Exciting bowlers

[Tom Halsey]

Which bowler would you pay to watch?

Would it be an economical one, or an expensive wicket taker?

 

[Neil Pickup]

Harmison & Agarkar (as a fan of)
Shoaib & Bond (destructive value)
Warne & Muralitharan (guile)

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

Bond or akhtar.You never know when they'll unleash one of their 155+ kph in swinging yorkers of DOOM.

 

[Bouncer]

Bond or akhtar.You never know when they'll unleash one of their 155+ kph in swinging yorkers of DOOM.

I agree Bond provides the same thrill as Waqar did in early 90's....but guess who did i vote for out of these two.

 

[Armadillo]

Harmison & Agarkar (as a fan of)
Shoaib & Bond (destructive value)
Warne & Muralitharan (guile)

Harmison, harmison, the most boring bowler in the world harmison?

 

[Tom Halsey]

Better than Shabir Ahmed and all that rubbish.

 

[Armadillo]

Better than Shabir Ahmed and all that rubbish.

least he can bowl a ball on target

 

[Tom Halsey]

Which, in Bangladesh, after cutting his pace down, so can Harmison.

 

[Armadillo]

ahem, bangladesh

 

[Tom Halsey]

The quality of the batsmen does not affect whether they bowl accurately or not.

 

[Armadillo]

The quality of the batsmen does not affect whether they bowl accurately or not.

yeah cos they'll chase it when its five foot outside outside off stump, when the bowler gets the wicket he takes credit for it

 

[Tom Halsey]

It still doesn't affect whether they are bowling accurately or not!!

P.S. When will you get the point?

 

[Ford_GTHO351]

Glenn McGrath, he is just a superb bowler who consistently takes wickets & with superb economy.

 

[Armadillo]

It still doesn't affect whether they are bowling accurately or not!!

P.S. When will you get the point?

never, besides that is drifting from the point, the point is that danish will not be coming to cricket tomorrow! he is grounded, lets have a party!!

 

[NikhilN]

Do you have anything against Zaheer Khan? :P

 

[Langeveldt]

Glenn McGrath, he is just a superb bowler who consistently takes wickets & with superb economy.

But is he exciting???

 

[Langeveldt]

Allan Donald!!!!


Honourable Mentions

Andre Nel
Mfuneko Ngam
Shoaib Akhtar

 

[Ford_GTHO351]

But is he exciting???

Well IMO the way he can make even good batsmen look ordinary (when he gets them out) with his superb line and length. That excites me

 

[Tom Halsey]

But is he exciting???

Some people find that exciting.

Hence why I started the poll. It would be obvious as to the winners otherwise.

 

[Richard]

Harmison, harmison, the most boring bowler in the world harmison?

Better than Shabir Ahmed and all that rubbish.

Which, in Bangladesh, after cutting his pace down, so can Harmison.

ahem, bangladesh

The quality of the batsmen does not affect whether they bowl accurately or not.

yeah cos they'll chase it when its five foot outside outside off stump, when the bowler gets the wicket he takes credit for it

It still doesn't affect whether they are bowling accurately or not!!

P.S. When will you get the point?

A lot of quotes, a lot of points:
halsey: Harmison, better than Shabbir Ahmed? You've got to be having a serious there. Shabbir Ahmed is a superb bowler. Harmison is rubbish.
And he's rubbish not because he's not accurate, but because he can't move the ball sideways.
He started being accurate not in Bangladesh, but in The Third Test against South Africa. Indeed, he had bowled very, very accurately for Durham in the early part of the summer. Strangely, he then bowled waywardly for England, waywardly for Durham - then accurately for England again! No sense made there.:rolleyes:
No, the quality of the batsman does not effect whether someone bowls accurately or not (nor, for that matter, whether they bowl wicket-taking deliveries) but I can assure you, every single one of the Harmison wickets in Bangladesh came from poor batting not good bowling.
However, Bangladeshi batsmen aren't the only ones who play poor strokes. Good batsmen do it too, they just usually score more runs in between.