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Best current genuine quick? [9 vote(s)]

Brett Lee
22.2%
Makhaya Ntini
22.2%
Shoaib Akhtar
0.0%
Steve Harmison
11.1%
Andrew Flintoff
0.0%
Shane Bond
11.1%
Lasith Malinga
22.2%
Someone else (please specify your choice)
11.1%
El Presidente


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Shoaib Akhtar, Makhaya Ntini, Brett Lee, Steve Harmison. Who would in your opinion be the most frightening prospect to face in the middle?

Ntini is class, Akhtar and Harmison erratic, but the one I'd be most worried about is Lee. I haven't really seen enough of Malinga or Shane Bond and although Flintoff is good, don't think he's quite as nippy. Having hit a world class batsman like Andrew Strauss with two absolute helmet clangers - check this and this for 2 good reasons why I don't fancy facing him.

 

Anyone else?



-- Edited by El Presidente at 15:33, 2007-01-21

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It may just be Lee ... at the moment.

But your list indicates the lack of a real legend of pace in the game at the moment. At his best Harmison could be up there. But he's not at his best right now is he?

 



-- Edited by Golcar CC at 19:11, 2007-01-21

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Golcar CC wrote:

 

It may just Lee ... at the moment.

But your list indicates the lack of a real legend of pace in the game at the moment.

 
I still wouldn't want to face any of them. It's bad enough having to dodge stray Dan Ryan left arm beamers in the net, let alone cop a face full of leather from the likes of Ntini or Lee.

 



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Lee gets my vote, but only for one-dayers. Ntini in tests at the moment, shortly to be pipped by Akhtar when he's warmed up.

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Malinga get's my vote. With his un-orthadox bowling action and the pure pace he can achieve with it, combined with nobody knowing where the missile will go surely makes him one of the hardest bowlers to play.

Brett Lee, me thinks, is the better bowler, but I reckon he's a little easier to judge than the rocket from Sri Lanka. Having said that, facing either would definately require my "brown pants"... 



-- Edited by El Treasurorio at 11:27, 2007-01-22

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Yeh he is a little unorthodox but to quote Tony Cozier

 

God Couldn't play that ball 



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El Presidente wrote:

Yeh he is a little unorthodox but to quote Tony Cozier

 

God Couldn't play that ball


 That's a terrifying spell. Ball from somewhere outside of rationality to the off stump in a little over a breath. I'd've run away. 



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brazo de natillas wrote:
El Presidente wrote:

Yeh he is a little unorthodox but to quote Tony Cozier

 

God Couldn't play that ball


That's a terrifying spell. Ball from somewhere outside of rationality to the off stump in a little over a breath. I'd've run away.

Having had a bit more of a look at this guy, I'm inclined to think

Bloody hell, how do you play this stuff? 

I like the way the commentator rather understates a ball that has just removed off stump by saying very calmly that it "was quite a useful delivery" 

 



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Harmison is clearly the best of the bowlers when bowling to a slips cordon. I see no one has mentioned Sluggard!

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scottoz99 wrote:
Harmison is clearly the best of the bowlers when bowling to a slips cordon. I see no one has mentioned Sluggard!

I like Hoggard a lot, but he clearly isn't genuinely quick. Simon Jones might have made the list if he wasn't always off injured. I'm a bit surprised no one has voted for Shoaib Akhtar so far. I voted for Lee but the more clips I see, the more frightening Slinga Malinga looks. Lee's clearly a better bowler, but I would have kittens facing Malinga.

 

 

 



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how would u know what a good bowler looks like. Normally u r standing at square leg as the bowler lets rip at u.

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scottoz99 wrote:
how would u know what a good bowler looks like. Normally u r standing at square leg as the bowler lets rip at u.

I have a mirror. It tells me all I need to know.

 



-- Edited by El Presidente at 13:41, 2007-01-23

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