A Bowling Lineup For Damage Control

[Fuller Pilch]

Ewen Chatfield would be very useful

 

[honestbharani]

Mohd Asif to keep things tight.

Depends on how tight things are with him, financially.

 

[karan_fromthestands]

Ian Harvey is a very creative pick. He was terrible. One of Australia's worst ODI players as an option to stop runs in a test!?

No no, just to break the rhythm of the batsmen with his range of variations.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Fanie De Villiers
Ewen Chatfield
Goddard
Sobers
Vettori

 

[karan_fromthestands]

Fanie De Villiers
Ewen Chatfield
Goddard
Sobers
Vettori

The deviation on his cutters was just crazy. Need more footage of him.

 

[karan_fromthestands]

His batting never come off in ODIs like the selectors hoped and he wasn't the hero @Dan claims, but he was a decent ODI bowler. Definitely not one of Australia's worst ever players - he wouldn't even be in the bottom half.

That's what I thought, Harvey's bowling kept him in the team, I loved to see the batsmen just totally misreading his variations and subtle pace adjustments. And he also had a very good FC record as a bowler.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Ewen Chatfield would be very useful

This wasn't a joke. He was incredibly accurate and economical

 

[tony p]

An English attack, not a very exciting one, but plenty of damage control,
Tom Cartwright,
Derek Shackleton,
Les Jackson,
Eric Hollies,

None of these barely went for 2 runs per over in their very long careers. they would get quite a few LBW's.

 

[subshakerz]

Would Lance Gibbs be considered ATG level?

 

[subshakerz]

One option I was considering would be Fazal Mahmood, who was Pakistan's first great bowler known for his accuracy and ability to cut the ball even on matting wickets.

 

[a massive zebra]

Would Lance Gibbs be considered ATG level?

Lance Gibbs very much had a career of two halves. In his first 41 tests he took 183 wickets @ 24.39 with 13 fivefors and 2 tenfors. In his last 38 tests he took 126 wickets @ 35.91 with a strike rate of 106.3, no tenfors and just a handful of fivefors.

So I guess you could call him world class in the first half of his career, but he played on long after he lost his venom and his overall career was probably a little short of ATG.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Lance Gibbs very much had a career of two halves. In his first 41 tests he took 183 wickets @ 24.39 with 13 fivefors and 2 tenfors. In his last 38 tests he took 126 wickets @ 35.91 with a strike rate of 106.3, no tenfors and just a handful of fivefors.

So I guess you could call him world class in the first half of his career, but he played on long after he lost his venom and his overall career was probably a little short of ATG.

Or maybe batsmen got better against off-spin?

 

[Flem274*]

McGrath - Marshall - Hadlee - Warne - Sobers

Problem contained because the other team are out.

 

[Red]

Craig McDermott
Stuart Clark
Andy Bichel
Stuart MacGill
Andrew McDonald

not ATGs but reliable guys who could do a job

 

[Nikhil99.94]

For a ATGs attack Mcgrath,S.f Barnes ,larwood/Akram,O’Reilly,Sobers/kallis.
For a non-ATGs attack
Anderson,McDermott,Lee,Macgill,Dev

 

[trundler]

**** no to Anderson and McGill on a road.

 

[Nikhil99.94]

(**** no to Anderson )and McGill on a road.

Anderson has been good in some years in road as well.Anderson’s accuracy has been on another level compared to before in last some years.He is without a doubt,the best fast /medium pacer among my non-ATGs bowling line up.

 

[trundler]

Anderson has been good in some years in road as well.Anderson’s accuracy has been on another level compared to before in last some years.He is without a doubt,the best fast /medium pacer among my non-ATGs bowling line up.

I think they're arguably the best choices if we're restricted to picking non-ATGs but a swing bowler and a loose leggie would be far from optimal for containing runs. Anderson would get milked and MacGill would be a pressure release valve.

 

[karan_fromthestands]

I think they're arguably the best choices if we're restricted to picking non-ATGs but a swing bowler and a loose leggie would be far from optimal for containing runs. Anderson would get milked and MacGill would be a pressure release valve.

I always thought you had BRET HART in your profile picture. I was so wrong.

 

[Migara]

This wasn't a joke. He was incredibly accurate and economical

You can replace him with Vaas on the sub continent. Probably the most accurate seamer to come out of Asia.