The balls of the century

[Pup Clarke]

Anderson to Braithwaite in 2015. Big booming in-swinger as Athers says. Pretty sure nobody is playing that

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Does it have to be a test match delivery? If not, Bond's yorker to Adam Gilchrist would get my vote.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

 

[Bijed]

I probably wouldn't vote for it as *the* best, but Swann bowled a Pakistan opener (Imran Farhat maybe?) with a ripper in 2010

 

[Howe_zat]

I probably wouldn't vote for it as *the* best, but Swann bowled a Pakistan opener (Imran Farhat maybe?) with a ripper in 2010

Good shout, pretty much a mirror image of the one in the OP

 

[nightprowler10]

Asif to Laxman, during the formers coming out party. @00:44.

 

[Daemon]

That’s basically an offbreak at 80mph

 

[Migara]

Bumrah's slower ball yorker to Marsh should be in there imo, never really seen that take a wicket in Tests apart from maybe Akhtar?

Malinga did it at least twice in that NZ series when he was hitting 155k+.

 

[Migara]

Malinga to Kevin Pietersen

 

[Migara]

Some slower Yorkers from Malinga. One to Pollock is especially good.

 

[Migara]

And of course this.

 

[Migara]

Malinga's ball to KP is no fluke. He bowled a lifter which was slightly slower and slightly off target in the same over, and then produced this. No involvement of cracks whatsoever.

 

[Flem274*]

Malinga did it at least twice in that NZ series when he was hitting 155k+.

Malinga to Kevin Pietersen

And of course this.

Malinga's ball to KP is no fluke. He bowled a lifter which was slightly slower and slightly off target in the same over, and then produced this. No involvement of cracks whatsoever.

ok

 

[OverratedSanity]

Asif to Laxman, during the formers coming out party. @00:44.

Oh I remember this one, the whole spell was awesome but that one ball did stick out. A few from his spell at galle probably up there.

Edit: It was kandy. The one to Tharanga is pretty great

 

[smash84]

Asif to Laxman, during the formers coming out party. @00:44.

This match would forever be remembered for Kami Khatmal. Irfan Pathan's hattrick, Asif's tremendous spells, all take a back seat thanks to the once in a lifetime Kakmal performance (and not ruining with his keeping either).

 

[Bahnz]

The Ryan Harris one was good, but Mitchell Johnson castling Cook in the 13/14 Ashes tops it for me. The ball swung in and decked away a mile off the pitch, all at 150 kmh. Try playing that.

 

[vcs]

There were some gorgeous deliveries in the Pathan hattrick as well. The one to Mohammad Yousuf was a pretty special one IIRC.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Bit of a left field one and sorry for not posting a vid (I'm sure Migara will have one good to go) there were a few insane spells in ~2011-12 tri series by Nuwan Kulasekara where he was swinging it a mile. Brisbane especially I think had a few incredible deliveries.

 

[Daemon]

The Ryan Harris one was good, but Mitchell Johnson castling Cook in the 13/14 Ashes tops it for me. The ball swung in and decked away a mile off the pitch, all at 150 kmh. Try playing that.

Yeah, Harris hit a crack as well.

Johnson's was just ridiculous. The only thing going against it is the stump wasn't flattened.

Cook was shaping up to flick lol, it was nuts

 

[TheJediBrah]

Cook was in no sorts to be playing that Johnson ball at that point though, and his horror form made it look a lot better than it was. Even if the ball hadn't swung at all he would have missed it by a way. 2010-11 Cook facing the same ball probably could have handled it. Maybe nicked it behind at worst. The Harris one was just genuinely unplayable.

@Daemon, Harris one didn't hit a crack. If you watch closely it didn't actually deviate off the pitch at all. It swing into Cook before it pitched, then went straight on after it pitched, then somehow swung away in the air after pitching. No one's playing that.