Part time bowlers you love to watch?

[karan316]

Yap, Astle was nice to watch. Yuvraj is also a good one, has a natural free flowing action and gets a fair amount of drift.

 

[Pothas]

Trott. Actually saw him get a test wicket live, it was superb.

 

[Migara]

Nathan Astle, Vireder Sehwag, Aravinda de Silva were my favorite part timers, possibly due to copy book and smoothest of actions.

On a side note, who was regarded as the quickest part timer? Is it Phil Simmons or were there any one quicker than him?

 

[King Pietersen]

Ben Stokes. Really handy part-time dobbler.

 

[fredfertang]

Bill Edrich was distinctly sharp just after the war - my old man reckoned his action was much like Jeff Thomson's, although nothing like as good, obviously

 

[JontyPanesar]

Tendulkar had great leggies and offies. Rob's video of his 5fer at kochi is a lot of fun to watch. And he has taken a number of memorable test wickets.
Pretty fun to watch bevan bowl too.
Among offies, Vaughan, KP, Junior, and Sehwag
SLA: Pup

Chanderpaul's trash had a charm of its own. Watch as said great batsman gets out to atrociously bad bowling. Specifically thinking of tugga and laxman

 

[Maximas]

dunno if Simon Katich has been mentioned, but he was also great to watch

 

[JontyPanesar]

Any part timer who tried to do more than just contain I liked watching. So by default, all wrist spinners pretty much

 

[Isura]

Jayasuriya.

 

[King Pietersen]

I used to quite enjoy watching Michael Vaughan bowl. I quite liked that loopy action he had. You've gotta love the left-arm chinaman of Simon Katich too.

 

[Jono]

Michael Bevan's bowling looked so ****ing uncoordinated it was addictive.

 

[Spikey]

cant believe mark waugh wasnt mentioned within the first 4 posts. probably the greatest off-spinner ever

MARK WAUGH - EVERY WICKET IN TEST CRICKET...... - YouTube

 

[robelinda]

20 mins of Mark Waugh wickets, 1900 views. Up yours, youtube. Golden collection of footage.

 

[jackbyrne91]

Jayasuriya.

Jayasuria is not a part-timer. He took 323 wickets in ODI Cricket.

 

[jackbyrne91]

Carl Hooper's off spin. Legend.

 

[Daemon]

On a side note, who was regarded as the quickest part timer? Is it Phil Simmons or were there any one quicker than him?

Matthew Wade

 

[Prince EWS]

I also nominate Greg Mail on the "surprisingly fast" stakes. He was an opening batsman and semi-regular wicket keeper at grade level who NSW decided to throw the ball when he played for us, and he proceeded to send down thunderbolts at ~ 130km/hr; much like Wade I guess. He went on to take 14 First Class wickets and then go back to grade cricket and pick up the odd random 6 or 7 wicket haul at that level afterwards. Wasn't actually that fun to watch though.

 

[honestbharani]

Afridi and his quicker ball? Marlon Samuels?

 

[Himannv]

Tendulkar's leggies

Agree completely. Didn't particularly enjoy watching him bat but loved watching him bowl. He used to pitch it in the rough outside leg and spin it to varying degrees, It was so devastating at one point that I think he was probably the best Indian bowler at the time.

 

[nightprowler10]

Afridi and his quicker ball? Marlon Samuels?

Afridi's not a part-timer.