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Current Test Fast Bowling Stocks-- Your Country

wellAlbidarned

International Coach
How come the vast majority of Pakistan quicks bowl with their left hand? Particularly given the world is predominantly right-handed....
I'd take a guess that it's due to Wasim's legacy. A whole generation grew up idolising him so tended more towards bowling left handed than in other places.
 

steelo green

Cricket Spectator
Junaid and Rahat must be nice to have in the armory surely? Imran also looks pretty decent.
The problem that plagues these players is they are all lacking in some aspect. Junaid lacks pace, but IMO is our best bowler because of his smarts. He reads batsmen well and picks the spots to get them out. Having a few bad matches and is injured so he's going through a bit of a lull. The problem potentially could be that due to lack of pace, batsmen can eventually figure him out, but so far he has been very good.

Rahat has swing and a bit of pace but he is very inconsistent and is wayward. Imran is the same.

Tanvir has swing but no pace, Riaz has pace, no swing, and no control.

All have bits and pieces of good bowlers, none have an all-encompassing repertoires, and the lengths they pick are very bad at times.

Irfan and Junaid are probably the best but compared to the better teams they are simply above average.
 

Agent Nationaux

International Coach
Rahat is the one to watch out for in the future. He really impressed me with his swing and seam.

Wahab will be amazing if he learns to control and swing the ball.

Junaid
Wahab
Rahat

Not a bad bowling line up.

Then there is also Sadaf, Amir, Talha, Imran.
 

Beamer

International Vice-Captain
Cummins' stocck must have fallen a bit. You guys were hoping he would be a starter this time last year iirc.
He was bang in form then and had a superb A tour of India. This season he has lost his radar a bit and has been both expensive and wicketless.

Peters has been in devestating form and Beaton has improved as much as Cummins has regressed. I really like him and hope he gets it back but he is defiinitely dropping down the pecking order as it stands.
 

steelo green

Cricket Spectator
Rahat is the one to watch out for in the future. He really impressed me with his swing and seam.

Wahab will be amazing if he learns to control and swing the ball.

Junaid
Wahab
Rahat

Not a bad bowling line up.

Then there is also Sadaf, Amir, Talha, Imran.
I am surprised you are more excited about our bowling than myself. I don't see anything long term from any of these players except Mir Hamza and Ehsan Adil (slipped my mind, good call).

Riaz is now in his prime and will never figure it out, Rahat is very wayward despite all the tools he has.

It simply feels as though this generation of bowlers minus Junaid does not use their brain and just think they can get away with sheer talent and not hard work. Many of them I see no movement and they stay stagnant.

By comparison to the worlds best, we are mediocre at best and given our batting woes, we are destined for mediocrity.
 

Blocky

Banned
I'd say decent, but dependent on the front line.

Southee
Boult
Wagner
Henry
Bracewell
Wheeler

I think as a stock of five bowlers - you've got three who in the last two years have stood out as international class and have been setting up many of NZ's recent victories - the problem is if you lose Southee then you're left with Boult who is inconsistent due to his weapon being swing and Wagner who at the moment isn't looking as sharp through the crease as he was last ear.

Henry looks like a very good prospect, seam, movement, bounce and good pace. Bracewell is there or there abouts - then you've got Wheeler and Milne who have the pace, but I think ultimately Milne will be usurped by Wheeler. The most promising thing about the NZ side is that you could feasibly see Wagner, Southee and Boult form our combination until 2018 at least - Wagner being the oldest would only be 32 and realistically so far, this generation of our faster bowlers don't seem to have the injury concerns of the previous generation. If Henry and Wheeler are able to place pressure on Boult and Wagner for positions then we look pretty good for the next 5 years.
 

Agent Nationaux

International Coach
Mir Hamza's inswinger is crazy. He swings it miles but can also bowl the outswinger. This guy is special.

Has an action exactly like Dale Steyn.

 

FBU

International Debutant
1 Anderson
2 Broad
3 Finn
4 Woakes
5 Jordan
6 Plunkett
7 Stokes
8 Rankin
9 Brooks
10 Wood
11 C Overton
12 Footitt
13 Dunn
14 Gurney

Think they have moved on from Tremlett, Bresnan and Onions
 

micz

Cricket Spectator
1. Mitchell Johnson
2. Ryan Harris
3. Peter Siddle
4. Josh Hazelwood
5. Pat Cummings
6. James Pattinson
7. Jackson Bird
8. Mitchell Starc
9. Sean Abbott
10. Nathan Coulter-Nile
 

popepouri

State Vice-Captain
1. Dale Steyn
2. Vernon Philander
3. Morne Morkel
4. Kyle Abbott
5. Kagiso Rabada
6. Hardus Viljoen
7. Wayne Parnell
8. Marchant De Lange
9. Lonwabo Tsotsobe
10. Rory Kleinveldt
 

Daemon

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Assuming Dhoni isn't captaining them

Yadav
Bhuvi
Ishant
Pankaj
Shami
Aaron
Pandey

Haven't really watched enough of the rest to comment
 

SeamUp

International Coach
For test cricket

1. Dale Steyn
2. Vernon Philander
3. Morne Morkel
4. Kyle Abbott
5. Kagiso Rabada (on potential)
6. Marchant de Lange
7. Wayne Parnell
8. Beuran Hendricks
9. Chris Morris
10. Hardus Viljoen

Remainder 23+ worth noting : Kleinveldt, McLaren, Tsotsobe, Shezi, Paterson, Alexander, Friend, du Preez,
up-and-comers 22 & under : Dupavillon, Kirsten, Savage, Phehlukwayo, Engelbrecht, Dry, Olivier, Williams, Galiem
 
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GirtBySea

U19 12th Man
Plenty of good quickies in Australia and I'm loving that. 10 wickets in limited overs and 20 in Tests go a long way to winning games by restricting overs and runs. These days, the best way to dry up runs and partnerships is to take wickets. It's a tough one atm, I am going with 2014 and those who are performing at domestic level as well, not reputation or past performances.

1. Mitchell Johnson
2. Ryan Harris
3. Mitchell Starc
4. James Faulkner
5. Pat Cummins
6. Josh Hazlewood
7. Jackson Bird
8. Jason Behrendorff
9. Nathan Coulter-Nile
10. Peter Siddle
 

Howsie

Cricketer Of The Year
Plenty of good quickies in Australia and I'm loving that. 10 wickets in limited overs and 20 in Tests go a long way to winning games by restricting overs and runs. These days, the best way to dry up runs and partnerships is to take wickets. It's a tough one atm, I am going with 2014 and those who are performing at domestic level as well, not reputation or past performances.

1. Mitchell Johnson
2. Ryan Harris
3. Mitchell Starc
4. James Faulkner
5. Pat Cummins
6. Josh Hazlewood
7. Jackson Bird
8. Jason Behrendorff
9. Nathan Coulter-Nile
10. Peter Siddle
If Mitchell Starc and James Faulkner are numbers three and four then sadly that isn't the case.
 

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