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Out of these four bowlers—Brett Lee, Kagiso Rabada, Courtney Walsh and Craig McDermott—who has the best performance in both Tests and ODIs?

Which fast bowler have the best overall performance in test and odi

  • Courtney Walsh

  • Brett Lee

  • Kagiso Rabada

  • Craig McDermott

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There performance in Test and ODI respectively

Courtney Walsh: 24.4 and 30.5
Brett Lee: 30.8 and 23.4
Kagiso Rabada: 21.5 and 27.8
Craig McDermott: 28.6 and 24.7

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Craig McDermott gets very less credit than what he deserves.
 
Tests :-

Walsh
Rabada
McDermott
Lee

ODIs :-

Lee
McDermott
Rabada
Walsh

Neither can be considered all format greats. Overall, Rabada and Walsh are or will be ATGs due to their test exploits.
 
I always though Courtney Walsh was a bit overrated. He is well regarded because he was consistent and took alot of wickets, but he never had that pace, swagger and bravado that you associated with West Indian quicks back in the day. He is probably more comparable to Anderson than anyone else.

Last great West Indian quick from that golden era was probably Ian Bishop. A shame he had his career derailed due to injuries.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
I always though Courtney Walsh was a bit overrated. He is well regarded because he was consistent and took alot of wickets, but he never had that pace, swagger and bravado that you associated with West Indian quicks back in the day. He is probably more comparable to Anderson than anyone else.

Last great West Indian quick from that golden era was probably Ian Bishop. A shame he had his career derailed due to injuries.
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Anderson was amazing during his last decade but before that he wasn't that much.Anderson is an outlier who became dangerous later in his career, despite many pace bowlers to lose their ability to take wickets.Walsh took 2.2 wickets per match like Ambrose when both ball together.He was inferior too player like Ambrose,Roberts.Joel but he was a bowler who can take wicket despite not having pace.
 
Quite an eclectic list. What made you select these 4?

Across both formats my pick is Kagiso.
 
Rabada
Lee
CJ
Walsh

I’ll go in that order.

Walsh never was a strike bowler - he was one of the greatest ever stock bowler to do the donkey job, but till Bishop got injured, he never took new ball in his first 10 years and last few series also when Rion King was available. And, his ODI figure is simply average for the time.

CJ debuted early as he debuted in those rare years when Aussies were not among top 2 teams in world. He was very good all round fast bowler, just a shed below the ATG class.

Lee was a very good Trst bowler, but at ATG ODI bowler, just a shed behind Rabada as an all-round fast bowler.

Among four, Rabada is the most complete fast bowler and his record speaks for itself. His ODI stats would have been phenomenal had he not played 300 per era.
 
Mamoon said:
KG Rabada is the best bowler in this group.
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It's clear as day. Easily the best bowler and imo south Africa's second greatest bowler of all time. Hell wouldn't be wrong to put him above donald or steyn. In tests
.I don't care for other formats.

Tests create legends.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Not from Pakistan fans. Before Michael Hussey or Matthew Wade, it was Billy the Kid who gave us our first generational World Cup trauma.
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It was destined I guess. At that time All the talk was about an ind pak final. Nobody had given a damn chance to aus or eng. McDermott & Steve Waugh ended pak hopes while Graham gooch "swept" away ind hopes in an anti climax leading to an aus eng final at Kolkata..
 
Walsh deserves better appraisal. Picking 520 test wickets at avg under 25 and excellent record in Asia is not a joke. He retired more than 20 years ago and is still leading wicket taker for Windies and one of the leading wicket takers of all time.

He was a gun bowler in second half of his career and that’s probably as good as the careers of Lee and McDermott. Rabada should surpass him eventually but don’t think he has done it yet.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
I always though Courtney Walsh was a bit overrated. He is well regarded because he was consistent and took alot of wickets, but he never had that pace, swagger and bravado that you associated with West Indian quicks back in the day. He is probably more comparable to Anderson than anyone else.

Last great West Indian quick from that golden era was probably Ian Bishop. A shame he had his career derailed due to injuries.
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I think that's a bit unfair to Walsh the Test bowler.

Of the 90's bowlers , you can say Donald, McGrath, Wasim, Pollock and Ambrose were superior bowlers but it's hard to deny this guy.

People make a lot of the wobble seam nowadays and how it's nigh unplayable. Walsh was doing it in the 90's and a lot of his success can be attributed to that.

Walsh and Pollock were the OG wobble seamers who made up for lack of pace with accuracy and unpredictable lateral movement
 
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