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Greatest ODI Bowler

Who is the greatest ODI bowler of all time?

  • Muttiah Muralitharan

    Votes: 4 7.1%

  • Wasim Akram

    Votes: 14 25.0%

  • Joel Garner

    Votes: 16 28.6%

  • Glenn Mcgrath

    Votes: 15 26.8%

  • Jadeja

    Votes: 6 10.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 1.8%
  • Total voters
    56
Victor Ian

Victor Ian

International Coach
miscer said:
You can’t compare 2 players in a team sport without team context. This isn’t the long jump
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its circular reasoning. Australia were great because McGrath was great. Batsmen could bat with intent, confident McGrath would bail them out if they failed. Fielders caught stuff because he bowled a predictable line and they knew what they were looking for. None of this random **** that you cant predict. McGrath would have made Pakistan great. That is the context.

Wasim was awesome, but his greatness did not infect his team mates. It's not a coincidence that all Australia's riches coincide exactly with McGrath's career.
 
Pap Finn Keighl

Pap Finn Keighl

International Debutant
Victor Ian said:
its circular reasoning. Australia were great because McGrath was great. Batsmen could bat with intent, confident McGrath would bail them out if they failed. Fielders caught stuff because he bowled a predictable line and they knew what they were looking for. None of this random **** that you cant predict. McGrath would have made Pakistan great. That is the context.

Wasim was awesome, but his greatness did not infect his team mates. It's not a coincidence that all Australia's riches coincide exactly with McGrath's career.
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Yes

WC Winner Sreeshanth > Allan Donald.
 
Migara

Migara

International Coach
Victor Ian said:
its circular reasoning. Australia were great because McGrath was great. Batsmen could bat with intent, confident McGrath would bail them out if they failed. Fielders caught stuff because he bowled a predictable line and they knew what they were looking for. None of this random **** that you cant predict. McGrath would have made Pakistan great. That is the context.

Wasim was awesome, but his greatness did not infect his team mates. It's not a coincidence that all Australia's riches coincide exactly with McGrath's career.
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McGrath / Garner would have been particularly great for Pakistan because they did not have a bowler of substance of his metronomic accuacy. Imran, Wasim, Waqar and Shoaib were lot more erratic than McGrath / Garner, but to compensate bowled much more jaffas with ridiculous ease. Even Pollock or Vaas would have lifted them a notch up, because it would provide the steady seamer while others can experiment.
 
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subshakerz

Hall of Fame Member
My first choice is McGrath for his record, followed by Wasim and Garner. These three are close and any order would be fine.

Murali's unlike the other three didn't win his side a WC and that takes him out of consideration. I don't think he even has a clear case to be better than Saqlain.
 
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Daemon

Daemon

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I don’t think anyone beats Starc’s wickets at 10 apiece in the 2015 WC. That was a tournament where Maxwell was striking at 200 and ABdV made a ton off like 4 balls.

Then he cleans up Baz in the final. Just so good.
 
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