World's tallest/shortest cricketers

[GermanShepherd]

Probably 5'9" or 5'10". Can't bowl that fast if he's any shorter.

Height has nothing to do with it. Tino Best is 5"7 but he can bowl at the speeds Malinga is capable of.

 

[Arjun]

Height has nothing to do with it. Tino Best is 5"7 but he can bowl at the speeds Malinga is capable of.

They won't last very long- they'll run out of steam. Agarkar started off fast, but has slowed down a great deal. Donald and Waqar could bowl fast even in their 30's. Fast bowling is a power game.

 

[Neil Pickup]

As proved by the fact that Malcolm Marshall was such a useless shortarse.

 

[a massive zebra]

They won't last very long- they'll run out of steam. Agarkar started off fast, but has slowed down a great deal. Donald and Waqar could bowl fast even in their 30's. Fast bowling is a power game.

Really? Harold Larwood (5ft 6) and Malcolm Marshall (5ft 9) bowled fast for years.

 

[Richard]

Well, we don't really know how long Larwood bowled fast for, do we?
(For that matter, we don't know for certian how fast he bowled - we just know Richie and Don said he wasn't as quick as Tyson - not amazing!)
Because he disappeared from the limelight in 1933 and never returned to it (well, except briefly in 1964 or something)

 

[NikhilN]

Parthiv is the smallest Cricketer I have seen so far

 

[iamdavid]

And who played for Glam at the tail-end of last season.
And had a shocker... sadly.
Rather liked what I saw of him the first time I saw him bowl.
Vics had some attack not long ago: Inness, Harwood, Lewis, Harvey, Warne, (Moss, MacDonald... )

Whats so funny about McDonald ?

 

[iamdavid]

When Hasan Raza made his test debut he was very , very short (although he was supposedly on 14 years of age).
But he's grown a bit since then.

Im pretty sure Kalu is shorter than both Parthiv Patel and Taibu.

Steve Macgoffin , who moved from Queensland to WA during the offseason in 6 ft 8.

 

[Richard]

Whats so funny about McDonald ?

Well, I watched a few deliveries and I couldn't for the life of me work-out how he was as successful last season as he was.
And I've watched more than a few of Moss, and how he was so successful totally blows my mind!

 

[Richard]

They won't last very long- they'll run out of steam. Agarkar started off fast, but has slowed down a great deal. Donald and Waqar could bowl fast even in their 30's. Fast bowling is a power game.

Arjun, a conasseur of the power in cricket such as yourself should surely realise that you don't need height to have power, in either bowling or batting.
The best players can get power from anywhere.

 

[iamdavid]

McDonald can be deceptive , he's not quick by any means but on his day he can be very accurate and in green conditions he can move the ball around quite a bit , he's probably not as good as last season suggests but he's still got some potential.
Also has some ability with the bat.

Moss is obviously a batsman first and foremost , they tend to bring him on as a partnership breaker and he's got that knack of taking a key wicket with an ordinary delivery , I wouldnt really say he's been awfully succesful with the ball.

 

[Richard]

He had a pretty darn good record after last season.
Then he was rather exposed in the county game.

 

[a massive zebra]

http://usa.cricinfo.com/link_to_dat...NEWS/2004/JUN/166388_CRICKETER_10JUN2004.html

 

[Richard]

Interesting stuff, amz, trust you to come-up with it!

 

[Craig]

If Peter Fulton plays for New Zealand (which will happen over this summer it seems), he will stand at around 2m tall, and will be able to look Jacob Oram directly in the eye.

And Dan Vettori is probably 6 4.

 

[Arrow]

Tom moody was 6'6 or maybe 6'7 i cant quite remember.
I heard oram was 6'6 which is 198cm tall.
Glen mcrath is 6'6
Gillespie is 6'5
Fleming is 6'3

 

[Hudda]

I think Ambrose was 6'7"

 

[2 fast 2 furios]

shabbir ahmed i think is really tall unless the whole pakistan team is really short and he just sticks out alot when they huddle

 

[Western Warrior]

Australian left arm fast bowler Bruce Reid was 6'8" and had the injuries to prove it.

 

[James90]

Moody was 6ft6