Ranking the Bowlers

[Buddhmaster]

Lindwall

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Lindwall.

 

[Matt79]

Lindwall

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Yeah, Lindwall.

 

[BhupinderSingh]

Lindwall

 

[BhupinderSingh]

Dennis Lillee above Imran Khan,S.Barnes & Wasim Akram is a joke.

 

[Beleg]

Shaun Pollock

 

[nightprowler10]

Yeah, Lindwall

 

[silentstriker]

Lindwall

 

[Fusion]

Lindwall

 

[aussie tragic]

Lindwall

 

[cover drive man]

Warne

 

[adharcric]

Warne

He's already made it at #6.

Lindwall cruises through.

The List
1. Malcolm Marshall (WI)
2. Muttiah Muralitharan (SRI)
3. Glenn McGrath (AUS)
4. Curtly Ambrose (WI)
5. Richard Hadlee (NZ)
6. Shane Warne (AUS)
7. Fred Trueman (ENG)
8. Dennis Lillee (AUS)
9. Sydney Barnes (ENG)
10. Imran Khan (PAK)
11. Allan Donald (RSA)
12. Wasim Akram (PAK)
13. Bill O'Reilly (AUS)
14. Michael Holding (WI)
15. Alan Davidson (AUS)
16. Joel Garner (WI)
17. Waqar Younis (PAK)
18. Ray Lindwall (AUS)

The vote for the #19 bowler of all-time begins now.

The Contenders

 

[silentstriker]

Courtney Walsh. Not as explosive as the others - but the man did it for 17 years, and he looked like he could go for another 17. A real workhorse, needs to get in IMO.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Lohmann

 

[silentstriker]

There are times, very seldom, when I become very emotional. This final day of Courtney Walsh's Test career was one of those situations. I would suggest that many at the Sabina Park cricket ground had a tear to shed for Walsh, even as the West Indies won the last Test of this series.

When Marlon Samuels took the lofted catch to dismiss Paul Adams, the last South African batsman, enabling the West Indies to win their first Test since June last year, and condemn the visitors to their first loss in 13 games, no one paid any attention to him at all. Why should they?

Every player, even bowler Merv Dillon, were hugging Walsh with tremendous emotion, euphoria and appreciation. Even the younger ones, those who were just pups when Walsh played his first Test in 1984, joined in the celebrations.

From his first wicket, Australian Graeme Wood in 1984, through his 435th, Henry Olonga, caught at forward short leg by Wavell Hinds, and his 500th, Jacques Kallis, LBW, to his last, Allan Donald, to give him his 519th Test wicket, Courtney Walsh has been the ultimate professional in 132 Tests, producing when it mattered most. Walsh ended the final Test with match figures of 6-93, giving him a final series tally of 25 wickets, more than any player on either team. Yet he is retiring.

What a performer. What a void he now leaves.

At lunch, with South Africa on 209-4, after Neil McKenzie had been dismissed by Dininath Ramnarine for 55, it still looked as if South Africa could pull it off. Kallis was still batting well. Then Ramnarine dismissed Kallis for 51 and Mark Boucher for no score in the same over immediately after lunch. It was all over bar the shouting.

Walsh then collected both Justin Kemp and his last wicket, Donald, before Dillon had the last man Adams.

Few moments make me emotional, me being a cynical asshole...but I was sad to see him go.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Underwood

 

[aussie tragic]

19. Jim Laker. Andy Roberts and Keith Miller Next

 

[adharcric]

I don't usually display my vote, but Lohmann for sure.

 

[a massive zebra]

Lohmann.