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UGLIEST BATTING ACTIONS :

1. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
2. Ejaz 'the Axeman' Ahmed
3. Graeme Smith
4. Peter Willey

BEAUTIFUL BATTING ACTIONS :

1. Viv Richards
2. David Gower
3. Brian Lara
4. Sachin Tendulkar


HORRIBLE BOWLING ACTION :

1. Paul Adams
2. Murali
3. Ashwin
4. Sohail Tanvir

BEAUTIFUL BOWLING ACTIONS

1. Imran
2. Holding
3. Lillee
4. Donald

Disagree? Add your choices :-)
 
Ugly batting:
Katich
Shiv
Fawad alam
Miandad

Beautiful batting:
Lara
Yousaf
Gower
Crowe
Kohli
Pujara
Saeed anwar
Imran nazir


Ugly bowling:

Ashwin
Bhumra
Marc wood
Harmison
ATA ur rehman
Mustafiz
Rahat ali
Ashish nehra


Beautiful bowling:
Imran
Donald
Wasim
Waqar
Asif
Lee
Amir
Saqlain
Warne
Darren gough
Flintoff
Jimmy anderson
Steyn
Boult
 
most beautiful bowling actions IMO is waqar, amir, brett and steyn and worst ones are bumrah and tanvir
 
Agree with Ugly bowling actions of Bhumrah, Ataurrehman, Nehra.

Agree Katich had an ugly batting style.

Not sure that Flintoff has a beautiful bowling action!

Waqar- certainly should be added to the beautiful actions and so should Warne.
 
Shane bond's the more aesthetically pleasing bowling action I've ever seen in my life. This and Waqar's action (which I tried copying a lot in my younger days) are two of the most beautiful bowling actions I've personally witnessed.

As of Today, Steyn and Amir are right up there as well.
 
Beautiful batting actions

Lara
Ponting
Pietersen
Yousaf
De Villiers

Beautiful bowling actions

Donald
Steyn
Starc
Boult
Bond
 
The Googly said:
Agree with Ugly bowling actions of Bhumrah, Ataurrehman, Nehra.

Agree Katich had an ugly batting style.

Not sure that Flintoff has a beautiful bowling action!

Waqar- certainly should be added to the beautiful actions and so should Warne.
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Freddie's bowling action looked wonderful to me. I don't know anybody who thinks otherwise.
https://youtu.be/x_AnuHdiHT0
 
Ugliest Batting: Chanderpaul, Smith, Fawad, Smith (SA)

Beautiful Batting Style: Sangakarra, Yousuf, Kohli, Sachin, Ponting, De Villiers

Ugliest Bowling: Tanvir, Adams, Bumrah, Malinga, Bennett

Beautiful Bowling Actions: Steyn, Amir, Hasan Ali, Warne, Waqar, Wasim, Donald, Ambrose, Marshall, Imran, Lee, Asif, Saqlain, Shah
 
mmkextreme_1 said:
Ugliest Batting: Chanderpaul, Smith, Fawad, Smith (SA)

Beautiful Batting Style: Sangakarra, Yousuf, Kohli, Sachin, Ponting, De Villiers

Ugliest Bowling: Tanvir, Adams, Bumrah, Malinga, Bennett

Beautiful Bowling Actions: Steyn, Amir, Hasan Ali, Warne, Waqar, Wasim, Donald, Ambrose, Marshall, Imran, Lee, Asif, Saqlain, Shah
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100% agree on Yasir shah.. dunno how I missed him. That's just the most beautiful bowling action for a leggie. Absolutely poetry
 
Beautiful bowling actions - Holding (loved his run up), Donald, McGrath (such a repeatable action) Ambrose (released the ball so high with his jump and high arm action).

Ugliest - Paul Adams (arms and head all over the place) and Sohail Tanvir.
 
Very surprising that no one mentions the king of graceful batting(agreed by many) Carl Hooper. Inspite of decent avg he grossly underachieved as a batsman though.
And other than him Daryl Cullinan who is perhaps the most graceful ever from SA. Mark Waugh the most graceful Aussie of his generation.
The worst looking batsman has to be Fawad Alam, the dancing joker. And remember one Saleem Elahi.
 
Ugliest : Sohail Tanveer, Bumrah

Best Wasim, Waqar, Steyn
 
Fawad Alam - agree with a previous poster. Horrible style.

Carl Hooper - very graceful.

Kohli - beautiful action.

Majid Khan - forgot him. Graceful and stylish player.
 
Ugly: Hales


Goodlooking: Kohli and Khawaja


Ugly: Bumrah Tanveer


Goodlooking: Zaheer Khan, Broad, Amir, Waqar, Southee and steyn.
 
Best bowling actions - Steyn, Donald, Wasim and Bond

Best batting actions - Crowe, Lara, SRT, AB
 
Best bowling action -Donald, Anderson, Boult, Wasim, Yasir,and Warne

Best batting actions -Sachin, Sangakara, Moyo, Kohli, Williamson,Khawaja, Martyn, Bell,Mahela,

Ugly batting actions-Cook,Lara,Amla,Shiv, Katich.

Ugly bowling actions-Tanvir, Paul Adams,Bumrah,
 
As much as I hated the fact that Mohammad Sami has no control over his bowling. I used to love his bowling action.

Having said that,
Ugly batting action: Smith, Fawad, Chandepaul,
Ugly bowling action: Sohail Tanweer, Ashwin, P Adams,

Best Batting Action: Saeed Anwar, Mohammad Yousaf, Dravid, Lara,
Best Bowling Action: Mcgrath, Wasim, Asif, S. Pollock, Shane Warne, Saqlain,

and it was a treat seeing Shoaib Akhtar run in.
 
Currently enjoy watching Rabada, Hasan and Amir bowl.

They're not the most fluid but I also enjoy watching Pattinson and Cummins bowl.
 
Best bowling action: Michael Holding, Mohammad Asif,Stuart Broad, James Anderson, Wasim Akram, Shane Bond, Hasan Ali

Ugly: Tanveer, Bumrah, Paul Adams, Ntini, Andre Nel, Malinga.
 
Allan Donald, Dale Steyn, Jimmy Anderson, McGrath and the Pakistani legends bowling actions were great and in batting I loved to watch Ricky Ponting, Yousaf and Anwar in full flow
 
India had this bowler called Mohanty in the 1990s, his action was rank awful, everyone in school used to take the mick by imitating whilst messing around in the playground
 
beautiful batting: Tendulkar, Kohli, Laxman, Hooper, Anwar, M Waugh, Sanga, Ponting, Gilly, Gayle.

Bowling: Warne, Bond, McGrath, M Asif, Bishop, A Agarkar, Donald, Steyn, B Lee, U Yadav, Waqar, S Pollock.
 
Hasan123 said:
Best bowling action -Donald, Anderson, Boult, Wasim, Yasir,and Warne

Best batting actions -Sachin, Sangakara, Moyo, Kohli, Williamson,Khawaja, Martyn, Bell,Mahela,

Ugly batting actions-Cook,Lara,Amla,Shiv, Katich.

Ugly bowling actions-Tanvir, Paul Adams,Bumrah,
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If Amla and Lara are ugly then you must watch bull fighting and not cricket. Really man this is just unfathomable to pick up sense from some, hahaha.
 
kaifmazhar said:
If Amla and Lara are ugly then you must watch bull fighting and not cricket. Really man this is just unfathomable to pick up sense from some, hahaha.
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I think their trigger movement is probably the reason behind putting them in that category, though I don't agree.
 
Not a popular choice but for me it is Courtney Walsh. Smooth run up and then an explosive unwinding motion before the release, like Wasim. Liked em both. Currently it is Philander. Also like MJ's slingy action.

Batting wise, currently it is QdK. Looks very unassuming but hits class cover drives and flicks.

Speaking of class how can I forget our very own Amin. Showed his class in SAF.

Lastly, Mohammad Yousuf was very elegant as well as zaheer Abbass from what footage videos I've seen.
 
Beautiful Batting: Saeed Anwar, Sachin Tendulkar, Mohammad Yousuf, Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara, Virat Kohli, Joe Root, Kane Williamson, AB De Villiers.

Ugly Batting: Shiv Chanderpaul, Simon Katich, Fawad Alam

Beautiful Bowling: Mohammad Amir, Dale Steyn, Trent Boult, James Anderson, Brett Lee

Ugly Bowling: Sohail Tanvir, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravi Ashwin.
 
Agree that Hassan ali has a very beautiful bowling action. You could watch that energy and passion all day.

There was a SA bowler around the 90s who didn't play much, Richard Snell, I used to like his bowling action as well. And Meyrick Pringle's as well.

M Waugh, Deano, Laxman, Azhar, Robin Smith, Vaughan, Ponting, Hooper, Viv all very pleasing. I also loved the urgency and a rather stiff upright style of batting of Gooch and Aamer Sohail (at times they looked mirror images of each other, one right and one left), Gooch could just stand there upright and drive, cut, pull, flick, basically play all around the wicket with the same exact stance, an acquired taste, I guess.
De Silva had a silky touch, very pleasing to the eye. Inzi was elegant, I want to say Younis Khan but not all the time. Yasir Hameed and Imran Nazir were very good to look at when in form driving through covers, very strong.
 
kaifmazhar said:
If Amla and Lara are ugly then you must watch bull fighting and not cricket. Really man this is just unfathomable to pick up sense from some, hahaha.
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Its there trigger movement which I find ugly. The stroke making is pleasing to watch no doubt. Also not a fan of Lara's bat lift.

OP didn't specify ugly.
 
Ugly batting: Fawad Alam, Khurram Manzoor, Shan Masood, Steve Smith, Alastair Cook, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Misbah-ul-Haq, Azhar Ali, Faf Du Plessis, Abdul Razzaq, Usman Khawaja

Beautiful batting: Virat Kohli, Mohammad Hafeez, Jason Roy, Yuvraj Singh, AB De Villiers, Corey Anderson, Brendon McCullum, Rohit Sharma, Babar Azam, Kumar Sangakkara, David Warner, Chris Gayle, Sharjeel Khan, Kevin Pieterson (his stance is one of the ugliest I've ever seen though), Quinton De Kock

Ugly bowling: Sohail Tanvir, Jasprit Bumrah, Lasith Malinga, Paul Adams, Munaf Patel

Beautiful bowling: Mohammad Amir, Junaid Khan, Hasan Ali, Dale Steyn, James Anderson, Corey Anderson, James Pattinson, Kagiso Rabada, Harbhajan Singh, Sohail Khan, Yasir Shah, Shahid Afridi, Imran Tahir, Umar Gul, Mitchell Starc
 
For bowling:

Ugly: Nehra, Zaheer, Munaf, Balaji, RP, Ishant, Harbhajan, Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar, Umesh, Kuldeep, Jadeja, Ashwin, Shami and Pandya

Beautiful: Imran, Wasim, Waqar, Akhtar, Afridi, Razzaq, Malik, Gul, Wahab, Amir, Junaid, Yasir, Hasan, Imad and Shadab
 
Rayyman said:
For bowling:

Ugly: Nehra, Zaheer, Munaf, Balaji, RP, Ishant, Harbhajan, Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar, Umesh, Kuldeep, Jadeja, Ashwin, Shami and Pandya

Beautiful: Imran, Wasim, Waqar, Akhtar, Afridi, Razzaq, Malik, Gul, Wahab, Amir, Junaid, Yasir, Hasan, Imad and Shadab
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Basically,

Ugly Action: Every Indian bowler
Beautiful Action: Every Pakistani bowler
 
Anybody remember mohanty?

What action! Lol all limbs and crazy wavering.

What about Dinda? Lol

Some Ugliest actions under the sun
 
Ugly batting: fawad alam x 4
Ugly bowling: ata ur Rehman
Beautiful batting: too many
Beautiful bowling action: holding, Mohammad Akram
 
Only action that came to mind after reading this headline was Paul Adams. How does something like that even qualify as a legal bowling action?
 
Watch Richard Hadlee, Holding and Lille if you want a smooth bowling action.
 
Ugliest bowling actions: Bumrah, Sohail Tanvir, Kaushik (some IPL guy), Paul Adams, Atul Sharma (170 mph)
 
Off the top of my head

Ugly bowling - Bumrah, Tanvir

Beautiful Bowling - Steyn, Starc, Amir

Ugly batting - Fawad Alam, Shiv, Azhar

Beautiful batting - AB, Sanga, Kohli
 
I'm only choosing players who currently play and not legends of the past.

Batting:

Beautiful -
1) KW; he's a treat to watch.
2) Pujara; when on song, he's arguably one of the most beautiful players to watch.

Ugly -
1) Virat Kohli; I admire the batsman and player he is but I don't really like watching him. He moves a little too much in the crease and looks all at sea when the ball seams.
2) Fakhar Zaman; Everyone knows about my love for the man but he's an ugly batsman to watch. He gets runs but a lot of them come off of edges, cuts and leg byes.

Bowling:

Beautiful -
1) Matt Henry and Adam Milne; absolute reflections of Bond.
2) Amir and Boult; free flowing actions, lovely to watch.
3) Mitchell Starc; aggressive action but I love it.

Ugly -
1) Kagiso Rabada; personally, I'm not a fan of his bowling action even though it yields him results.
2) Jasprit Bumrah; One of the ugliest actions I've ever seen.
 
3 of the most beautiful bowling actions I ever saw were Kapil Dev, Michael Holding and Richard Hadlee.

Lovely run up, smooth approach and effortless.

Great to watch.

As for batsmen - Gower, Saeed Anwar and Azharuddin. It was like watching magicians just waving a wand at the ball.
 
don't care that much for batsmen but some bowlers whose actions are almost like poetry

shane bond.
waqar younus.
bruce reid.
dennis lillee.
imran khan.
allan donald.
dale steyn.
muhammad asif.
richard hadlee.
danny morrison.
venkatpathy raju.
muhammad sami.
glen mcgrath.
wasim akram.
chaminda vaas.
curtly ambrose

i generally dislike burly actions along with those who bowl from so called wrong foot and some notable mentions are

kallis, himesh bennet, ntini, prasad, simon doull, stephen fleming, vikramasinghe, mohanty, mervyn dillon, paul adams, sohail tanvir, mike proctor etc.
 
ugly batting: Salim Elahi, Gayle, Fakhar
ugly bowling: Bumrah, Malinga
 
Lara with most beautiful batting style.
McGrath with beautiful bowling style.
Maxwell has ugly batting style.
Adams with ugliest bowling style.
 
GoUgandaCranes said:
don't care that much for batsmen but some bowlers whose actions are almost like poetry

shane bond.
waqar younus.
bruce reid.
dennis lillee.
imran khan.
allan donald.
dale steyn.
muhammad asif.
richard hadlee.
danny morrison.
venkatpathy raju.
muhammad sami.
glen mcgrath.
wasim akram.
chaminda vaas.
curtly ambrose

i generally dislike burly actions along with those who bowl from so called wrong foot and some notable mentions are

kallis, himesh bennet, ntini, prasad, simon doull, stephen fleming, vikramasinghe, mohanty, mervyn dillon, paul adams, sohail tanvir, mike proctor etc.
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Then you must dislike Steve Harmison as well.
 
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