2024 Ranking of Bowlers Poll

[CricAddict]

Snow
Larwood
Benaud

All 3 deserve to be in top 50.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Hall
Larwood
Benaud

All 3 deserve to be in top 50.

Hall is already in

 

[Sunil1z]

Looks like Test series loss to Aussies has made Kiwis to take a break from this forum.

Why no one is posting about Boult and Wagner ?

 

[Bitmap]

Snow
Larwood
Chandrasekhar

 

[Xix2565]

Hazlewood
Broad
Boult

 

[howitzer]

Snow
Benaud
Johnston

 

[ataraxia]

Hazlewood
Broad
Johnston

 

[Coronis]

Benaud
Snow
Herath

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Looks like Test series loss to Aussies has made Kiwis to take a break from this forum.

Why no one is posting about Boult and Wagner ?

Because they are inferior to Cowie and Jamieson.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Because they are inferior to Cowie and Jamieson.

Had much better careers though....

 

[kyear2]

Snow
Larwood
Chandra

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Larwood
Snow
Broad

 

[shortpitched713]

Bill Johnston
Stuart Broad
Stuart Johnson

 

[capt_Luffy]

Bill Johnston
Stuart Broad
Stuart Johnson

Who is Stuart Johnson?? Never heard of him

 

[shortpitched713]

Placeholder name, combining the attributes of Stuart Clark and Mitchell Johnson.

 

[Pothas]

Hazlewood
Broad
Bedi

 

[Slifer]

Bishop
Hall
Philander

 

[shortpitched713]

Bishop
Hall
Philander

All 3 of them are already in, my dude.

 

[Slifer]

All 3 of them are already in, my dude.

Oh...

 

[Line and Length]

The votes are in to complete our final 2024 Top 50 Poll.
24 - Snow; 12 - Broad. Larwood; 9 - Hazelwood; 6 - Benaud, Chandrasekhar; 5 - Johnston; 4 - Bedi; 3 - Swann, Tyson, Boult;
1 - Wardle, Herath + a jest vote.
Broad and Larwood havve identical votes and tie for 49/50
My thanks to all those who contributed to this poll.
I will be posting a new thread showing the changes from the 2022 poll.

The final placings:

	* = Current player	Tests	Wickets	Average	S.R.	E.R.	WPM
1	M.Marshall	81	376	20.95	46.77	2.69	4.64
2	G.McGrath	124	563	21.64	51.95	2.50	4.54
3	R.Hadlee	86	431	22.30	50.85	2.63	5.01
4	M.Muralitharan	133	800	22.73	55.05	2.48	6.02
5	S. Warne	145	708	25.42	57.49	2.65	4.89
6	Dale Steyn	93	439	22.95	42.39	3.25	4.72
7	C.Ambrose	98	405	20.99	54.85	2.31	4.13
8	Imran Khan	88	362	22.81	53.75	2.55	4.11
9	S.F.Barnes	27	189	16.43	41.66	2.37	7.00
10	B.O'Reilly	27	144	22.60	69.61	1.95	5.33
11	Wasim Akram	104	414	23.62	54.65	2.59	3.98
12	D.Lillee	70	355	23.92	52.02	2.76	5.07
13	A.Donald	72	330	22.25	47.03	2.84	4.58
14	F.Trueman	67	307	21.58	49.44	2.62	4.58
15	J.Garner	58	259	20.98	50.85	2.48	4.47
16	R.Lindwall	61	228	23.03	59.87	2.31	3.74
17	Waqar Younis	87	373	23.56	43.50	3.25	4.29
18	M.Holding	60	249	23.69	50.92	2.79	4.15
19	A.Davidson	44	186	20.53	62.30	1.98	4.23
20	S.Pollock	108	421	23.12	57.85	2.40	3.90
21	H.Verity	40	144	24.38	77.59	1.88	3.60
22	C. Walsh	132	519	24.44	57.84	2.54	3.93
23	* P.Cummins	62	269	22.54	46.89	2.88	4.34
24	J. Laker	46	193	21.25	62.32	2.05	4.20
25	*J.Anderson	187	700	26.53	56.97	2.79	3.74
26	*R.Ashwin	100	516	23.65	50.65	2.80	5.16
27	C.Grimmett	37	216	24.22	67.19	2.16	5.84
28	A.Roberts	47	202	25.61	55.12	2.79	4.30
29	*K.Rabada	62	291	22.06	39.23	3.37	4.69
30=	H.Tayfield	37	170	25.91	79.81	1.95	4.59
30=	*J.Bumrah	36	159	20.70	45.17	2.75	4.42
32	N.Adcock	26	104	21.11	61.45	2.06	4.00
33	A.Bedser	51	236	24.90	67.45	2.11	4.65
34	L.Gibbs	79	309	29.09	87.75	1.99	3.91
35	B.Statham	70	252	24.85	63.71	2.34	3.60
36	D.Underwood	86	297	25.84	73.61	2.11	3.45
37	*R.Jadeja	72	294	24.08	58.45	2.47	4.08
38	K. Miller	55	170	22.98	61.54	2.24	3.09
39	B. Willis	90	325	25.20	53.41	2.83	3.61
40	A. Kumble	132	619	29.65	65.99	2.70	4.69
41	V.Philander	64	224	22.32	50.85	2.63	3.50
42	I.Botham	102	383	28.40	56.96	2.99	3.75
43=	I. Bishop	43	161	24.29	52.59	2.77	3.74
43=	*N.Lyon	129	530	30.28	61.80	2.93	4.10
45=	Shoaib Akhtar	46	178	25.70	45.75	3.37	3.87
45=	Kapil Dev	131	434	29.65	63.92	2.78	3.31
47	W.Hall	48	192	26.39	54.28	2.92	4.00
48	J.Snow	49	202	26.67	59.51	2.68	4.12
49=	S. Broad	142	537	27.81	56.94	2.93	3.53
49=	H. Larwood	21	78	28.36	63.71	2.67	3.71