Who is the most intelligent bowler of all time?

[sayon basak]

Just wondering if you’ve ever bowled leg spin.

Doesn't matter really. In the college level I do bowl left arm leggies, but guess that doesn't count.

 

[Daemon]

The Brain

 

[sayon basak]

The Brain

This Brain?

 

[Coronis]

This Brain?
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Jeez parents have always been cruel with names haven’t they?

 

[sayon basak]

Jeez parents have always been cruel with names haven’t they?

I would like to believe this post was intended to this man:-

 

[shortpitched713]

Marshall, Steyn, smaller in size ATG bowlers.

Also any ATG spinners, so Murali, Warne. Ashwin will of course always remind you of the size of his big brain.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I think Glenn McGrath and Richard Hadlee because they didn't need extreme pace

McGrath still had that uneasy bounce because of his height and arm length which is a more intrinsic physical attribute than pace. Not saying he wasn't a genius of course, but I don't think he had to overcome physical limitations as much as some others, just used what he had perfectly.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Which bowler showed the most tactical nous in defeating batsmen?

For as many magic balls as he bowled, I've not seen another bowler psych as many batsmen out by just bowling normal deliveries as Warne did. Just amazing mindgames.

If I could pick one bowler to be micd up his entire career, it'd definitely be Warne. That little glimpse we got into his brain for that McCullum wicket in the bbl was glorious.

 

[subshakerz]

For as many magic balls as he bowled, I've not seen another bowler psych as many batsmen out by just bowling normal deliveries as Warne did. Just amazing mindgames.

If I could pick one bowler to be micd up his entire career, it'd definitely be Warne. That little glimpse we got into his brain for that McCullum wicket in the bbl was glorious.

Yeah the Warne mindwarp was something else.

This was a classic to McMillan. Only Warne could do that with a harmless delivery outside leg.

 

[Migara]

Still think learning standard flipper is a waste of time, when you can use carrom ball grip to bowl back spinners.

Especially if you can spin it using the fourth finger. I used to bowl it, and some times when the conditions are good, snakes in as an in swinger. It is many times easy to bowl the carom ball using 4th finger rather than middle one.

 

[subshakerz]

Marshall, Steyn, smaller in size ATG bowlers.

Also any ATG spinners, so Murali, Warne. Ashwin will of course always remind you of the size of his big brain.

I rarely saw Steyn outsmart a batsmen. More overwhelm them with swing.

 

[Migara]

For as many magic balls as he bowled, I've not seen another bowler psych as many batsmen out by just bowling normal deliveries as Warne did. Just amazing mindgames.

Indian batsmen: "What mind games?"

 

[Migara]

Among pacers it is McGrath. Among spinners probably it goes to Ashwin and Swann.

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

Hadlee(just over Mcgrath)

 

[subshakerz]

Scary bowler without being fast. Calculating menace with an air of inevitability and the bounce he extracted goes under the radar.

I still think this is the most perfectly executed hattrick ever. Each ball calculated to a bats weaknesses.

 

[Migara]

Yeah the Warne mindwarp was something else.
This was a classic to McMillan. Only Warne could do that with a harmless delivery outside leg.

That over to a subcontinental batsman will disappear for 20 runs.

 

[subshakerz]

That over to a subcontinental batsman will disappear for 20 runs.

Nah. Pakistani bats were capable of being spastic against Warne.

 

[ankitj]

Jadeja

 

[DrWolverine]

Dennis Lillee?

Intelligent to play only 4 Tests outside Aus, Eng and NZ?

 

[sayon basak]

Dennis Lillee?

Intelligent to play only 4 Tests outside Aus, Eng and NZ?

Give this man his doctorate.