My XI: Boycott picks his favourite bowlers

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  • Sydney Barnes: ‘Probably the greatest bowler of all time’
  • Harold Larwood: ‘The sole reason England won the bodyline series’
  • Fred Trueman: ‘A big heart, strong, always fun’
  • Derek Underwood: ‘On wet pitches deadly was his name’
  • Dennis Lillee: ‘The tearaway who turned craftsman’
  • Richard Hadlee: ‘The best of the corridor bowlers’
  • Joel Garner: ‘No one hit Joel’
  • Michael Holding: ‘The fastest, and then some’

Who will be the other 3 bowlers in his all-time pick?
probably: Malcolm Marshall, Warne and Wasim, perhaps even Ambrose!!

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His list is obviously biased for people he played with. I definitely expect to see Marshal in the list. Not sure who would be other 2. Contenders are Imran, Warne, Murali, Waseem, Mcgrath etc

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and no sign of javagal srinath or venkatesh prasad? what a n00b. :snooty:

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Why Tendulkars missing?

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you have a weird sense of humour.

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we have similar names..

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and no sign of javagal srinath or venkatesh prasad? what a n00b

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There goes any chance of Jeffery doing any commentating contract for IPL.

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Well it's a list of bowlers, what were you expecting?! ;) A biased list of bowlers, but still.

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Bedi, Chandrasekhar and Prasanna round up the list.

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LOL

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You don’t like Ajit Agarkar or Ashish Nehra? :eek:

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Now Captain is making things difficult - too many options, not enough slots. Maybe we can bump off Underwood, the wet track bully?

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What about Andy Roberts, Marshall, Imran, Wasim, Waqar, McGrath, Murali, Hadlee ?

The only Indian bowler who could make the list is Kapil Dev.

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I donot think Kapil is in the same league. Only realistic chance in TOP10 would be Kumble but he can not be in top3.

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Give or take, aside from the bowlers that Boycott has mentioned, the following bowlers are in the same league IMO

**Pacers:
**Malcolm Marshall (the greatest IMO)
Imran Khan
Andy Roberts
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Alan Donald
Glen McGrath
Curtley Ambrose
Courtney Walsh (probably)
Dale Steyn (probably)
Graeme Pollock (probably)
Kapil Dev (probably)

**Spinners:
**Warne
Murali
Kumble

Remember we are selecting greats from greats. None of them is hugely better than the other. It just comes down to personal choice or opinion

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What about Abdul Qadir, Mushtaq Ahmed and Saqlain Mushtaq?

And in Pacers, what about Fazal Mehmood or Sarfaraz Nawaz?

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I have mainly considered bowlers with 300+ test wickets (Steyn should get there soon)

Fazal Mahmood (never saw him play but I am a big fan of his. have heard + read many wonderful stories about him, a great & humble human-being) and Qadir were great bowlers for sure.

Saqlain was a better bowler in ODIs.

Sarfraz very good but not quite in the same league as Imran, Wasim or Waqar

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#9 **Malcolm Marshall - Quick skiddy and unbelievable

**Boycott on Marshall: lightning fast and perhaps the greatest of all the quick bowlers

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