Who was the better bowler: Glenn Mcgrath or Wasim Akram?

[TheJediBrah]

They kind of do, even right down to the Under Xs.

If you drop a couple in the slips, you get moved out. Drop them in the field you get moved where catches don't go. If the team has a shocker the coach would have you do some fielding practice.

So if your whole team continues to be ****, it's got to be a mental thing where they don't really care, are not actually being in a state of mind ready to take a catch every ball, and that is not something you can really chop and change players for.

There are plenty of fat ****s who field in slips in local cricket who never get moved because they are not mobile enough to field anywhere else. They are often horrendous in the slips and don't touch anything that isn't hit straight to them and even them drop it half the time

 

[Gob]

So?

Are you suggesting fitness is based on how many yorkers someone bowls?

I read a research article somewhere which suggested fuller you bowl, more the strain you put on your back and we all know you have to bowl very full to generate swing. No wonder back of the length bowlers like McGrath, Walsh have longer careers compared to Bond, Harris etc

 

[_00_deathscar]

I read a research article somewhere which suggested fuller you bowl, more the strain you put on your back and we all know you have to bowl very full to generate swing. No wonder back of the length bowlers like McGrath, Walsh have longer careers compared to Bond, Harris etc

Yes that 160+ test career Jimmy is known for his back of the length bowling and vicious bouncers.

 

[Gob]

Yes that 160+ test career Jimmy is known for his back of the length bowling and vicious bouncers.

Hey its science and research

 

[honestbharani]

I read a research article somewhere which suggested fuller you bowl, more the strain you put on your back and we all know you have to bowl very full to generate swing. No wonder back of the length bowlers like McGrath, Walsh have longer careers compared to Bond, Harris etc

But Wasim did bowl a lot of yorkers and remained fit enough to play for 17 years?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Can't imagine that research article actually being much chop

 

[Gob]

But Wasim did bowl a lot of yorkers and remained fit enough to play for 17 years?

Wasim was a muscular strong man that's how he got through

 

[Gob]

Can't imagine that research article actually being much chop

Ill try to dig that

 

[Starfighter]

I read a research article somewhere which suggested fuller you bowl, more the strain you put on your back and we all know you have to bowl very full to generate swing. No wonder back of the length bowlers like McGrath, Walsh have longer careers compared to Bond, Harris etc

You remember the article? I got quite a few articles on bowling biomechanics and that detail ain't in them.

 

[Flem274*]

Jimmy doesn't bowl as full as you'd think since 2008 though and the stats away from the duke ball reflect this. He's very good at sitting in the good length corridor. It's crucial to his knack for bowling dry when nothing is happening.

I was gonna refute with Southee and Boult instead, but on the rare occasion they get a proper injury it's a back injury, so maybe the paper was onto something.