Interesting Times Ahead - World A-Team Cricket Forum

greg · #1 (**permalink**) 11-10-2007, 08:57 AM

When you look around the sides in world cricket at the moment there are quite a few sides with young fast bowlers who have made a good impression in one day/20Twenty cricket who have yet to play much if any test cricket.

The likes of Mitchell Johnson,Stuart Broad,Morne Morkel and Sohail Tanvir have all shown they have ability and temperament and it is going to be very interesting to see which ones if any can transfer there good form in the shorter game into the test arena.

I think it is fairly obvious that Johnson will get a test match this Australian summer and Morkel would probably have played in Pakistan but for injury but when the other two are blooded is anyones guess as i can't see Broad being in the squad for the Sri Lanka tests and i don't know why Tanvir is being ignored (Maranello may be able to clear that one up).

We have seen some of the old guard go in McGrath and now Pollock has been dropped and it is about time we had some decent young pace bowlers come through,when you consider we already have Steyn,Asif and Sreesanth making a decent impression it gives us hope that there may be more competition between bat and ball like there was in the 80's and early 90's instead of the bat dominating like the last 10 years.

They all have a way to go but there is promise there,certainly more than there was say 5 years ago.

Rachael · 11-10-2007, 10:29 AM in reply to greg's post "Interesting Times Ahead"

The cricket ratings tend to favour folk with a high strike rate (and individuals with the game to bag 5-fors) much more highly than they value reliable workhorses whose pressure the other end so often goes unrewarded... so any decent "fast" bowler should shoot up them.

In practice... Ntini, Bond and Akhtar are standing out near the top of the pack... but it's the tried and trusted medium paced favourites that dominate: Pollock, Clark, Hoggardm Khan, Asif, Collymore and Vaas are all in to top 10 of seamers.. and the young fast bowling cadre are nowhere.

Not that you should be accusing the likes of Mitchell Johnson and Stuart Broad of being fast bowlers: Ern will be spitting feathers at the very notion

For what it's worth.. I'm backing the generation of Clark, Hoggard, Khan and co... perhaps including Bracken and Sidebottom... to dominate the ratings for a good few years: they are all entering their prime as seamers... and whilst I'm sure 2-3 youngsters (hopefully including guys you mention like Johnson and Broad, but also others like Hilfenhaus) may come through.... the only younger bowler who looks an absolutely certain success is Asif.

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1 M. Muralidaran SL 920 920 v Bangladesh, 11/07/2007 
2 M. Ntini SA 840 863 v India, 26/12/2006 
3 S.E. Bond NZ 722 778 v West Indies, 09/03/2006 
3 S.M. Pollock SA 722 909 v England, 25/11/1999 
5 S.R. Clark AUS 720 720 v England, 02/01/2007 
6 A. Kumble IND 702 859 v Sri Lanka, 26/01/1994 
7 M.J. Hoggard ENG 700 795 v Sri Lanka, 28/05/2006 
8 Shoaib Akhtar PAK 691 855 v New Zealand, 26/12/2003 
9 Zaheer Khan IND 678 678 v England, 09/08/2007 
10 Mohammad Asif PAK 677 710 v South Africa, 26/01/2007 
11 C.D. Collymore WI 673 700 v India, 02/07/2006 
12 W.P.U.J.C. Vaas SL 671 800 v India, 02/12/2005 
13 Danish Kaneria PAK 662 723 v England, 12/11/2005 
14 A. Flintoff ENG 660 810 v Pakistan, 12/11/2005 
15 M.S. Panesar ENG 652 721 v West Indies, 15/06/2007 
16 B. Lee AUS 644 658 v West Indies, 01/12/2000 
17 J.E.C. Franklin NZ 637 679 v Sri Lanka, 07/12/2006 
18 I.K. Pathan IND 600 761 v Sri Lanka, 10/12/2005 
19 D.L. Vettori NZ 598 681 v Australia, 11/03/2000 
20 Umar Gul PAK 597 627 v West Indies, 27/11/2006 
21 A. Nel SA 592 763 v Australia, 02/01/2006 
22 C.S. Martin NZ 585 643 v England, 24/05/2004 
23 S. Sreesanth IND 577 577 v England, 09/08/2007 
24 S.J. Harmison ENG 574 875 v West Indies, 19/08/2004 
25 J.H. Kallis SA 560 742 v England, 21/08/2003 
26 D.W. Steyn SA 548 548 v Pakistan, 01/10/2007 
27 Harbhajan Singh IND 546 765 v New Zealand, 12/12/2002 
28 S.L. Malinga SL 545 546 v Bangladesh, 03/07/2007 
29 C.R.D. Fernando SL 538 543 v Bangladesh, 03/07/2007 
30 P.T. Collins WI 501 597 v South Africa, 31/03/2005 
31 Abdul Razzaq PAK 486 524 v England, 27/07/2006 
32 Mohammad Rafiq BAN 452 587 v Zimbabwe, 06/01/2005 
33 J.M. Anderson ENG 442 442 v India, 09/08/2007 
34 F.H. Edwards WI 431 431 v England, 15/06/2007 
35 R.P. Singh IND 425 444 v England, 27/07/2007 
36 Mashrafe bin Mortaza BAN 415 459 v India, 18/05/2007 
37 C.H. Gayle WI 413 413 v England, 15/06/2007 
38 Mohammad Sami PAK 398 425 v England, 29/11/2005 
39 S.T. Jayasuriya SL 396 521 v Zimbabwe, 12/01/2002 
40 P.L. Harris SA 383 383 v Pakistan, 01/10/2007 
41 N. Boje SA 377 545 v West Indies, 29/03/2001 
42 D.B. Powell WI 375 375 v England, 15/06/2007 
43 R.J. Sidebottom ENG 368 448 v India, 19/07/2007 
44 M.M. Patel IND 354 396 v West Indies, 10/06/2006 
45 D.J.J. Bravo WI 349 399 v Australia, 25/11/2005 
45 J.E. Taylor WI 349 415 v Pakistan, 19/11/2006 
47 A.J. Hall SA 344 410 v England, 14/08/2003 
48 C.T. Tremlett ENG 336 367 v India, 27/07/2007 
49 Shahid Afridi PAK 333 385 v England, 20/11/2005 
50 J.D.P. Oram NZ 329 448 v South Africa, 26/03/2004

Speedboy Salesman

I think Mortaza of Bangladesh has promise too, He was excellent in the World Cup in the West Indies.

Ninjaman

Never really bothered by ratings or the world rankings, but I will say that they should have officially been chucked away the moment Corey Collymore got so high!!

Please edit your list, Collymore is NOT a tried and trusted medium pace favourite...well at least not to West Indians!

Nostromo

Another young bowler with talent is R P Singh, assuming he maintains his focus and does not get wayward like Sreesanth.

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