Rank your Top 20 Bowlers of the modern era

[Hurricane]

Threads merged.

Should have stayed separate IMO

This way we won't know whether to give a top twenty or top ten.

 

[four_or_six]

Should have stayed separate IMO

This way we won't know whether to give a top twenty or top ten.

Well a top twenty is also a top ten...

 

[Spark]

Yeah this isn't often something that's said but Lee being overrated in Tests here.

 

[sumantra]

Should have stayed separate IMO

This way we won't know whether to give a top twenty or top ten.

and also one is specific to pace bowlers, another overall...

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

from 1990 to 2010

1) Wasim Akram
2) Curtley Ambrose
3) Glenn Mcgrath
4) Waqar Younis
5) Allan Donald
6) Shaun Pollock
7) Brett Lee
8) Courney Walsh
9) Ian Bishop
10)Bruce Reid

Brett Lee ahead of Walsh and Bishop?


(assuming that we are talking only about tests)

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Brett Lee ahead of Courtney Walsh?

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Binga wasn't a bad batsman at all. A clean striker of the ball and also has a much, much better singing voice than Walsh! Hey, the man can play the guitar pretty well too.

 

[Darth018]

from 1990 to 2010

1) Wasim Akram

Enough for my palm to make its way to my face.

 

[OMM!]

1. Ambrose
2. McGrath
3. Warne
4. Muralitharan
5. Wasim
6. Donald
7. Waqar
8. Pollock
9. Steyn
10. Walsh
11. Asif
12. Kumble
13. Gillespie
14. Bishop
15. Anderson
16. MacGill
17. Lee
18. Bond
19. Jones
20. Swann

Others: McDermott, Fraser, Ntini, Vaas and Saqlain.

 

[sumantra]

1) Curtly Ambrose
2) Wasim Akram
3) Shane Warne
4) Glenn Mcgrath
5) Muthaiah Muralidharan
6) Waqar Younis
7) Allan Donald
8) Dale Styen
9) Courtney Walsh
10) Ian Bishop
11) Anil Kumble
12) Shaun Pollock
13) Daniel Vettori
14) Brett Lee
15) Shoaib Akhtar
16) Bruce Reid
17) Jeson Gillespie
18) Saqlin Mushtaq
19) Zaheer Khan
20) Makhaya Ntini

Sorry for Morne Morkel, Javagal Srinath, Chaminda Vaas, Mushtaq Ahmed, F. De Villiars, Darren Gough and few more...

 

[zaremba]

1. Ambrose
2. McGrath
3. Warne
4. Muralitharan
5. Wasim
6. Donald
7. Waqar
8. Pollock
9. Steyn
10. Walsh
11. Asif
12. Kumble
13. Gillespie
14. Bishop
15. Anderson
16. MacGill
17. Lee
18. Bond
19. Jones
20. Swann

Others: McDermott, Fraser, Ntini, Vaas and Saqlain.

Pretty much spot on from top to bottom.

Although I can't help thinking though that Simon Jones is generally horribly over-rated on the basis of a couple of high-profile Tests in 2005.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

from 1990 to 2010

1) Wasim Akram
2) Curtley Ambrose
3) Glenn Mcgrath
4) Waqar Younis
5) Allan Donald
6) Shaun Pollock
7) Brett Lee
8) Courney Walsh
9) Ian Bishop
10)Bruce Reid

Extras
1) Dale Styen
2) Shoaib Akhtar

could not keep bond, cos he doesnt have 100 test wickets yet

1) Curtly Ambrose
2) Wasim Akram
3) Shane Warne
4) Glenn Mcgrath
5) Muthaiah Muralidharan
6) Waqar Younis
7) Allan Donald
8) Dale Styen
9) Courtney Walsh
10) Ian Bishop
11) Anil Kumble
12) Shaun Pollock
13) Daniel Vettori
14) Brett Lee
15) Shoaib Akhtar
16) Bruce Reid
17) Jeson Gillespie
18) Saqlin Mushtaq
19) Zaheer Khan
20) Makhaya Ntini

Sorry for Morne Morkel, Javagal Srinath, Chaminda Vaas, Mushtaq Ahmed, F. De Villiars, Darren Gough and few more...

So much difference of opinion in a week?

 

[sumantra]

so much difference of opinion in a week?

:d...my first one was only about the fast bowlers u see...lol

 

[The Sean]

Shaun Pollock must have really pissed you off that week...

 

[sumantra]

Shaun Pollock must have really pissed you off that week...

...and for no reason really...good one
so did brett lee...lol

 

[smash84]

Shaun Pollock must have really pissed you off that week...

 

[Tom Halsey]

1. Ambrose
2. Warne
3. McGrath
4. Murali
5. Steyn
6. Pollock
7. Donald
8. Clark
9. Wasim
10. Ntini
11. Swann
12. Waqar
13. Johnson
14. Shoaib
15. Kumble
16. Walsh
17. Bishop
18. Morkel
19. Hughes
20. Harmison

 

[smash84]

Clark at number 8? Above Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib, and Walsh?

 

[Spark]

So much difference of opinion in a week?

Hmm, not that much. A swap here and there but mostly it's just the inclusion of the spinners.

 

[Jacknife]

1. Ambrose
2. Warne
3. McGrath
4. Murali
5. Steyn
6. Pollock
7. Donald
8. Clark
9. Wasim
10. Ntini
11. Swann
12. Waqar
13. Johnson
14. Shoaib
15. Kumble
16. Walsh
17. Bishop
18. Morkel
19. Hughes
20. Harmison

Johnson ahead of Walsh, come off it.

 

[Spark]

Harmison at 20 is ITSTL. England have four pacers right now better than him.