Best Australian Test Quicks This Century

[Jimthegreat]

McGrath
Harris
Johnson

How good would Johnson be coming in after the pressure of those two blokes opening the bowling.

 

[Jimthegreat]

Had he not pulled that shit in the Ashes - bullshitting about his fitness meant he was never going to get a decent run again.

Before that Test his average was 23. He really stuffed things in that Test and didn't play again. He was way out of shape. He was a damn good bowler when he was fit and firing.

 

[Gough]

Not in the time frame, but a bloke I loved watching bowl. Tool 42 wickets in 89, and could have had 120 if DRS had been around:

Went a long way to costing us the 1985 Ashes when he chose Newlands over Lords. Look what Richard Ellison did to us and Tel was better than that.

 

[Hellgood]

ha ha.
Brad has me covered. Scott Muller maybe not so.

I've never been able to understand the derision Muller got.

Bowled ok from the highlights and statistics of his couple of tests.

 

[The 747]

Before that Test his average was 23. He really stuffed things in that Test and didn't play again. He was way out of shape. He was a damn good bowler when he was fit and firing.

I get the impression Dougie is not the sharpest tool in the shed and maybe some people whispered things in his ear - but in any event it was a career suicide mission. IIRC the captain even singled him out in the press conference after we lost. Had he just waited until he was fit, he perhaps could have had a decent career.

 

[Ohitsthatguy]

Confirmed you barely bowl and a batsmen. ha ha

Hope you make a hundred today or do not drop swing bowlers edge to slips.

Are you serious? Starc bowls 50% tripe. To think he has the same control as Hazlewood or Cummins is the biggest laugh going around. Yeah when he gets it right there's no one better but he's still inconsistent. To think he has so much control because he occasionally bowls the inswinging yorker is idiotic.

Also Harris is underrated as ****. Easily one of our best ever, if only his body allowed him to play more

 

[footyfan1978]

Are you serious? Starc bowls 50% tripe

Do not worry about when I am serious. Worry about your tripe post. Do you post 50% tripe, like that post or more?

 

[Ohitsthatguy]

Do not worry about when I am serious. Worry about your tripe post. Do you post 50% tripe, like that post or more?

I'm not worried, you're a deadshit and everyone knows it.

 

[DaRick]

RE the Bollinger thing, my impression was that he was managed very poorly by the selectors, to the point where he lost fitness.

Although I prefer not to remember the period due to the abysmal management, desperate captaincy, poor coaching and selectorial atrocities that were foisted upon the Australian team at that time (with attendant gross underpeformance), from memory Bollinger was told to play a T20 game in South Africa instead of FC cricket, then told to prove his fitness in FC cricket, then yanked out of a Shield game after one innings, then selected for the Adelaide Test, with predictable results.

It was simply more expedient for Ricky Ponting to throw Bollinger under the bus than the selectors at that point, since Bollinger was always going to get dropped after that performance anyway.

That being said, I felt Bollinger's attitude towards fitness was never the best.

 

[footyfan1978]

I'm not worried, you're a deadshit and everyone knows it.

So you are 100% tripe and cannot handle being questioned. Got it mentally soft guy.

 

[footyfan1978]

Went a long way to costing us the 1985 Ashes when he chose Newlands over Lords. Look what Richard Ellison did to us and Tel was better than that.

Got us back the Ashes in 89. ****ing legend of outswing bowler was Clem in those conditions.

 

[The 747]

RE the Bollinger thing, my impression was that he was managed very poorly by the selectors, to the point where he lost fitness.

Although I prefer not to remember the period due to the abysmal management, desperate captaincy, poor coaching and selectorial atrocities that were foisted upon the Australian team at that time (with attendant gross underpeformance), from memory Bollinger was told to play a T20 game in South Africa instead of FC cricket, then told to prove his fitness in FC cricket, then yanked out of a Shield game after one innings, then selected for the Adelaide Test, with predictable results.

It was simply more expedient for Ricky Ponting to throw Bollinger under the bus than the selectors at that point, since Bollinger was always going to get dropped after that performance anyway.

That being said, I felt Bollinger's attitude towards fitness was never the best.

Don't disagree but the thing was that Bollinger declared he was fit when he wasn't, then went out and let the team down.

 

[eth-dog]

Hard to say who the best was, they all brought unique things to the table. Personally would have an attack of Harris, McGrath and Johnson (considered Lee but the left arm brings something different to the table)

 

[iluvparis]

Geez, you got no idea. Clearly not much of a bowler yourself if ever played cricket at all, to not even recognise skill in front of your eyes. Starc swingers takes a lot of skill to pull off. Not many can do it that good like first ball of spell the other day to start the end of the Poms.

On the contrary - the fact you have Starc above MJ on your lists suggests it is you that has no idea. Further supported by the fact you have no doubt that Thommo could bowl in the 170s! lel

 

[footyfan1978]

On the contrary - the fact you have Starc above MJ on your lists suggests it is you that has no idea. Further supported by the fact you have no doubt that Thommo could bowl in the 170s! lel

When you learn to know what you talking about with regards to bowling, let me know.

 

[iluvparis]

When you learn to know what you talking about with regards to bowling, let me know.

 

[Rockstar6]

I'm in the McGrath, Harris and Johnson camp.

 

[Lebbo73]

The inswinger to Amla
The Steyn/Morkel combo

Who didn't love Ryno!

 

[FredLeDeux]

You see at least one better bowler than Lee in pretty much every Test match played these days

There are 6 of them playing in this match.

 

[Cold Sober]

The big RYNO, heart the size of four cricket grounds and enough shit in him to be THE MAN.
Johnson / Starc as consistent as each other, on their day unplayable.
Cummins / Pattinson big guns ready to fire.

 

[eth-dog]

Brett Lee will go down as Australia's most underrated fast bowler. According to so many he's terrible. He took over 300 wickets in test cricket, but the way he's talked about here you'd think he took 50 wickets at 45.

 

[Power Raid]

harris, mcgrath and johnson would be some line up

 

[TBoyleSuperstar]

I'd go McGrath, Gillespie, Harris.
Johnson, lee, study Clark next

 

[PAFC_1870]

McGrath and Gillespie. The rest won't matter with them two.

Dizzy was hugely unlucky too, but I also believed that helped McGrath on the other end.

Lee for a difference as the third.

That way you've got accuracy, swing and speed.

 

[Doss]

I think I saw somewhere that Gillespie took 20 wickets or more in a series either once or never. A curious stat for someone who was such a good bowler.