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DoG's Top 100 Test Bowlers Countdown Thread 100-1

Borges

International Regular
Does Steyn have the highest quality points so far?
I think so (at least highest among the bowlers ranked 20 or higher).
This is what the spread looks like:

Dale Steyn 822
Malcolm Marshall 815


Bill O'Reilly 795
Kagiso Rabada 794
Imran Khan 787
Allan Donald 784
Glenn McGrath 783


Clarrie Grimmett 772
Dennis Lillee 771
Waqar Younis 770


Fred Trueman 759
Curtly Ambrose 756
Shane Warne 751
Ravichandran Ashwin 749


Wasim Akram 710
James Anderson 684
Anil Kumble 661
 

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
I think so (at least highest among the bowlers ranked 20 or higher).
That's highest then because 822 quality points and 0 career points would put a player at #23. Neither #21 nor #22 had higher quality points.

Barnes will certainly have higher quality points to be ranked this high. Remains to be seen if Hadlee or Murali can top it.
 
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StephenZA

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It has done my heart good to see Steyn above both McGrath and Warne.... it is his phenomenal SR that does it for me.
 

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I really can't believe that Barnes, with the adjustments for era and opposition, is going to come this high.
 

trundler

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I really can't believe that Barnes, with the adjustments for era and opposition, is going to come this high.
Maybe that is some food for thought. The 1900s weren't as bad as the 1890s were for for batting. Pitches vastly improved at the turn of the previous century. Barnes faced a very high quality of Australian batsmanship too. Whilst he won a lottery with matting wickets in SA, the quality of batsmanship was better than what Lohmann faced albeit still minnow-ish. Maybe he really was Bradmanesque.

As per contemporary account he was faster than Bedser and by extension Fazal. He was notably different from bowlers like Noble, Turner and Spofforth. Definitely the first master of swing. Perhaps the novelty of swing bowling in those days means he'd be less effective today. There is of course the conditions question also.
 

Coronis

International Coach
Barnes' career points won't be that bad. I mean, his career's been almost as long as Steyns, and he played tests in 10 of those 14 years.
 

flibbertyjibber

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So the big question is will the bloke who was called for chucking in Australia be number 1?

For the lols on here I hope he is.
 

Tec15

First Class Debutant
Yeah, you're not very good with the facts thing, I suggest you leave it to people who actually watch cricket rather than just bring up little anecdotes without context.
:laugh: The irony is not lost on me. Trust me, unlike most Australian posters in this site, I have actually seen cricket not broadcast by Channel 9, instead of relying on second hand descriptions of what it's like and fronting.:whistling
 

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
:laugh: The irony is not lost on me. Trust me, unlike most Australian posters in this site, I have actually seen cricket not broadcast by Channel 9, instead of relying on second hand descriptions of what it's like and fronting.:whistling
You never give indications to that effect though. Maybe it's time to make an attempt.
 

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