Cricket : Great Bowlers

David Frith and Peter West review bowlers covering period 1850-1987.

[@greymorris9006]

DK (Dennis Keith) Lillee was the greatest. He could bowl on a road, hard mud or a green top with skill and knowledge. Any era, any wicket, any batsman, DK was very special.

[@stevebrindle1724]

This Englishman agrees 100%! Dennis was the father of modern fast balling, working out ways of getting individual batsmen out by analyzing their weaknesses,

[@PimlicoSteve]

Gold dust - brilliant rare footage here. Thanks for posting.

[@rayanthonyjohnhuybertsz6735]

The late Malcom Marshall was the, and still is the greatest of the fast bowlers

[@johnfisher4872]

Going by strike rates one could see Dale Steyn and Waqar as among the greatest. Currently Rabada has a strike rate even better than them.

[@ashokrao2377]

Rip marshall

[@dupreemottley7320]

Yup Marshall is the king

[@AlexMay-n1g]

I couldn't separate Marshall or Lillee as the GOAT

[@talhanaeem4364]

In this list Imran, Hadlee & Marshall.

[@rameezrather5385]

i had only either read about or heard d names of legends shown in this video. Grimmet, Len hutton, Laker ,Harvey ... Cricket must have been beautiful those days.

[@Montecristo1805]

RIP Malcolm Marshall by far the best I have seen; and I have seen quite a few.

[@leonaustin6993]

Hadlee was the best!

[@arupchattopadhyay7035]

Warne and Lillie

[@markfullager9311]

I am an Englishman through and through, can't stand the Aussies but the best bowler ever, even though it is after this was made, is clearly Shane Warne. By a country mile

[@colinmorrison5119]

Fascinating archival footage. I W Johnson (16:58) of Australia has an action that brings a whole new context to the disgraceful treatment of Muralitharan in Australia. He has the same bent arm action, but I don't believe he has the congenital inability to straighten the arm Murali had.

[@dennispicone6801]

Great show. Just a pity about the year of ending, when you consider the amount of champion bowlers who have their names up on honour boards. Still a classic show. ❤😊😂

[@rahulbuddhadev8976]

Wonderful , please if possible upload the pbs documentary ENGLAND'S GREATEST CRICKETERS narrated by Fred Truman

[@TheAmbushers]

Omar Gul was ummsaid's fastest bowler.

[@troglodite30]

Sandra Kap..Ian Johnson was actually an off spinner, not a leggy! And it was the English batsman Bill Edrich who said he was a 'chucker'..With no evidence to support the accusation!..Edrich, in his book said his feelings about chuckers were 'violent' and he accused a lot of bowlers of it!..Tony lock and Loader of Surrey plus quite a few others copped it!..But as for putting Ian Johnson in this list..Your right, he shouldn't be there!..But neither should many of the old time bowlers either..They'd be belted out of the park bowling their donkey drops!

[@markfullager9311]

No evidence to support that Ian Johnson was a chucker but look at the tape of him again and then decide

[@smeringtonweeps2717]

Lovely Stuff

[@srinivasnistala9226]

What about Kapil Dev ?

[@jahno7154]

Ridiculous Kapil Dev is not on this video ! all those wickets on unresponsive pitches in India absolute disgrace.

[@markfullager9311]

@@jahno7154 Which bit of the video did you fall asleep in to not see Kapil Dev?

[@newconsys]

Muthaya Muralidharan, Shane Warne, Anil Kumble, Wakar Yunus ???????????

[@mizofan]

this is up to the mid 80s

[@colinmorrison5119]

It's a bit of a nonsense that they lumped Hadlee in with the medium pacers but Kapil Dev, Dilley and Fraser in with the quicks. All were fast medium. It's remarkable that many of the greatest Test wicket takers hadn't even begun playing yet when this was made. No Muralitharan, Warne, Anderson, Broad, McGrath, Kumble, S Pollock, Steyn, Waqar Younis, Alan Donald... The archive footage of bowlers was fascinating. More than once, I thought, "That's Murali!", "That's Thommo!", "That's xyz!", but no, it was a player from decades before.

[@paulwoolerton664]

Harold Larwood greatest ever.

[@mizofan]

well short

[@jahno7154]

@@mizofan He didn't need to be tall !

[@vratysanu]

Sydney Barnes.

[@Bails77]

17.55 it's not jake it's jack.....

[@sentimentalbloke185]

Jake was a nickname.

[@johnclark9437]

The ball from Doug Wright to Hassett at 16:00 is as good as any ever bowled.

[@colinmorrison5119]

Reminiscent of Warne's famous ball to Gatting. It didn't turn as much, but was a lot quicker.

[@ganjidilu7427]

I m 90s kid in my view Wasim ambrose McGrath were the greatest

[@adwait73]

Nobody came closer to Wasim Akram. He is the topmost paceman ever

[@dennispicone6801]

You might have to have a night at the bar with a few Aussie, West Indian and South Africans to sought that one out.😂😂

[@jahno7154]

@@dennispicone6801 Nah I reckon Sarfraz Nawaz was the greatest in the world 2nd best Imran 3rd Waqar Wasim would be around 4th 5th Malcolm Marshall 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dennispicone6801]

@@jahno7154 no Australian, South African or Kiwi has been noted. No bias of course, on your behalf. Not even a Pom gets a mention. Time for morning drinks to have a think about this. 😁👍🍺🍺

[@jahno7154]

@@dennispicone6801 I was being sarcastic on behalf of @adwait saying Akram was streets ahead and one comes close. Too arrogant for me. My favourite fast bowler is Dennis Lillie but he wasn't streets ahead of the rest.

[@anirbanbhattacharya7214]

I rejected this, kapil , imral all time great as they bowled in India and Pakistan most of the time, lily , akram and marshal are OK but others even Hadley is not comparable with kapil and imran as subcontinent never support pace rather spin, so it is a fake video.

[@alangeorgebarstow]

It is a completely fatuous and subjective exercise in choosing or selecting 'the greatest ever' in any endeavour. Calling bowler 'A' as being 'better' than bowler 'B' is utterly futile. Larwood was not 'better' than Lindwall; Trueman was not 'better' than Hall; Akram was not 'better' than Dev; Roberts was not 'better' than Lillee; Steyn was not 'better' than 'Hadlee; McGrath was not 'better' than Constantine, and so on. There have been many wonderfully skilled bowlers over the past two centuries and to list them in an order of 'greatness' is nothing more than a silly and pointless waste of time. Just accept them all as being at the top of their game for the time that they played.

[@davifdavid4347]

Well said.Clearly intelligence and reason applied here.

[@mizofan]

Tribe, excellent career but failed in his only test series, v England. Nadkarni v England: 32-27-5-0 and bowled a record twenty one consecutive maiden overs (131 dot balls in a row) in a 114-minute bowling spell. Shaw, Appleyard and Tate are among unsung names these days worth checking out.

[@allmatters1615]

Lindwall larwood and cotter the greatest ever bowlers

[@sambitmukherjee6690]

Roberts all the way!

[@scatologywithjezandjobbie2678]

Thompson

[@davifdavid4347]

Mr Frith appears with a crash helmet on before,once again, having a go at the W I.And yet,47 years after the emergence of the greatest fast bowling attack ever seen, I have not come across a single fan of cricket from any part of the world with a negative word to say.The problem with the Australian is that he is of British decent.The one thing everybody can agree on is that ,like the British,the English,in particular, is that they can't bear to see their teams getting destroyed. Frith has written many articles and has had much to say on the question of W I murder bowling,but has never written any articles attacking Lillee and Thomson for what they dished out to the W I From October 75 to February 76.If he has verbally attacked his own countrymen, in writing, would those in the know forward the details to me. In the words of the godfather of the W I attack, Andy Roberts,if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Complaining about the ass whipping your countrymen took,after the fact,just makes you look like whinging Matildas

[@Timberwolf1992]

Marshall, Hadlee, Akram, O Reilly, Davidson.

[@ashtongoorachan5168]

Great and enjoyable video. Hats off to the producers. So many great bowlers!!My choice is Malcolm Marshall. The best of the best.

[@imransinput7928]

My number one is Shoaib Akhtar

[@jahno7154]

He's no way near as good a Pakistan bowler as Imran Waqar Wasim even Sarfraz at fast medium. Shoaib relied on a hypertension elbow in is bowling arm to bowl at extreme pace.

[@juanestadian8471]

David frith really hates the WI and Pakistan. There has never been a more thrilling sight in test cricket that the 4 pronged nuclear warhead. Which is why despite the fact that their teams were being beaten badly, people all over the world turned out in droves to watch tge West Indies play. He hates Pakistan too. Describing Safraz nawaz as akward and ill tempered? What is with the personal attacks man?

[@aboriginalbrotha9947]

Great stuff!!!!

[@aamirkhan1846]

NO Imran khan.....

[@BongSau83]

Imran is in there at 59:00

[@Gaziselim5725]

no waqar younis and shoaib akhtar. 😲

[@ednan9]

+Ghazi Saleem this is up until 1983. No Shane warne either

[@irrationalgeographic9953]

Lumpy Stevens, greatest bowlers name of all time.

[@boxingjerapah]

DK Lillee #`1

[@OrbvsTomarvm]

i had all wrist spin variations with either hand.

[@squirrelpatrick3670]

wow! this is amazing. never thought I'd see footage of some of these guys.

[@shaq56uspk]

Michael Holden is the best.

[@Darrenj195]

Hadlee, medium pace?

[@javeedthewellnesscoach7091]

They missed waqar younis debuted in 1989

[@dlamiss]

probably because this film finished in 87

[@juanestadian8471]

Also......describing Colin Croft as a clumsy giant.......Croft is an engineer with a commercial pilot license......i disagree with him frequently but clumsy is certainly not how i would describe him.

[@dennispicone6801]

Willis wasn't the best or fastest of his generation, but most patriotic. 😊😂

[@sreenathjohnsonsaysnotolgbtq]

DK Lillee

[@thechamp5201]

Marshall, Lilly, Akram, McGrath, Hadley Warne......

[@nyosito]

Amazing to see the video footage of that famous dismissal of Inverarity LBW to Underwood at 28:49. In colour also! I'd always wondered how he'd been given out LBW when he was standing almost 2 feet outside the off stump.

[@rahuljaiswa]

Ian Botham is not an happy man

[@tonylove4800]

I have always been fascinated by the Indian fab four. I know three of them sometimes played together in the same test team. Did all four ever play together? BTW, no wonder Locke had to keep modifying his action.

[@mudassirgreat]

What a joke. Where is Fazal Mahmood of Pakistan who took 10fers against all oppositions he played in his time in the 50s & 60s. The first to 100 test wickets for Pakistan.

[@JulianDiaz-Tpt]

It’s up to the mid 80’s.

[@markfullager9311]

Fazal Mahmood is mentioned

[@johnclark9437]

He is at 39:00, with some footage.

[@mudassirgreat]

​@@johnclark9437 Yeah got it. Thanks 👍

[@kiranchandy9]

Hooray, the whities!