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Originally Posted by K Jay I get your point about intimadatory bowling in the past but I dont think the great pakistani fasts used it all that much. Wasim, Imran and Younis I think have/had the same qualities as McGrath in that they were consistant line and length merchants even if the pakistanis in general bowl fuller deliveries. Whilst McGrath is special I think any bowler is reliant on having other bowlers in the team with different complementary styles to bring out their best, hence why Lee, McGrath and Warne have been such a force inthe last decade. |
Excellent counter KJ. None of those I mentioned bowled a lot of bouncers. Ambrose is the only exception there but he was still successful after the amount of bouncers were lessened. Trueman and Marshall were pacy but skiddy bowlers, sure they could bowl in an intimidatory manner, but are you telling us Eric that McGrath never does bowl like that. Hadlee, Wasim, Imran none of those guys were intimidatory bowlers either.
Courtney Walsh is a good call as well, I only left him off since I'd put Ambrose (his partner) in already who I believed was the ever so marginally better bowler.