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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Allan Donald on the most intimidating bowlers he has seen: this time, Glenn McGrath, the most relentless bowler.
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To have an average of 21 in test cricket, as boundaries were becoming smaller, bats larger, rules friendlier for batsmen and pitches becoming roads....this guy was a champion bowler in any conditions. Clocked at 148kph as a youngster; he, like Sir Richard Hadlee (although Hadlee still bowled at around 140 kmh off the short run too) slowed down and became a truly great bowler.
I watched him in tests against England , his accuracy was astonishing !
Alan Donald is very generous in his praise of other bowlers. Don't forget that Donald very nearly matched McGrath's average, had better wickets per innings - and had a much better strike rate.
Humble man is Alan.
Top 15 Greatest Pacer of All Time
1 Sydney Barnes
2 Dennis Lillee
3 Wasim Akram
4 Malcolm Marshall
5 Fred Trueman
6 George Lohmann
7 Glenn Mcgrath
8 Ray Lindwall
9 Richard Hadlee
10 Fred Spofforth
11 Curtly Ambrose
12 Dale Steyn
13 Imran Khan
14 Alan Davidson
15 Tom Richardson
Honourable Mentions:
( Michael Holding , Harold Larwood , Joel Garner , Waqar Younis , Allan Donald )
McGrath can walk into any test playing cricketing side, no matter which era.
Kannadiga here. I wud have another bowler in my side replacing Glenn McGrath
but only thing is there were some bowlers who were better than mcgrath . Plus a big reason of mcgraths figures and career was also how australia used him. Till age of 29 he wasn't still intimidating or established himself as premium bowler for aussies. It was from around 1999 that he did and dominace of aussie team as a whole on opponent played a big role.
If mcgrath was playing for subcontinent team how successful would he be? I am not sure. That is why i will always rate akram and marshall as better bowlers than mcgrath because of diverse skillset. Also in modern cricket with batting pitches and flat decks and where batsman can improvise so much , I am definitely picking those two over mcgrath. I feel just line and length isn't good enough to be the best
@@sohelbashar6925 McGrath was already firmly established as our best fast bowler well before 1999. He was the pace attack spearhead pretty much from 1995 onwards. His record on the subcontinent isn't exactly poor either, he did better than most, but I would agree on dusty pitches that are not seaming he was less threatening. Jason Gillespie was actually our most effective bowler in India and Kasprowicz did OK as well.
The best line: It was a show😘. My goodness ,Donald can tell a cricket story
Alan had finest cricketing mind. A bowler with immense skills; sharp and deceptive.
He is a Rahul Dravid of bowling 😒
Saala thakta hi nahi 😥😥😥
And in fact, Dravid said he was best he ever faced...
McGrath was the best against the best batsman. He would always get wickets in big moments. No one wanted to face him
If McGrath was a fast bowler, he would've got 4-5 wickets in every match!
he did...do the math...
At 04:30 Thomson does not belong to that level. Lillee, Lindwall and McGrath are on the highest level of Aussie fast bowlers
Thommo before that shoulder and even till 1979 was as good and lethal as any.....He picked his wickets at 23 a piece before that shoulder considering that he has to share his wicket with arguably greatest aussie paceman ever in Lillee...,,,,Anyway even Roadney Hogg was very exciting when he first started deceptively quick too picked 40 wickets in 6 games againsy very good Pommie side...Aussies missed the ball by not playing Hogg and Pascoe early definately 250 test wicket bowlers atleast considering even Merv Hughe and Mcdermot did that...yard quicker than both of them
Great bowler...played against him a few times.
The thing is, he is a top bloke too. On the pitch, relentless; off the pitch, genuinely great guy. 👊🏾🏏
Woah. Did you say you played Glenn McGrath bowling? Wow.
Pigeon used to shit on batsmen. Every batsmen was his victim
I dont see whats so amazing about McGrath because pollock had very similar numbers to him in terms of strike rate and average. Just that McGrath bowled in a lot more tests
There is more to cricket than numbers. McGrath was a phenomenonal wicket-taking bowler who got a high percentage of top order wickets and the best batsmen out. He is an ATG.
Shaun Pollock had 2 careers. He was a great incisive bowler uptill 2001. After injury and a profound loss of pace, he became a very accurate but defensive bowler. Rarely did he run through sides, although he is rightly regarded as a very fine bowler and a great bowling all-rounder.
@@TheAdventurer1988 the only reason McGrath ran through wickets was that his batsman piled up the runs and allowed him half a dozen slips and all he had to do was put it outside off and voila wicket wicket and wicket. He was never someone like steyn or Marshall or wasim or waqar who could rip you out if you were all set. He was a scavenger who not a hunter. If McGrath played in the west Indian team for example no way would he have averaged what he did. He didn't have it to intimidate batsman. And as for pollock not being able to rip out batsman he was pretty much in the same mold as McGrath so whatever u think of pollock ditto for McGrath. Their averages and strike rates pretty much same.
@@sanjayhariparsad4083 Fair points. Your first does not hold true if Australia bowls first and McGrath picks up top order wickets, which he regularly did. It is true that scoreboard pressure helps bowlers when they come on to bowl.
The perception of McGrath not being able to rip people out is due to his relative lack of pace. A Waqar inswinger uprooting a set batsman's off stump makes an indelible impression. McGrath's method was to attack the off stump, bowl cutters and use angle and bounce. He has dismissed plenty of set batsmen in his time.
One can be incisive without being very quick. Pollock 95-'01 was. Pollock of '01 to his retirement was not. Look at his figures in the two periods, especially strike rate to check how he had lost his firepower. Ntini was the spearhead and later Steyn. Aus never had or needed another spearhead as long as McGrath played!
@@TheAdventurer1988 they had a more effective wicket taker. One Shane warne. Promise u a lot of McGrath wickets is owed to Shane Warne and he had Gillespie and Lee... so with a complete batting and a.very formidable bowling lineup, scoreboard pressure was inevitable. An opening bowler in aussie condition where it seemed with a new cherry is going to pick up wickets if he bowls the right length and line. And yes its unfortunate pollock was injured but he was still effective
@@sanjayhariparsad4083 yes bowlers tend to feed off each other. Great bowlers especially hunt in pairs or packs like the West Indians. It is interesting in the McGrath-Warne combination that the paceman got a lot of top order wickets. You could say he created the pressure upfront. Warne, a truly brilliant bowler undoubtedly, benefited due to this and picked up plenty of lower-order wickets. This brings me back to my point- McGrath along with Ambrose was probably the most penetrative fast bowler of his generation. Superior to Polly in that regard by a decent but not huge margin.