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Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:25 amby Dr Cricket
Team of the decade pick your 3 fast bowlers.
Probably go for steyn, Anderson and rabada but very tough to pick, been a decade of fast bowling really.
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:30 amby Gingerfinch
Obviously Steyn and Jimmy. Went for Broad as well. Nearly 400 wickets, and perhaps the best spell of the decade.
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:35 amby bigfluffylemon
Jimmy and Steyn as well.
Third pick is harder. Best spell of the decade (Broad?). Best series (Johnson)? Most consistent (Philander, probably). Cummins has been bloody phenomenal the last two years, why isn't he on the shortlist?
I went Philander for my third pick.
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:20 pmby DiligentDefence
More genuine contenders in this batch. Eventually went for Steyn, Anderson and Philander.
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Thu Dec 19, 2019 12:08 amby Alviro Patterson
Extremely tough decision but went for Broad, Steyn and Boult
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Thu Dec 19, 2019 7:20 amby The Professor
Steyn, Philander and Johnson
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:23 pmby Arthur Crabtree
Who would you like to face the least- Mitch1.
Anderson would be a cert if playing in the UK, but that's the problem. You might say the same about Mitch1 in Australia, but he gets a special pass because of how lethal he was in the Mitchwash. He was like a West Indies bowler of the 70/80s.
Steyn is an all time great.
I think my other pick might be Asif, but he's not there. So I'll go for the underrated Big Vern.
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:35 pmby Arthur Crabtree
Arthur Crabtree wrote:
I think my other pick might be Asif, but he's not there. So I'll go for the underrated Big Vern.
Actually, would have gone for Ryan Harris.
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:43 pmby bigfluffylemon
Arthur Crabtree wrote:
I think my other pick might be Asif, but he's not there.
Probably because his career this decade lasted until August 2010 (7 tests), at which point he was banned for cheating...
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:49 pmby Arthur Crabtree
Feels more recent than that! I've flitted off onto Ryano anyway...
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:11 pmby Durhamfootman
Gingerfinch wrote:Obviously Steyn and Jimmy. Went for Broad as well. Nearly 400 wickets, and perhaps the best spell of the decade.
Obviously Steyn and Santiago, but for the brutal way he utterly dismantled England in 2013/14 I went with the Tash. Mercurial he may have been, but if that player of the series performance wasn't the finest spell of fast bowling in decades, maybe even ever, then I'll eat my hat
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Sun Dec 22, 2019 5:34 pmby meninblue
Steyn, Jimmy and Starc.
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Wed Dec 25, 2019 12:42 amby Arthur Crabtree
The team going by averages.
Warner
Cook
Sangakkara
Smith
Kallis
Chanderpaul
Watling
Jadeja
Philander
Cummins
Steyn
Minimum 2000 runs/100 wickets.
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Wed Dec 25, 2019 8:52 pmby ianp1970
Was Kallis in the selection choices?
Re: Team of the decade fast bowlers.
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Wed Dec 25, 2019 11:41 pmby Arthur Crabtree
No.