootoo, Waugh probably kicked the ball onto the stumps deliberately out of sheer boredom (after considering several methods of suicide). All that ball does is show how good a football player Waugh was.

Yeah, getting out that way (as compared to skying one) looks more impressive for the bowler too, hence Nagamootoo continues to get selected and continues to be mostly unthreatening

 

[Top_Cat]

All I remember about Nagamootoo is everyone commenting about how well he batted in that Test.

 

[Daemon]

Googling Nagamootoo made me realis Kallicharan and Kanhai are sort of related

 

[kingkallis]

Add that Shrek McCague as well...

 

[kingkallis]

Yeah thinking of Basit Ali always brings memories of Aamir Nazir for some reason. He got Lara out a fair few times in the days when Lara was playing god like. He withered away like a lot of the other 90s bowlers who bowled around the 2Ws.

Aamir Nazir had late out-swinging yorkers as a main weapon ( in-swinging in case of Lara ) and Lara used to fail to those full pitched deliveries which came in sharply.

 

[karan316]

I would rate this one as highly as the Warne Gatting delivery....

Muralitharan's Ball Of The Millenium - YouTube

 

[Burgey]

Nah, don't rate it.

 

[the big bambino]

i would rate this one as highly as the warne gatting delivery....

muralitharan's ball of the millenium - youtube

baaaallll!

 

[Top_Cat]

No kidding, the narionalism on stuff like this is ****ing sickening. I mean, if we're talking about quality of the delivery alone, there are actually more than two contenders, believe or or not. I doubt, for example, you'd see a better wrong'un than this one but hey, **** it, my guy is better because he comes from the same patch of dirt I did. Reppin.

 

[smash84]

I would rate this one as highly as the Warne Gatting delivery....

Muralitharan's Ball Of The Millenium - YouTube

If only enough people would give a **** about Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh then maybe Murali would be rated as the best bowler ever