Best bowling peformance you have seen

I'm sick of these 'best....' threads *sigh

I'd need to dredge the memory banks to give a definitive answer, but Harmison's 7-12 against the Windies does spring to mind - he was absolutely unplayable.

Ravi Ratnayake's 8/83 against Pakistan at Sialkot on a fast bowler's graveyard, 1986. This effort was not a blow ayay effort, but slow death type strangulation.

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Jim Lakers all ten.

And no I'm not so old that I've seen it first hand, but I've seen every single one of the wickets.

I gues I can be bias being a pace lad myself but seeing the ball fired down so quick just makes it better for me. pin is by no means any less an art form rather probably more so. Harbajan/s series against ustralia must go down as dominant. It was not so much he was unplayble but to take so many wickets over a series. Must rate with Alderman and Grimmett for series returns

That peformance by McGrath against Pakistan also comes to mind. 8/24 in 16 overs to have them bowled out for 74. Lovely peformance.

Shoiabs two performances against auss in tests. No one in the auss team wanted to face him, he clean bowled the top players and you could see the concern on their faces when he was running up.

Irfans Hatrick agaisn't Paki's.Still India lose the match

Perhaps anyone who could get Donald Bradman out more than once?

In a ODI Charl Langeveldt took 5-61 against the West Indies when they needed 2 runs to win Langeveldt took a hat-trick giving them a 1 run win. Not the greatest bowling performance but still a great hat-trick. Was that when Collymore took 7-37 or 7-87 or was that Jermiane Lawson SW?

I'll upload McGrath's 8/24 on Youtube in a few hours. Loved that performance. :D

There have been so many in such differing circumstances to make choosing one spell at the best is impossible.

Originally posted by Sledger That was Malcolm's finest hour mate!  He really bust a gut that day - and all because Fanie de Villiers had hit him on the head with a short one!

Dear Cricket-Worlders,

In my mind one special test match sticks out as the best performance by an individual bowler. That performance was Chris Martin's comeback at Eden Park against South Africa in 2003/2004. He took 6/54 in the first innings and finished up with 11/180 and in the process single-handedly destroyed the confidence of the South African batsman. Only Simon Doull against India a few years earlier and Richard Hadlee's 15 wickets against Australia in Brisbane in the 80's come close for me. I'm a swing bowler so I guess that makes me a little biased, but if you ever find a video clip of Martin's effort you would not see a better example of swing bowling for a very long time.

Mind you, when the ball isn't swinging he is largely ineffective...

~A.G.~


Edited by Alieaz - 24 January 2007 at 1:35pm