Cricketweb decides the greatest bowler ever in a 64 player bracket. Contest thread.

[harsh.ag]

Shoaib Akhtar vs Sir Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne vs Dennis Lillee
Fred Trueman vs Sir Curtly Ambrose
Charlie Turner vs Hedley Verity
Waqar Younis vs Malcolm Marshall
Jim Laker vs Allan Donald
Alan Davidson vs Sydney Barnes
Muttiah Muralitharan vs Dale Steyn

Get the spellings right mofos

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

CurtlEy Ambrose is making my eyes bleed

What about ALan Donald

 

[NUFAN]

Yeah Donald was annoying me more. Laker vs. Donald should be pretty tight, a couple others too.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Hadlee Variety

 

[StephenZA]

Division 1

Shoaib Akhtar vs Richard Hadlee

Division 2

Shane Warne vs Dennis Lillee

Division 3

Fred Trueman vs Curtley Ambrose

Division 4

Charlie Turner vs Hedley Verity

Division 5

Waqar Younis vs Malcolm Marshall

Division 6

Jim Laker vs Alan Donald

Division 7

Alan Davidson vs Sydney Barnes

Division 8

Muttiah Muralitharan vs Dale Steyn

 

[mr_mister]

lol my bad

 

[jimmy101]

Shoaib Akhtar vs Richard Hadlee

Division 2

Shane Warne vs Dennis Lillee

Division 3

Fred Trueman vs Curtly Ambrose

Division 4

Charlie Turner vs Hedley Verity

Division 5

Waqar Younis vs Malcolm Marshall

Division 6

Jim Laker vs Allan Donald

Division 7

Alan Davidson vs Sydney Barnes

Division 8

Muttiah Muralitharan vs Dale Steyn

^correct spelling of everyone's names (I think)

Amazed to see Shoaib & Waqar get through this far considering Wasim & Imran were both eliminated last round. Funnily enough, SF Barnes, whom Wasim lost out to last round, gets my vote ahead of Davidson this time around. The two toughest calls in my mind were Laker v Donald & Murali v Steyn.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Hadlee
Warne
Ambrose
Turner
Marshall
Donald
Barnes
Steyn

 

[kyear2]

Hadlee
Warne
Ambrose
Verity
Marshall
Donald
Davidson
Steyn

 

[ankitj]

I vote for Underwood

Edit: tie got resolved already

 

[morgieb]

Division 1

Shoaib Akhtar vs Richard Hadlee

Division 2

Shane Warne vs Dennis Lillee

Division 3

Fred Trueman vs Curtley Ambrose

Division 4

Charlie Turner vs Hedley Verity

Division 5

Waqar Younis vs Malcolm Marshall

Division 6

Jim Laker vs Alan Donald

Division 7

Alan Davidson vs Sydney Barnes

Division 8

Muttiah Muralitharan vs Dale Steyn

 

[ankitj]

Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose
---
Malcolm Marshall
Allan Donald
Sydney Barnes
Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[J_C]

Hadlee
Lillee
Ambrose
Turner
Marshall
Donald
Barnes
Muralitharan

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Division 1

Shoaib Akhtar vs Richard Hadlee

Division 2

Shane Warne vs Dennis Lillee

Division 3

Fred Trueman vs Curtley Ambrose

Division 4

Charlie Turner vs Hedley Verity

Division 5

Waqar Younis vs Malcolm Marshall

Division 6

Jim Laker vs Alan Donald

Division 7

Alan Davidson vs Sydney Barnes

Division 8

Muttiah Muralitharan vs Dale Steyn

 

[weldone]

Hadlee
Warne
Ambrose
Verity
Marshall
Laker
Barnes
Muralitharan

 

[The Sean]

Division 1

Shoaib Akhtar vs Richard Hadlee

Division 2

Shane Warne vs Dennis Lillee

Division 3

Fred Trueman vs Curtly Ambrose

Division 4

Charlie Turner vs Hedley Verity

Division 5

Waqar Younis vs Malcolm Marshall

Division 6

Jim Laker vs Allan Donald

Division 7

Alan Davidson vs Sydney Barnes

Division 8

Muttiah Muralitharan vs Dale Steyn


A couple of tight ones there and some very worthy greats will be eliminated, but overall I think this round is easier to call than the previous one. Looking ahead, the first and fourth QFs will be massive, though the other two I reckon will be pretty clear cut.

 

[Prince EWS]

I find myself irrationally happy that Charlie Turner has gotten through.

Wouldn't even be in the thing if I hadn't used all my nominations up on him. Proving his worth though.

 

[Prince EWS]

Shoaib Akhtar vs Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne vs Dennis Lillee
Fred Trueman vs Curtley Ambrose
Charlie Turner vs Hedley Verity
Waqar Younis vs Malcolm Marshall
Jim Laker vs Alan Donald
Alan Davidson vs Sydney Barnes
Muttiah Muralitharan vs Dale Steyn

 

[Howe_zat]

If the final is Warne v Murali we have to delete the thread.

Vote Steyn

 

[The Sean]

If the final is Warne v Murali we have to delete the thread.

Vote Steyn

Marshall will beat Warne IMO (assuming Hadlee doesn't, which he might). In fact, based on my view of CW preferences in this kind of thing, I reckon Marshall might already have gotten past his closest Australian rival.