Shane Bond, Ryan Harris or Ian Bishop - Who was your favourite bowler among the three?

[Sam99]

Both Shane Bond & Ian Bishop had injury full carrier where as Ryan Harris played few matches than you should have expected for player of his caliber.So who is your favourate bowler among this also let me know if i missed anyone else

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Shane Bond. My second fav bowler after Asif.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Bishop > Harris > Bond

 

[Justcrazy]

Shane Bond .

He dominated the best team of his era.

 

[The_Odd_One]

Hard to pick between Bishop and Bond. Both had beautiful bowling styles.

 

[The Googly]

We have a lada, a merc and a bmw. Harris is the lada.

Bishop takes it because imjury stopped him being an all tine great. Bond was a fantastic bowler but Bishop would have been a league above.

 

[Hasan123]

Shane Bond.

 

[Agent 47]

Ian Bishop

 

[Junaids]

I loved all three - they were all special bowlers.

But Bishop was by far the best (before his injuries).

Shane Bond's action meant that he could only obtain a tiny bit of movement, and it was into the batsman. He was similar to Colin Croft and Courtney Walsh in terms of his angle and movement, but quicker than both of them.

Ryan Harris' shortness meant that he didn't obtain enough bounce to trap the batsman in two minds about going forwards or back.

Ian Bishop was the complete bowler - like Harris he could move the ball both ways, but at a much faster speed and with much more bounce from a full length.

 

[Stallion__]

Bishop was best of the lot

 

[sunnykhan]

Bond, Shane Bond.

 

[Proactive_]

Didn't see any of Bishop but I keep hearing that he was God's gift to fast bowling so it must be him.

 

[proud_pakistani]

Shane Bond. Has to be one of my all time favorite bowlers ever. I modeled my bowling action on him. Was very skiddy, good movement and had a mean yorker. I only saw Bishop post injury and he was quite average than.

 

[saifi]

Bishop

 

[Robert]

Bishop. Before his injury he had that menace that only the really fast men have - like Marshall and Waqar.

 

[MMHS]

Bishop, no comparison with others. His initial bowling action was one of very few actions that I liked & tried to copy. I think, he is much taller than 6'5"; at least 2 metres (6'6.5"+) with a fantastic build & wide shoulders - ideal fast bowling shape. And he could swing the ball, could bat a bit. At his prime, he was probably more threatening than Ambi, but Ambi was extremely accurate, hence always maintained great average. Definitely in AUS/SAF, and arguably in U.K. At their best - Ambi/Bish pair was more threatening than WW or Donald/Pollock or McGrath/Gillespie.
[MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] - Not sure what was the reason for his career ending injury, because his action was smooth & side on, shouldn't stress much on body.

 

[MMHS]

Just checked, Wiki tells 1.96 metres. But, right now I am watching open championship & Matt Kucher is 2nd on leaderboard - he is listed 1.94 cm - tough to believe that Ian Bishop was just 2cm taller than Kucher

 

[leatherface58]

Bond is my emotional favorite 4 LIFE.

 

[Dark Magician]

I've never seen Bishop bowl but I did see Bond and he was good very good. BOND takes this

 

[Haz95]

Ryan Harris' booming inswinger first ball to Cook always springs up to mind whenever I hear his name. Was a top bowler and another who was lost the tag of ATG due to unfortunate reasons. Bond, Harris and Asif would've matched, if not beaten Steyn as ATGs if they had full length careers.

Out of the mentioned names, Bishop was the best due to having everything Bond and Harris had in their armoury, and then more.

 

[kaifmazhar]

Bishop was best. He was so terrifying when he started his career that batsmen preferred to throw their wickets instead of facing him for long time. It was not just the pace but that accurate rib targeting bowling that was so inconvenient for even some of the best in the business to face him.
Ask Sanjay Manjrekar who was knocked down once by him in one of the test match in carribean for a life threatening fall. Glad that Sanjay who is actually very nice guy,recovered to be back to normal. He did the same to few others in FC.
Had he not got injured he would have probably become the best Windies has ever produced. He was very well on track to do that.

 

[msb314]

Shane Bond - could have been an ATG if not for his injuries.

 

[Last Monetarist]

Bond by a significant distance. Anyone who saw that action couldn't help but be captivated, and then there was the sheer effrontery of the name itself. He was easily the most exciting fast bowler in the world between NZ's 01 tour to Australia and the 03 World Cup.