Who is the best bowler in the world?

Hai Ravi, there's a forgotten man here and his name is Sir Richard Hadlee. Wasim Akram and some of the other bowlers mentioned (except kapil) have indulged in intimidating batsmen at one stage or the other in their career. They did so by bowling savage bouncers, toe crushers and staring hard and sledging. And we all know the ball tampering controversies. But Hadlee purely depended on his bowling skills to get his wickets. His measured run up, smooth action, follow through, line and length, ability to read batsmen's weakness and exploit them and adjusting the line and length according to the climate and pitch condition were all very exemplery. He was arguably the best corridor bowler the world has ever seen, even better than Dennis Lillee and Glen Mcgrath put together. In his last tour to India, our batsmen were dancing like puppets to his tune. Vengsarkar, who was those days' Dravid, was out pathetically clean bowled to a particular beautiful inswinging overpitched delivery after hadlee noted that he had a tendency to leave a small gap between his bat and the backfoot when he prepared to strike the ball everytime. The ball was bowled in such a beautiful fashion that all vengsarkar was able to do was to just helplessly stare at the trajectory and noting with dejection his stumps getting disarrayed, standing like a frozen man with his bat prepared for initiating the stroke. Out of desperation, a hard hitter from tamilnadu called VB Chandrasekar was specifically chosen to go after his bowling, but he too failed. He did all these wonders suffering from a heart abnormality called Wolff Parkinson White syndrome. Above all, he retired when he was good enough for another 3 years atleast while in his peak form unlike kapil.

According to my thought Best bowler is KapilDev from India.

In my views Wasim Akram is the best bowler He has so many verities and read the batsman very well

I think Wasim was the best and just a marginally ahead of another legend team mate Waqar Younis

yes wasim akram is also the best bowler in the world .he has also the record of hoghest wicket taker in the world , according to me mcgrath,bretlee,shane bondare the best bowlers from they i prefer mecgrath.

I think, Worlds best bowler is Glen Mcgrath , Because he has 36year old inspite of he is bowling well and still he is Australians match winner bowler, many time he has won to Australia again all the team. Specially again India Mcgrath performance always excellent othewise India would have beaten Australia very easily. His line and lenth is excellent in control.

Hmm.. to say who is the best bowler at the present is quite hard as there are a lot of best palyers from different countries. The list include: Australia: Shane Warne Glenn McGrath Brett Lee Stuart MacGill Nathan Bracken Jason Gillespie Michael Kasprowicz Stuart Clark Andrew Symonds Brad Hogg Shaun Tait England: Steve Harmison Matthew Hoggard Andrew Flintoff Simon Jones Ashley Giles Liam Plunkett Paul Collingwood Monty Panesar Ian Blackwell James Anderson Gareth Batty Shaun Udal Kabir Ali Sajid Mahmood Chris Tremlett Pakistan: Shoaib Akhtar Danish Kaneria Mohammad Sami Shahid Afridi Shoaib Malik Abdul Razzaq Rana Naved-ul-Hasan Mohammad Asif South Africa: Makhaya Ntini Shaun Pollock Andre Nel Johan Botha Charl Langeveldt Jacques Kallis Nicky Boje Graeme Smith Justin Kemp Andrew Hall Roger Telemachus New Zealand: Shane Bond Daniel Vettori Chris Martin Nathan Astle Ian Butler India: Anil Kumble Irfan Pathan Sri Sreesanth Harbhajan Singh Yuvraj Singh Munaf Patel Ashish Nehra Sri Lanka: Muttiah Muralitharan Chaminda Vaas Malinga Bandara Ruchira Perera Dilhara Fernando Nuwan Zoysa Lasith Malinga Nuwan Kulasekara Upul Chandana But if one had to be identified, it had to be one who could also pitch and for this I have to say adds another confusion. There is some confusion as to the precise definition that a player needs to fit in order to be considered an all-rounder. The generally accepted criterion is that a genuine all-rounder is someone whose batting or bowling skills, considered alone, would be good enough to win them a place on the team. By this definition, true all-rounders are quite rare, and extremely valuable to a team since they effectively count as two players. One commonly used statistical rule of thumb is that the batting average of an all-rounder (the higher the better) should be greater than the bowling average (the lower the better). The need to excel in both departments complicates comparison between players, especially when they played under the differing conditions of disparate historical eras. For example, Imran Khan had the exceptional combined Test cricket averages of 37.69 with the bat and 22.81 with the ball; by comparison Keith Miller had 36.97 and 22.97 and; Ian Botham had 33.34 and 28.40 respectively. The issue is clouded by the many specialist batsmen and bowlers who exhibit some degree of skill in the other department. For example, the Australian bowlers Brett Lee and Shane Warne are good batsmen, but not quite good enough to be selected as a Test batsman in their own right. Debate continues as to whether players in this class, including batsmen who can bowl a few useful overs such as Sachin Tendulkar, are to be considered all-rounders. One of the most amazing all-round feats was that of E. M. Grace on 15 August 1862. He carried his bat through the entire MCC innings, scoring 192 not out of a total of 344. He then took all 10 wickets in the Kent first innings for 69 runs. However this is not an official record as it was a 12-man game, one of the Kent batsmen was missing, and furthermore he bowled underarm. A further confusion to all-rounder status is added when fielding is considered. Particularly in the modern game great emphasis is put on fielding skills and some exceptional fielders have been considered "all-rounders" by some, Jonty Rhodes being a prime example. If one is to consider all three disciplines then Frank Woolley perhaps stands alone. He is the only player to take 1000 first class catches (excluding wicket-keepers), only Jack Hobbs has scored more first class runs and he took over 2000 wickets at an average of less than 20.

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this is interest discussion. i think that is difficult to choose who is the best bowler in the world, because they are all have a chance to be the best player in the future.

Hi Wasim Akram is undoubtely the best bowler of all times...why do you forget about his foot breaking yorkers ...He have won matches single handedly for his country ......He was a great man aswell he never puts his foot wrong while bowling always maintain the discipline in his line and lenght

as far as now the best bowler is muthiah muralithran.

i think murali is the best in da world that guy has performed evrywhere even on pitches that doesnt asists spinner, his ability to bowl long and tight spells and knack of picking up wickets at crucial time makes him one of the deadliest bowler , he is one of the few spinners who can through the opposition batting line and destroy them with overs .

If we talk about the retired players than no doubt its Wasim Akram and in playing players i will go for Shane Warne, Muhammed Asif, Shoaib Akhter , Mcgrath and Murlitharan.

McGrath is definately the best(not for much longer) Consistancy is what Shoab lacks

Da best Bowler in da world is SHOIB AKHTER...