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It's a great ball but it did hit a crack. So I will not call him ball of century or anything like that.
 
There were many. Akhtar to Dravid, Sreesanth to Kallis, RP Singh Matt prior, Steyn to Michael Clarke. It goes on and on
 
With the Ashes everything is so hyped. Everything is the shot of the century, ball of the century and catch of the century.
 
that wad crack in the pitch which did it otherwise some of his other deliveries would have swung as well.
 
Khan already bowled pointing in 2007 1st test and that too without the crack.
Steyn bowled Sehwag with more swing in one odi which was literally like leg spin.
 
Why is everything at the Ashes so overhyped? Give me Aus vs SA anytime.Their Test matches are all the stuff of legends.
 
That wicket of Pointing was more special , Pointing was on full fledged front foot to cover the swing and some how Khan still bowled him
 
Steyn's all outswing wickets against righties are absolutely gorgeous to watch. HE is just magical when he gets his outswing going.
 
Ball of the year.

Yes it did hit a crack but still looked great to watch.

Simply unplayable for any batsman.
 
Some people behaving like these kind of deliveries are routine ones

Its one hell of delivery in real view,yes ball hit the crack that's how such deviation occurred but outrageous one indeed.

He just bowls almost round arm from around the stumps and creating the kinda angle with shear pace!!just brilliant
 
That ball from Mitchell Starc is getting out Sachin, Bradman and Steven Smith 1000 times out of 1000 times " ~ Graeme Swann
 
Protea Fan said:
Some people behaving like these kind of deliveries are routine ones

Its one hell of delivery in real view,yes ball hit the crack that's how such deviation occurred but outrageous one indeed.

He just bowls almost round arm from around the stumps and creating the kinda angle with shear pace!!just brilliant
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Most folks here have not even held a season cricket ball yet give out statements like FTB and HTB which I think is extremely disrespectful. I have been guilty of it myself but having played some season ball cricket, I realize how tough it is even at the club level, let alone the international level.
 
No batsman in world cricket could have played that delivery. Starc was clearly trying to swing the ball back into Vince and any batsman would naturally play for the swing. It hit a crack but that's part of the game, I don't hear people complaining when spinners hit the rough and take "ball of the century" wickets. The combination of angle and speed of Starc makes this delivery literally unplayable.
 
Hitting a big crack and ball moving becomes the ball of the century?
 
Osama Shafeeqe said:
No batsman in world cricket could have played that delivery. Starc was clearly trying to swing the ball back into Vince and any batsman would naturally play for the swing. It hit a crack but that's part of the game, I don't hear people complaining when spinners hit the rough and take "ball of the century" wickets. The combination of angle and speed of Starc makes this delivery literally unplayable.
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How would you compare with delivery that does that same without hitting the crack. You should be rating that more right? Hitting crack may or may not be intentional. But crack made the ball "ball of the era" whatever we want to call it.. Warne's ball to Gatting or Ashwin's ball to Amla were not assisted by cracks.
 
Come one. Its more of a cut/seam than swing. How can it be ball of decade/century. Amir's delivery to Mitchel Johnson was lot more insane (2010). Even the previous one before that.
 
Not even ball of the Ashes! It was a good line and length ball which hit a crack and sharply changed direction. What next a ball which hits a crack and then rolls on the stumps will be called the greatest ball ever?

Ashes and hype is getting embarrasing now.
 
Protea Fan said:
That ball from Mitchell Starc is getting out Sachin, Bradman and Steven Smith 1000 times out of 1000 times " ~ Graeme Swann
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Such a delivery is enough to send a man home half way through a tour :P
 
It's good but not as good as the kind of hype it is getting... 1000 times of 1000 :)))


Hasan Ali bowled a very similar bowl and he didn't need assistance of a crack to help him


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^ Pure reverse swing with perfect line and length. You cant compare Starcs crack ball with this gem above. Some people get with the hype to feel included. :inti
 
Great delivery and would have dismissed any right hander. But there are a couple that I prefer. Mohammed Amir bowling Mitchell Johnson with an inswinger. Mohammed Asif bowling VVS Laxman with a ball that seamed inwards spectacularly.
 
Not really. It hit the crack and diverted.

Ball of 21st century is Ishant Sharma bowling Ricky Ponting in Mohali test 2008.

If you want a delivery to be taken seriously , atleast makes sure a great batsman is at the receiving end :)
 
James said:
Great delivery and would have dismissed any right hander. But there are a couple that I prefer. Mohammed Amir bowling Mitchell Johnson with an inswinger. Mohammed Asif bowling VVS Laxman with a ball that seamed inwards spectacularly.
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Not sure. May not have dismissed I shan’t Sharma who has grea dead bat anything in the area of stumps
 
It's right up there with the best.

Amir vs Johnson
Steyn vs Vaughan
Asif vs Laxman (multiple times)

I don't think the crack in the pitch should take away from that delivery. The idea of a "ball of the century" is that it would get anyone out regardless of form, experience, or technique. Starc's delivery is absolutely in that category because it would have made Steve Smith look silly too.

My opinion, Steyn vs Vaughan is the absolute peak of quality bowling. He made a good player of swing bowling look amateurish.
 
Saj said:
With the Ashes everything is so hyped. Everything is the shot of the century, ball of the century and catch of the century.
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also fluke of the century = Bairstow 100?
 
Lol, just took a break from exams to watch the "ball of the century" and I am utterly disappointed. Not only is outswing inferior to inswing, aesthetically, but this is no better than similar deliveries bowled by our very own Amir (bowled MJ, 2010), Hassan (bowled Parnell, 2017) and Junaid (bowled Yuvraj, 2013).

Ball of the last two months, at most.
 
Steyn to Vaughan, outswinger, 2004 Test match. Perhaps the most comprehensive dismissal of a very good batsman ever. This is nothing compared to that dismissal. Although in terms of being unplayable its right up there, but statements like 'ball of the century' are absolute nonsense.
 
Meh. Geoffrey Boycott’s gran would have hit that down the ground for 4 with a stick of rhubarb whilst wearing her pinny. :)

All jokes aside Geoffrey actually did blame Vince for that dismissal.
 
How could it possibly be ball of the century, Starc is not even Pakistani.
 
Gilly said:
How could it possibly be ball of the century, Starc is not even Pakistani.
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Don’t think the nationality would have mattered. The ball of the century needs to
1) Take a wicket
2) Have the trajectory of the ball rely solely on the bowlers skill and not pitch assistance
 
Gilly said:
How could it possibly be ball of the century, Starc is not even Pakistani.
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Hence , why many have insisted that Amir to Johnson delivery is the top contender. I mean , what could be more artful than bamboozling a tailender ...
 
Thomaskutty said:
Hence , why many have insisted that Amir to Johnson delivery is the top contender. I mean , what could be more artful than bamboozling a tailender ...
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True, but Johnson with 11 fifties and a century to his name, was no Chris Martin or even a McGrath when it came to batting.
 
Wasim Akram- Allan Lamb 1992 WC final. These aussies overhype their players too much
 
Brilliant ball but again, calling it ball of the century is stretching it a bit. The Australian bowling attack has been brilliant at home as expected. England have been extremely poor.
 


There is only one ball of the century - Wasim Akram to Dravid.

Starcy boy can never do this on a flat chennai wicket

Watch from 1:11
 
waleed88 said:


There is only one ball of the century - Wasim Akram to Dravid.

Starcy boy can never do this on a flat chennai wicket

Watch from 1:11
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Add to that the respective batsman - Dravid & ...... can’t recall his name!!!!!
 
Mobashir said:
It's a great ball but it did hit a crack. So I will not call him ball of century or anything like that.
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I agree. The Warne Getting ball was pure skill. This was full & fast & straight (all good, but not amazing) and the movement came from the slight luck of the crack. It's skill to hit that area but a fluke as to what it does off the crack. Starc has bowled a half dozen better balls that took wickets with his skill at swinging yorkers.
 
Thomaskutty said:
Hence , why many have insisted that Amir to Johnson delivery is the top contender. I mean , what could be more artful than bamboozling a tailender ...
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Well James Vince isn't much better than a tailender
 
This is just an illusion. Only Wasim Akram could bowl that type of delivery.
 
Just check the videos posted in this thread of the two balls of Wasim.. Amazing player.. Starc’s delivery is also amazing it’s always great to watch such super fast bowling.
 
Hit a crack. Great delivery but not the ball of this century. I would actually rate Sohail Tanvir's delivery to Dravid as one of the truly great deliveries of this century. Pitching outside leg to hitting outer half of off stump. That was one hell of a delivery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_OlCPPK5k
 
Don't think it matters if it hit the crack or not, we're not talking about the most skillful, artful delivery of all time, we're talking about how playable it was, and at that speed, with that abrupt deviation, that is dismissing next to anyone, every.single.time. You're best chance is actually if you're so bad that you misread the line being faaaar straighter than what it seemed and you get some bat onto it. Absolutely unplayable, definitely one of the best deliveries I've seen in a while, how much of the credits you give to Starc vs the pitch is up for bickering, the quality of the delivery is not.
 
shariqnoor said:
Hit a crack. Great delivery but not the ball of this century. I would actually rate Sohail Tanvir's delivery to Dravid as one of the truly great deliveries of this century. Pitching outside leg to hitting outer half of off stump. That was one hell of a delivery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_OlCPPK5k
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Such poor quality video they didn’t show the delivery from front angle nor did the commies analysed the delivery.. Is there any other video which shows the delivery in slow motion and front angle?

Disappointing as usual from neo sports.
 
big_gamer007 said:
Such poor quality video they didn’t show the delivery from front angle nor did the commies analysed the delivery.. Is there any other video which shows the delivery in slow motion and front angle?

Disappointing as usual from neo sports.
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I don't think you'll find another angle of this delivery. What you can do is change the speed setting of the video on Youtube. watch it on 0.25 speed!!! The commentator was Ramiz Raja, so you can't expect any analysis!!!
 
Wow. An absolute jaffa!!! Fast bowling at its finest leve :akhtar

Wasim would be proud of this one. One of the best ever. Reminded me of the one that Hasan Ali bowled in CT.
 
Meh! Just because it's the Ashes. Steyn bowled a late outswinger to Pujara from over the wicket that swung fro outside legstump to take the top of off back in 2011. Now that was one damned good ball. Like facing Warne at 140 kph.
 
or is this from Pakistan Women's Ghulam Fatima vs Sri Lanka Women....

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MenInG said:
or is this from Pakistan Women's Ghulam Fatima vs Sri Lanka Women....

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"As a leg-spinner, I have always followed Shane Warne - I always took inspiration from Warne. I wished to meet him someday but unfortunately, it couldn't happen now
 
It’s a great delivery by Starc, but wasim used to bowl these in his sleep.

There are so many great deliveries over so many years that it’s needless to call anything ball of the century. It was just introduced because of Warne’s delivery to Gatting because of the usual England suck up behaviour towards Australia from 1989 onwards - again a great ball, but one of many in history
 
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