Worst of Part Time bowling

[Durham_CCC]

Andrew Strauss V Zimbabwe ODI.
MS Dohni V England
A.Cook V S.Africa.

Any more ?

 

[Burgey]

Me vs Greystanes 2004-2005 was pretty well the worst ever seen I think. Thank Christ it aint on YouTube.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Dhoni bowled okay.

 

[Richard]

I thought Dhoni was remarkably good for a wicketkeeper.

Alastair Cook too is actually a semi-capable bowler who bowled a decent bit in his first couple of seasons for Essex.

Mark Boucher and Ajay Ratra on the other hand...

Neil Fairbrother was pretty diabolical when I saw him bowl in 2001.

Owais Shah has to be the worst bowler I've ever seen of those who their captains apparently take their bowling seriously.

 

[Jigga988]

BC Lara was pretty poor...

 

[Top_Cat]

Cam White vs India.

 

[Jigga988]

Cam White vs India.

Cam White=all rounder

Though, Keiron Pollard (the crap KP) is also supposed to be an allrounder but his bowling was DIRE in NZ in the last series - come to think of it so was his batting... why do we pick that guy again...?

 

[HMas]

Mohd Yousuf against Zim in WC 2007...

 

[Top_Cat]

Cam White=all rounder

I don't care what he calls himself. Anyway;

 

[_Ed_]

Haha.

Lou Vincent v Australia was rather poor IIRC. Got the treatment.

 

[thierry henry]

Haha.

Lou Vincent v Australia was rather poor IIRC. Got the treatment.

Harsh imo

iirc in the midst of an onslaught he came on and bowled either a maiden, or conceded 1 run, something like that. He was then given a second over which conceded 20 including 3 Mussey 6s

Unlike some of the joke options brought up in this thread LV is a genuine part-timer though, bowls around 120kph and vaguely accurate

I recall MoYo bowling v NZ in 2000/01 when a test was meandering to a draw (I think) now he was dire, under 100kph and actually bowled a double-bouncer

 

[Flem274*]

Haha.

Lou Vincent v Australia was rather poor IIRC. Got the treatment.

Lou had a good first over. Should have opened the bowling in the game.

 

[andruid]

Mohd Yousuf against Zim in WC 2007...

He got a wicket

 

[Simon]

Remember Adam Gilchrist bowling 1.3 overs in the Prime Ministers XI vs the Windies a few years back. Came on after Dan Marsh stood on the ball and rolled his ankle so couldnt finish the over. First three balls were reasonable then got hit for a six in his next over by Darren Ganga.

 

[sanga1337]

Inzamam Ul-Haq bowling in the ICL.

 

[bryce]

I remember seeing Stephen Fleming bowl(mid/late 90's I think) definately right arm slow

 

[_Ed_]

He took a wicket once in an ODI, didn't he?

 

[Nishan]

yah flem took a priced Scalp against the dutch at 96 world cup

 

[BoyBrumby]

Shah's pretty execrable, although his figures in ODIs (econ aside) aren't that horrible. Insanely flattering for his skill level, in fact. I suppose it's partly due to the "if the bowler doesn't know where it's going to land, what chance does the batsman have?" effect.

Incidentally, does anyone know of any non-keepers with significant FC/List A careers who've never bowled a ball in anger? None spring to mind.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Haha, bit of a suspect action from Inzy there.