PWC 800+ Point Bowlers: definitive list

[Rachael]

OK... what follows was a definitive list (from cricket@pwcratings.com) of the bowlers who have achieved career best bowling ratings of 800 or more.

Correct as of 27/02/2004 17:22:56 GMT Standard Time

1 S.F.Barnes
2 Imran Khan Pak
3 G.A.Lohmann Eng
4 G.D.McGrath Aus
5 M.Muralitharan SL
6 C.E.L.Ambrose WI
7= G.A.R.Lock Eng
M.D.Marshall WI
9 S.M.Pollock SA
10 Waqar Younis Pak
11 R.J.Hadlee NZ
12 I.T.Botham Eng
13 S.K.Warne Aus
14 D.L.Underwood Eng
15 A.K.Davidson Aus
16 C.V.Grimmett Aus
17= D.K.Lillee Aus
A.A.Donald SA
19= J.C.Laker Eng
F.S.Trueman Eng
L.R.Gibbs WI
W.W.Hall WI
23 A.M.E.Roberts WI
24 W.J.O'Reilly Aus
25 J.Briggs Eng
26 A.V.Bedser Eng
27= R.R.Lindwall Aus
W.A.Johnston Aus
29 J.Garner WI
30 C.E.H.Croft WI
31 Kapil Dev Ind
32 A.Kumble Ind
33 G.F.Lawson Aus
34 H.Trumble Aus
35 H.Ironmonger Aus
36 H.J.Tayfield SA
37 M.W.Tate Eng
38= H.Verity Eng
M.A.Holding WI
40 K.Higgs Eng
41 R.Benaud Aus
42 I.R.Bishop WI
43 C.A.Walsh WI
44 K.R.Miller Aus
45 R.G.D.Willis Eng
46 Fazal Mahmood Pak
47 C.Blythe Eng
48 G.D.McKenzie Aus
49 Wasim Akram Pak
50 N.J.N.Hawke Aus
51 N.A.T.Ad**** SA
52 Mushtaq Ahmed Pak
53 R.Peel Eng
54 J.A.Snow Eng
55 P.M.Pollock SA
56 B.A.Reid Aus
57 J.R.Thomson Aus

Make of it what you will.

[CJ D]

But where are the current crop of fast bowlers from the sub-continent? I have read the posts on the TMS International and South Asian boards and they sound really special.

[Rachael]

If someone would like to single out all the slow bowlers from that lot and break them down into finger / wrist spinners... or indicate which in that list were / are genuine fast bowlers as opposed to fast medium... or pick out any left arm over characters (whether spin or seam) that might be interesting.

A tougher one would be getting them in roughly chronological order... or working out how many 800+ bowlers there have generally been at any one time: something I once set myself as a challenge and then never got around to doing.

Alas, I'm now too busy to even contemplate any of the above... and will be for the forseable future... so: do with the list what you will!

[Rachael]

CJD - you obviously missed my post earlier on fast bowlers: I quote from it -

"Sami's Test rating right now is actually rather fun: he's steadily slide from the fringes of the top 40 to 63rd shows no sign of abating... and he's now been overtaken by Fidel Edwards... and sunk below Bicknell, Kirtley, Andrew Hall and (hope you are sat down) Adam Sanford!"

[CJ D]

LOL - I can always see the quality when that lad plays and it's generally the batsmans square cut to the boundary.

[Rachael]

Mmmm - starving a batsman of width isn't exactly his speciality, is it!

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by Rachael

Alas, I'm now too busy to even contemplate any of the above... and will be for the forseable future... so: do with the list what you will!

Do not despair Rachael, that's the sort of pointless time wasting activity that I quite often do myself when all the shopping and DIY is out of the way...I'll just fix my shower pump...and relay the kitchen floor...and then I'll get right on it.

What did you think of Flintoff's fivefer?