CW's Ranking of Pace Bowlers (Tests)

[morgieb]

Bedser

 

[Coronis]

Ahktar

 

[ankitj]

Shoaib Akhtar

 

[Nikhil99.99]

Alec bedser

 

[The Sean]

I thought we were keeping Bedser for the medium pacers? Otherwise I'd have voted for him before now.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Willis

 

[morgieb]

I thought we were keeping Bedser for the medium pacers? Otherwise I'd have voted for him before now.

Yeah, that's why I kept asking before voting for him. He deserves to be picked but I don't know if he was eligible.

That said, wasn't Davidson largely a medium-pacer too?

 

[HookShot]

The reason that England were able to beat both the West Indies (1969, 27 wickets) and then Australia (1970/71, 31 wickets) on their home turf.....

John Snow

 

[morgieb]

If we're counting Bedser as a medium-pacer I'll go Shoaib.

 

[Pap Finn Keighl]

Kapil

 

[gftw]

Shoaib - 3
Willis - 4
Bedser - 3
Hall - 1
Snow - 1
Kapil - 1

The List
1. Malcolm Marshall
2. Glenn Mcgrath
3. Richard Hadlee
4. Curtly Ambrose
5. Dale Steyn
6. Imran Khan
7. Dennis Lillee
8. Fred Trueman
9. Wasim Akram
10. Allan Donald
11. Joel Garner
12. Ray Lindwall
13. Michael Holding
14. Waqar Younis
15. Alan Davidson
16. Shaun Pollock
17. Courtney Walsh
18. Andy Roberts
19. James Anderson
20. Pat Cummins
21. Keith Miller
22. Brian Statham
23. Bob Willis

The vote for the #24 test pace bowler of all-time begins now.

 

[srbhkshk]

Shoaib

 

[ataraxia]

Bedser (if not him, then Wagner)

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Bishop

 

[The Sean]

It's an interesting contrast that Larwood had a lot of supporters for a spot in the top 15, but virtually none for a spot in the low 20s.

 

[The Sean]

There are a bunch of blokes I'm deliberately excluding here on the assumption that they'll be part of the very-hard-to-define medium-pacers list (Tate, Bedser, Johnston, Fazal, Botham, Philander among others), so on that basis my vote is:

Kagiso Rabada

 

[Line and Length]

Larwood

 

[subshakerz]

Fazal

 

[Nikhil99.99]

It's an interesting contrast that Larwood had a lot of supporters for a spot in the top 15, but virtually none for a spot in the low 20s.

Harold should have finished higher Imo.I don’t think say Miller despite having better bowling average was anywhere better bowler than Harold .Just my opinion of course.
Seems like we got new vote for Larwood.So ,Larwood for one more time.
@Fuller Pilch
@HookShot
@Daemon
Seems like you haven’t voted this round.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Akhtar