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Wal Bada 
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What are the deliveries have you seen to be among the best in cricket.
For me three instances 1. Warne to Basit Ali - Round the wicket, big leg break, ripped BETWEEN Basit Ali's legs and bowls him as he tried to pad up. 2. Murali to Butcher - Murali, right arm over, ball piches a yard outside leg and spins across Butcher and kisses the off stump - bowled 3. Murali to Kirsten - Once again, over the wicket, pitches two and half feet wide of leg and takes the off bowling round the legs 4. Famous Warne ball to Gatting But Warne to basit Ali one is my favorite. Edited by Wal Bada |
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ANIL KUMBLE
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 11:14am |
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Well the best i've seen not including footage of someone taking a beauty from 20 old years ago is probably Shane Warne's bowl to Andrew Strauss where it spun from the far right of the pitch to hit his pad infront of the wicket it would have been better if it actually hit the wicket. Also Stuart MacGill bowl a massive leggie from the middle of the pitch and cant remember who the batsman was but he tried cutting and went straight to the keeper that bowl spun alot more then Warne's delivery to Gatting & Strauss. One last one is Ashley Giles bowl to Damien Martyn massive spin no one expected it to come from Giles i'd think apart from skip_eng |
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Clobber
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 11:50am |
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Dale Steyn bowling Michael Vaughan with one that pitched middle and hit off...at about 90mph
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Clapo
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 12:17pm |
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Brett Lee yorks Jaques Kallis!! One of the best overs Lee has ever bowled!!! Lee had Kallis jumping all over the shop, playing and missing, ducking & weaving in the previous overs, and the start of the wicket taking over. The ball before the wicket he set him up beautifully for the ol 1-2 with a rip snorter of a short ball which rattled Kallis. Lee the promptly follwed that up with an absolute "peach of a delivery" to york kallis. |
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ANIL KUMBLE
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 12:22pm |
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Was that against the world X1 or in the VB series cause I remember Lee giving Kallis a tough time out there on the crease.
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dips_december
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 1:16pm |
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The one which i will bowl to Warne |
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Clapo
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 1:39pm |
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The ball from Lee to Kallis was in 1st Innings of the 2nd Test at the MCG in december AK.... another to add is Lee to Flintoff... shattering his stumps and any chance England has of Retaining the ashes.... Oh wait... thats yet to happen Edited by Clapo |
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5-0 You Beauty!!!!!
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Sledger
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 2:07pm |
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I was at the match Clobs , it was breathtaking! Vaughan's puzzled look at his stumps was quite comical! |
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ANIL KUMBLE
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That was his maiden test wicket which was the beauty to it a great way to start your test career by bowling Vaughan as your first test wicket is a dream you'd reckon but in the form Vaughan was I don't know either way great delivery. Congrats Sledger on 5,0000 posts |
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 2:19pm |
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The ball that removed Ponting for a duck in that memorable over by Freddie last year was truly brilliant.
Sighhhhhhhhh great memories. |
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I don't know what you're smoking Claps , but can you send me some!! |
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I would have to say Murali to Butcher or maybe Goughs ball after the no
ball wicket in the 1997 ashes to Greg Blewett or someone. Does anyone
remember this, truly amazing, perfect line and length loads of outswing
and caught at gully, if only things had turned out better in that
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 5:57pm |
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Does anyone know what ball I'm talking about?
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Wal Bada
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I am giving a desc. of a very rare beauty. Pramodaya Wickramasinghe Sl seamer, who hasn't much of a record to be proud of was playing in this Boxing day test at ?Melbourne. (The famous Murali-Hair incident was in this match)
Pramodaya bowled a perfect length inswinger that totally foxed Mark Taylor. It swung in, Taylor adjusted, then pitched, cut away like a off break and took the off. I think that's the only good ball I can remeber Pramodaya to bowl 
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 8:27pm |
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Harmison's slower ball in the ashes im not sure who it was to I think it was Micheal Clarke.
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 9:03pm |
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I'm surprised no one has picked up on Monty Panesar's beautiful Left Arm Spinning delivery to Younis Khan. Pitches middle/leg Kisses the off bail. A beauty!
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 11:48pm |
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it was Clarke, an absolute beauty too |
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Vaughan knew he'd been done by something special and you could see in close up he just shrugged his shoulders and accepted it would have done any batsmen from any era I reckon. AK that wasn't Steyn's first wicket - his 1st was bowling Trescothick, a fine ball in its own right. |
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Posted: 08 September 2006 at 11:53pm |
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ERM Waqar reverse swinging yorkers? Wasim's delvery to Lamb and Lewis 1992 wcup final? Wasim's over to Dravid, inswing, inswing, LBW not given and then an away swing pitched leg, hit off stump, this is man who is considered diffcult to get out esplly on asian picthes. |
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inzamam329
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Sledger wrote:
Shoiab bowled that same delivery to Jacques kallis twice, once in pak and once in safrica, wicktes went flying. He also bowled that great ball to Sachin, first ball yorker. The eden gardens went silent you could hear a pin drop. |
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Clapo
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Posted: 09 September 2006 at 12:33am |
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When i think about it... we see lots and lots of marvellous deliveries that take wickets... but so many go unrecognised. So the question is why do be single out these few to be a "peach of a delivery" yet the others are just a very good ball. To me it's the events/deliveries leading up to the wicket taking ball that sets these deliveries out from the rest... your thoughts?? Edited by Clapo |
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Clapo
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Flintoff to Hayden, fourth test... bowled him straight through the gate with a huge inswinger... had the big oaf flummoxed!
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Posted: 09 September 2006 at 12:37am |
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In some instances it is the context of the game - the Harmison ball to Clarke seemed to have set the seal on that game (combined with the fact that Harmi's slower ball was a relatively unknown weapon at the time) and Warne's ball to Gatting being the culmination of the hype about some new leggie the Aussies supposedly have found. In others it is simply a great ball, such as the Steyn one I mention.
Reverse context also applies to an extent - Glenn McGrath dismissed KP with a gem at the Oval last year (just as Richie was say bye byes  ) but that ball will never be remembered. |
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5,000 not 50,000. |
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Yup it was to him. Great delivery. According to me, "another great peach of a delivery" would be the one Asif bowled to Laxman. Pitches way outside off-stump and swung in and hit off-stump. Another one is Wasim Akram to Dravid. Bowled outside leg stump, swung towards off stump before bouncing. Dravid completely deceived moved to his front foot then his back foot and edged it. Would have been better if he was bowled.(Sorry Dravid, I'm still your biggest fan) |
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lintonskippa
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Posted: 09 September 2006 at 9:24am |
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a similar 1 to the asif-laxman delivery was the jones to clarke (yup, clarke again) in the ashes. it made me larf and larf harmys was a peacher. Edited by lintonskippa |
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If i had 3 wishes i would do 3 thing... exile mahmood and harmison, make geraint jones the best keeper in the universe and me the best leg spinner. what a lethal combination!
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Posted: 09 September 2006 at 11:17am |
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Imran Khan 1986 series against india, he bowled gavaskar and wishwanath by indipers, both the batsmen were leaving the ball outside off!
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so far so good!
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Wal Bada
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Posted: 09 September 2006 at 11:25am |
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The one's we are talking are special ones. You are not goimg to see one's like that in every match. probalay one in fifty tests! The one's I have described are such. The Gatting delivery may have been in that fame simply because it was bowled at Ashes. Otherwise Basit Ali delivery and the two Murali deliveries mentioned by me are much much difficult ones to bowl, because they occured in 2nd or 3rd day pitches without any rough and were batting beauties, and all of them spun much much more than the Gatting delivery. |
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Posted: 09 September 2006 at 12:44pm |
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how bout the one in the recnet ashes, 2005.
Warne bowled Andrew Strauss out, clean bowled through his legs. Andrew strauss sees the ball coming outside leg, and puts his right foot (being left hander) outside leg stump to cover the spin. It spins more than anticipated and ges through his legs hitting the stumps. He is left wondering and looking behind to see stumps and inning shattered... that was amaizng for me, its like magic seeing andrew strausses leg move as the ball turns. Then his head looking back. |
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Posted: 09 September 2006 at 12:47pm |
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oh, that Pramodaya Wickramasinghe guys ball seems a beauty. I imagine taylor woulda have been squared right up, with it flying past his bats edge. =P
my ideal ball!!! =P |
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