Pick the most beautiful bowling actions by type

[Slog]

A discussion on another thread got me thinking about smooth, beautiful bowling actions.

Pick for:

Right arm fast/medium:
Left arm fast/medium:
Right arm spin:
Left Arm spin:

Mine are:


Right arm fast/medium: Shane Bond
Left arm fast/medium: Amir (yes over Akram, Starc)
Right arm spin: Graeme Swann
Left Arm spin: None

Yours?

 

[kukkad kamaal]

Right arm fast : Debashish Mohanty

 

[LastManstanding]

Right arm fast/medium: Brett Lee
Left arm fast/medium: Zaheer Khan
Right arm spin: Graeme Swann
Left Arm spin: Pragyan Ojha

 

[ExplicitAI]

Right arm fast: James Anderson
Left arm fast: Mohammad Amir
Right arm offspin: Muralitharan
Right arm Legspin: Shane Warne
Left arm spin: Imad Wasim

 

[Cuts_and_cuts_hard]

Right arm pace: Michael Holding,Shane Bond, Curtly Ambrose, Allan Donald, Harold Larwood
Left arm pace: Mitchell Starc, Trent Boult, Chaminda Vaas (Did not like Wasim's action)
Right arm off spin: Saqlain, Virender Sehwag (yes really... beautifully smooth)
Right arm leg spin: Warne, Mushtaq
Left arm orthodox: Herath, Bedi
Left arm chinaman: Michael Bevan

 

[Kaptan]

Currently
Fast bowlers : Bhuvi, Amir, Yadav, Boult
Spinners : Mishra, Yasir

All time fav
Brett lee, Bond & Zaheer (old)

 

[Zak_Fan]

Right arm fast/medium: Brett Lee
Left arm fast/medium: Zaheer Khan
Right arm spin: Shane Warne

 

[ExpressPacer]

Right arm fast: Imran Khan and Anderson.
Left arm fast: Starc and Zaheer.
Offspin: Ajmal.
Left arm orthodox: Herath - Absolutely love his arm balls.
Legspin: Stuart Macgill.

 

[Ikball]

Right arm fast/medium: Shoaib Akhtar, Waqar Younus
Left arm fast/medium: Wasim AKram
Right arm spin: G Swann
Left Arm spin: Zulfiqar Babar

 

[big_gamer007]

Right arm fast: Shoaib
Left arm fast: Wasim
Right arm off spin: Romesh Powar
Left arm spin: Paul Adams
Right arm leg spin: warnie

 

[Ellipsism]

Right Arm Fast- Bond/Ambrose
Left Arm Fast- Boult
Right Arm Off Spin- Swann
Legspin- Warne

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

Right arm fast/medium: James Anderson, Shoaib Akhtar
Left arm fast/medium: Wasim Akram
Right arm spin: Saqlain Mushtaq
Left Arm spin: Herath (Although most people say Bedi had the smoothest action ever [MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] )

 

[Hamza_]

Shoaib Akhtar Right Arm Fast.
Mohammad Amir Left Arm Fast.

 

[Pollack]

Right arm fast : Shane Bond
Left arm Fast: Mitchell Johnson
Left arm spin: Brad Hogg
Right arm spin: Shane Warne
Underarm : Trevor Chappel

 

[captain crook]

Right fast - Brett Lee
Left fast - Johnson
Right spin - Warne
Left spin - Suleiman Benn

 

[TQ89]

Shane warne should be there for right arm spin in my opinion. Have not seen a much smooth or cleaner bowling action than him for spinners.

 

[Haroon786]

Right arm fast - Imran Khan, Shane Bond, Micheal Holding and Malcolm Marshall.

Left arm fast - Wasim Akram.

Right arm spin - Shane Warne and for an offie, Swann.

Left arm spin - Underwood looked good and Monty.

 

[ExpressPacer]

Right arm fast/medium: Shoaib Akhtar, Waqar Younus
Left arm fast/medium: Wasim AKram
Right arm spin: G Swann
Left Arm spin: Zulfiqar Babar

I second that. His action was actually quite smooth.

 

[ExpressPacer]

I don't understand the obsession with Akram's action. Yes, it was great, his quick arm speed deceived the batsman and it helped him generate pace but there was nothing necessarily "beautiful" about his action. Everyone has there opinion and I respect that but I personally think his action wasn't smooth and nor was it synchronized or repetitive. Every time you could spot a minute difference.

 

[Ikball]

I don't understand the obsession with Akram's action. Yes, it was great, his quick arm speed deceived the batsman and it helped him generate pace but there was nothing necessarily "beautiful" about his action. Everyone has there opinion and I respect that but I personally think his action wasn't smooth and nor was it synchronized or repetitive. Every time you could spot a minute difference.

Everyone has his own definition of beautiful, so they are talking about their own perspective.

 

[MMHS]

RAF: 1. Holding, 2. Bishop 3. Donald/Marshall
LAF: 1. Wasim, 2. Bret Shultzs 3. Strac
RAOS: not sure, I'll go with clean actions - probably 1. Eddi Hemmings, 2. Swan, 3. Arshad Khan
RALS: 1. Warne, 2. A Qadir, 3. Hirwani
SLAO: 1. BS Bedi, 2. Manindar Singh, 3. Herath

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

I don't understand the obsession with Akram's action. Yes, it was great, his quick arm speed deceived the batsman and it helped him generate pace but there was nothing necessarily "beautiful" about his action. Everyone has there opinion and I respect that but I personally think his action wasn't smooth and nor was it synchronized or repetitive. Every time you could spot a minute difference.

Well, watch this video immediately. In full screen and max audio!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6pGfGnOMqc

 

[BunnyRabbit]

Right Arm Fast: Shoaib Akhtar and Steyn
Left Arm Fast: Wasim
Right Arm Spin: Saqlain, Swann
Right Arm Leg Spin: Warne
Left arm orthodox: Vettori
Chinaman: Hogg

 

[Red Devil]

Right Arm Fast: Akhtar
Left Arm Fast: Wasim, Vaas
Right Arm Spin: Afridi
Left arm Spin: Herath

 

[Stewie]

RAF: Alan Donald... end of thread.

 

[spade]

Right arm fast/medium: Glen Mcgrath
Left arm fast/medium: Wasim Akram
Right arm spin: Greame Swann
Left Arm spin: B.S. Bedi

 

[Finisher]

Left Arm Spin- Zulfiqar Babar.

 

[JibranAnsari]

Shane bond
Wasim akram
Greame swann
Shane warne
Abdur rehman

 

[Bhaijaan]

My picks:-



Right arm fast/medium: Shane Bond
Left arm fast/medium: Pedro Collins
Right arm spin: Shane Warne
Left Arm spin: Sanath Jayasuriya

 

[Khwaja]

Spin: Saqlain Mushtaq
Fast: Billy Stanlake

 

[Kianig89]

Right Arm Fast Steyn
Left Arm Fast MJ
Left Arm fast med Wasim Akram
Right Arm thunderbolts Tanvir Ahmed
Right Arm Grunts Shahadat Hussain
Right arm High Jump Ashoke Dinda

Left Arm aesthetically T00lk1t

 

[Kianig89]

* Right arm Lollypop A Razzaq

 

[Poison]

Kagiso Rabada's action is beautiful. He's probably up there alongside Roa the Boa for the best RFM action of all time



I've always found Shoaib Malik's offspin oddly aesthetically pleasing.

 

[hitthestump]

I always thought Mohammad Sami's had a nice bowling action.

Unfortunately the actual delivery was rarely as good lol

 

[Dubawi]

My picks:

Right arm seam: Ambrose
Left arm seam: Nathan Bracken
Right arm spin: Harbhajan Singh
Left arm spin: Brad Hogg

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Taskin
Mustafizur
Mehedi Hasan
Shakib

 

[Rayyman]

Not Bumrah!

 

[Ultimate]

Right arm fast/medium: Glenn McGrath

Left arm fast/medium: Geoff Allot

Right arm spin: Shane Warne

Left Arm spin: Daniel Vettori

 

[QalandarFan]

Right Arm Fast - Bret Lee/Shoaib Akhtar
Left Arm Fast - Amir/Starc
Right arm Spin - Shane Warne
Left Arm Spin - Rangana Herath

 

[Hasan123]

Right arm fast- Jimmy,Donald,McGrath
Left arm fast-Amir,Boult,Wasim
Right arm spin-Warne,Kumble,Yasir, Saqlain.
Left arm spin-Jadeja,Herath,Vetorri

 

[PakLFC]

Imran Khan at his best had an awesome run up and action that many have tried to emulate. Other then that I liked that of Zaheer Khan and Abdul Qadir. Akram's was terrible and partly responsible for him having severe back problems throughout his career. Vettori had a good one for a spinner as well.

 

[The_Odd_One]

Marshall
Boult
Warne
Giles

 

[hafizexpress]

Right arm fast/medium: James Anderson, Brett Lee, Shoaib Akhtar
Left arm fast/medium: Amir, Starc, Boult, Junaid Khan (old)
Right arm spin: Yasir Shah, James Muirhead
Left Arm spin: Aaron Phangiso, Abdul Rehman

 

[aloo paratha]

Bond
Starc

 

[last_knight]

M. Akram had most beautiful bowling action across all types of bowlers.

LAF/M by action was C. Vaas.

 

[PakLFC]

Michael Holding and Dennis Lillee as well had good ones.

 

[Daniyal 13]

Right arm fast/medium: Glenn McGrath, Mohammad Asif, Shane Bond
Left arm fast/medium: Wasim Akram
Right arm spin: Saqlain Mushtaq, Graeme Swann
Left Arm spin: Xavier Doherty, Daniel Vettori

 

[Mamoon]

There are many, but if I were to pick one for each:

Right-arm fast: Imran Khan

Left-arm fast: Trent Boult

Right-arm spin: Graeme Swann

Left-arm spin: Michael Clarke

 

[Stallion__]

Right arm fast: Waqar Younis/Asif

Left arm fast: Trent Boult

Right arm finger spin: Greg Matthews

Right arm wrist spin: Shane Warne

Left Arm spin: Muhammad Rafique

 

[Nil Dhumrojal]

LAF: Guru wasim akram
Others: None