Best bowlers to watch

[PhatBoy]

Just watching Rabada bowl.

I didn’t get to watch Holding live but obviously I’ve seen footage and he was poetry.

But f**k Rabada is just beautiful to watch when he is in full flight.

Just made me thing who else looked aesthetically good when they bowled?

Warne not just for how good he bowled but his actual action was lovely. Very rhythmical when he was at his peak.

Anderson by the time he hit his peak was so at ease with what he was doing was just languid and very comfortable.

He cops so much shit but I think Mitchell Starc has a beautiful action - Trent Boult also; maybe it’s the lefty thing.

There’s a lot of guys who had lovely actions that were great to watch but the pace they bowled ‘matched’ the effort they were putting in if that makes sense, so for example Donald and Steyn both had beautiful actions but they both charged in and their arms were very quick and the ball speed matched the effort.


Gillespie is another bowler I thought who looked graceful and rhythmical at the crease and Alzarri Joseph has a lot of the same characteristics.

But yeah if I had to choose a bowler to… well, put in a porno it would be Rabada

 

[Plugger35]

Holding, Hadlee, Kapil Dev, Imran Khan, Philander, they were poetry in motion that could make the ball talk with seam and swing.

 

[PhatBoy]

Holding, Hadlee, Kapil Dev, Imran Khan, Philander, they were poetry in motion that could make the ball talk with seam and swing.

Philander very good call, obviously wasn’t quick anyway so wasn’t pace related but just ambled in and put it wherever the hell he wanted to. The others were all pretty graceful too to be fair but yeah definitely something about philander seemed incredibly economical and just ‘get to the crease and roll the arm over’

 

[Plugger35]

Malcolm Marshall was arguably the best bowler of the lot, he could seam and swing it at express pace but struggled to get a start.

He had to battle with Roberts, Holding, Croft and Garner just to get a start in the West Indies bowling line up, tough competition.

 

[PhatBoy]

Malcolm Marshall was arguably the best bowler of the lot, he could seam and swing it at express pace but struggled to get a start.

He had to battle with Roberts, Holding, Croft and Garner just to get a start in the West Indies bowling line up, tough competition.

His angled run up rubs me the wrong way for some reason

 

[Aussie_boy]

Steyn
Starc when he has the white ball talking is great viewing.
Shaun Tait for pure excitement, Shoaib Akhtar the same.
Random one but I love watching Joel Paris on song.

 

[PhatBoy]

Steyn
Starc when he has the white ball talking is great viewing.
Shaun Tait for pure excitement, Shoaib Akhtar the same.
Random one but I love watching Joel Paris on song.

Actually must say shoaib’s action was spectacular

 

[Gethelred]

I have a lot of time for aesthetically pleasing spinners. There was something magical about watching Herath and Vettori bowl that was and is timeless to me; a mixture of master of craft and guile that allowed subtle variations to work.

If we're talking quicks, anyone who can get the ball to seem to leap off the pitch faster than it left the hand gets the blood going. There's not that many genuine quicks in the game at present; Mark Wood is about the only bloke who can consistently hit that 150km mark, and the only bloke who can get the thing flying through like that. I've seen footage of Holding bowl, and he's the exemplar of this sort of thing for me; the smooth fluent action, but the ball hitting the pitch and seemingly gathering pace.

The reason why Shamar Joseph was so brilliant that day in Brisbane is because he found something mercurial. Some blokes just have it in them to run through you. For that one spell, he got the ball to fly through faster than he ever had, and it was stunning to watch.

 

[Some Idiot]

It's been a while but Shane Warne is definitely up there, always seemed to be working the batsman over, felt like you were watching a magician as he problem solved how to get the batsman out

 

[Cmarsh]

Shane Bond on song could really make that ball move viciously.

 

[Pistol Night]

Day 5 Warne. Mitch Johnson at the WACA. Any English spinner when we're batting