Bouncers in the old days

[Richard]

Call it '79/80 if you want, though obviously that was during one of the brief periods Richards was fulfilling the second-best-after-Bradman mantra that some have festooned him with. So it'd hardly be fair, because whatever you bowled at him at that point it'd have disappeared.

Let's say had West Indies rather than England been touring in 1986/87, if you prefer.

 

[fredfertang]

Phil Edmonds used to bowl bouncers when he was getting bored although I can't remember any specific recipient off hand

 

[Richard]

Recall Shane Warne bowling a couple as well - bizzarely, all in ODIs.

 

[Top_Cat]

Recall Shane Warne bowling a couple as well - bizzarely, all in ODIs.

He bowled them in Tests too. One example, Ashes '05, he bounced KP.

 

[vic_orthdox]

He bowled them in Tests too. One example, Ashes '05, he bounced KP.

Think he might have sent a few down over on one of the tours of India that he got spanked in.

 

[Noble One]

I remember a World Series Cricket game in 1994 against Australia 'A' that Shane Warne bowled a bouncer and it went whistling past the batsman and keeper to the boundary. It was always a sign of his frustration, invariably he would be pulled from the attack. Can't imagine it did his shoulder much good either.

 

[Richard]

Think he might have sent a few down over on one of the tours of India that he got spanked in.

Presumably would've been the 2000/01 one - I'm sure it was a "new" weapon the C&U Series that summer.

And I can't believe I don't remember him bouncing Pietersen in 2005.

 

[Noble One]

Presumably would've been the 2000/01 one - I'm sure it was a "new" weapon the C&U Series that summer.

And I can't believe I don't remember him bouncing Pietersen in 2005.

YouTube - Shane Warne vs England 2005

1:10 in. Fairly harmless stuff.

 

[Richard]

Remember it now I watch it. And it's harmless for sure, but it's still an interesting and worth-a-try change-up.