CW's Ranking of Pace Bowlers (Tests)

[Bolo.]

Peter Pollock played after Adcock and was widely regarded as RSA's best ever quick before the top draw guys like Proctor and VD Bijl arrived.

I have zero idea if conventional wisdom is right here... it often isnt.

 

[The Sean]

Bishop being voted in before Wes Hall among West Indian quicks is a surprise to me - I would have thought Wesley would be next in line.

 

[Bitmap]

Adcock

 

[Bolo.]

Bishop being voted in before Wes Hall among West Indian quicks is a surprise to me - I would have thought Wesley would be next in line.

Fair call.

Bishop pre injury was the devil incarnate though. Plenty of people rated him above Ambrose at the height of Ambrose's pomp, and the height of Ambrose's pomp was crazy.

Bishop obliterated his record by playing post injury and still ended up with stats similar to Holding.

 

[The Sean]

Oh yeah for sure - Bishop was a wonderful bowler, and could have been anything but for those injuries.

 

[kyear2]

Typhoon Tyson.

 

[ataraxia]

Procter

 

[CricAddict]

Adcock

 

[Victor Ian]

Procter

 

[Xix2565]

Rabada, give the man some respect ffs.

 

[The Sean]

Rabada

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Bondy!

Shane Bondy

 

[ankitj]

Adcock

 

[palehorse]

Rabada

 

[Slifer]

Fair call.

Bishop pre injury was the devil incarnate though. Plenty of people rated him above Ambrose at the height of Ambrose's pomp, and the height of Ambrose's pomp was crazy.

Bishop obliterated his record by playing post injury and still ended up with stats similar to Holding.

This. But for injuries, Bishop would have (imo) ended up with a better record than Ambrose.

 

[Gob]

Mervyn Hughes he was a hero

 

[Victor Ian]

unselect any selections i have.

Merv Hughes.

Everyone get on this please. Gob is spectacularly right.

 

[gftw]

Adcock - 4
Bumrah - 1
Tyson - 1
Proctor - 2
Rabada - 3
Bond - 1
Hughes - 2

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
24. Shoaib Akhtar
25. Harold Larwood
26. Ian Bishop
27. Neil Adcock

The vote for the #28 test pace bowler of all-time begins now.

 

[Victor Ian]

thats bullshit. You didn't give people time to change.

 

[CricAddict]

Hughes