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Which team has the best bowling attack in the 2019 World Cup?

Which team has the best bowling attack in the 2019 World Cup?

  • Afghanistan

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Australia

    Votes: 9 10.6%

  • Bangladesh

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • England

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • India

    Votes: 70 82.4%

  • New Zealand

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • Pakistan

    Votes: 5 5.9%

  • South Africa

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Sri Lanka

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • West Indies

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    85
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The top four teams in the table, i.e. New Zealand, Australia, England and India all have pretty strong bowling attacks. Which one do you reckon is the best?
 
India, England. India edges it because of the their spinners.
 
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Though I rate our India's attack the best, it's only weakened now with the exclusion of Bhuvi. Shami is not not disciplined as Bhuvi no matter how attacking his bowling is. He bowls well in patches and his death over bowling is way below the standards of Bhuvi. Burmah has gone missing in the last game against Pak. Hardik sprays it all over. Shankar is new and needs experience to achieve decent success. KulCha are not getting wickets together. Jadhav is just hit or miss kind. Overall, Indian bowling attack looks weak without Bhuvi and not-so-in-form Bumrah! NZ have the most disciplined bowlers currently.
 
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Voted for India. They’re leading the votes ATM, only one each for Aus and Pak.
 
India, Australia (incl best bowler in Starc), NZ. The others are all very average to poor.
 
Pakistan.

When they play like cornered tigers.

Talent wise best bowling team. Delivery wise not quite there yet and it might have got too late now for them.
 
NZ/Aus/WI are on same level. Ind is just tad better due to spin duo. Once you negate KulCha Indian ataack would be ordinary with Pandya and Shankar as 3rd seamer.
 
freelance_cricketer said:
Pakistan.

When they play like cornered tigers.

Talent wise best bowling team. Delivery wise not quite there yet and it might have got too late now for them.
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This is playing to the the gallery!

Pk's bowling is at best 4th behind India, Aust and NZ. It is probably behind a few others too, South Africa for instance.
 
bujhee kom said:
This is playing to the the gallery!

Pk's bowling is at best 4th behind India, Aust and NZ. It is probably behind a few others too, South Africa for instance.
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Man its on par with Bangladesh. Just look at the stats. Even WI bowling attack is far superior.
 
freelance_cricketer said:
Pakistan.

When they play like cornered tigers.

Talent wise best bowling team. Delivery wise not quite there yet and it might have got too late now for them.
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I don't get this "talent" stuff that you keep mentioning on every post.
What is your criteria for calling a team talented? If Pakistan is the most talented team, in what areas do other teams lack "talent"?
Why does such a talented team almost always fail to deliver?
Why do other less "talented" teams produce more wins?
 
BDfanforever said:
NZ/Aus/WI are on same level. Ind is just tad better due to spin duo. Once you negate KulCha Indian ataack would be ordinary with Pandya and Shankar as 3rd seamer.
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Would like to give any idea to rest of the teams as to how would you negate KulCha? And I thought Bumrah was also an Indian?
 
India has the best bowling attack in this WC

Who would have thought that one day India would have the most complete bowling attack, they have all bases covered i.e. reliable pacers in Bhumra, Bhuvenshvar, Shami. A reliable batting fast bowling all rounder in Hardhik, reliable match winning spinners in Kuldeep and Chahal.

Hard to see any team dominating this bowling attack, there are no weak links and respite
 
We will have a bad day with the ball once atleast and if Rohit/Kohli don't have a good day that day we will lose. Bowling is top notch but we have glaring weakness in middle order which will come to bite us once in the tournament. Hopefully it's not in knockouts
 
True. Bowling attack is GOAT.
Four genuine wicket takers. Even 5th bowler Pandya is no joke.
 
cricketjoshila said:
We dont have the best bowling attack. But we surely have a very balanced one.
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Really? complete hyperbole response

Who has the best bowling attack ?

Personally disappointed from bumrah he has set pretty high standard so not seeing in top 5 wicket taker in worldcup is surprising other than that Indian bowling is complete package and best in the world
 
I think they are bowling very well as a unit. No one bowler is the stand out performer, they are all contributing and hunting in packs.
 
You told us that back in the 90’s, we’d have told you there were more chances of Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels burying the hatchet.

Back to 2019, both those impossible things have turned into reality.
 
saeed5646 said:
Really? complete hyperbole response

Who has the best bowling attack ?

Personally disappointed from bumrah he has set pretty high standard so not seeing in top 5 wicket taker in worldcup is surprising other than that Indian bowling is complete package and best in the world
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Australia
 
Syed1 said:
I think they are bowling very well as a unit. No one bowler is the stand out performer, they are all contributing and hunting in packs.
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No wonder, not one of them has taken even 10 wickets yet in this WC.
 
saeed5646 said:
Really? complete hyperbole response

Who has the best bowling attack ?

Personally disappointed from bumrah he has set pretty high standard so not seeing in top 5 wicket taker in worldcup is surprising other than that Indian bowling is complete package and best in the world
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Teams are being careful against him and seeing him out. He has been economical and the pressure he creates benefits others
 
Savak said:
Teams are being careful against him and seeing him out. He has been economical and the pressure he creates benefits others
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Don't want to derail this thread but amir is also very economical in first 10 overs .Either bumrah is not used properly or he is not bowling attacking line more
 
We have a very decent bowling unit but Pakistan and Australia are still ahead
 
saeed5646 said:
Don't want to derail this thread but amir is also very economical in first 10 overs .Either bumrah is not used properly or he is not bowling attacking line more
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The other Indian bowlers are bowling well as well. In Amir's case the other bowlers are blowing hot and cold.
 
Xoib said:
Lol Pakistan attack is very middling it’s not the worst but there are atleast 3-4 attack’s who are ahead
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When they play like cornered tigers they are the best in the world.

That’s what I choose to believe
 
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Surprised to see most PP'ers agree, but I guess I shoudln't be! Based on performance, Indian bowling attack is the most complete. They've got everything.. opening bowlers, bowlers at the death, and one of the rarest commodities in ODI cricket right now - bowlers and a captain who can control the middle overs.
 
Agreed with [MENTION=65183]freelance_cricketer[/MENTION] : Pakistan of course their bowling attack is the best

Followed by Australia
 
Not a tough poll this. But the bad thing about this is that these bowlers are covering up the middle order fragility.
 
India has the ability to take wickets in the middle overs.

Something we had in the CT and was critical to us winning it.
 
India and it's not even close, 4 champion bowlers competing each other for wks, which is why we are comfortably outbowling oppositions despite not having any of our own in the top 5 wk takers list in this wc.
 
I think, with Fakhar, Imam, Babar, Haris, Hafeez and Sarfaraz .. Pakistan have enough firepower to put a decent score on the board. I mean, if they can't , then Asif Ali is not going to make a huge difference.

Amir (LFM), Afridi (LFM), Wahab (LF) and Shadab (RLB) are fixed.

So our question is the ALL ROUNDER spot. I feel, Hasan Ali (RFM) would be a better addition.

Thereby he will be adding a new dimension to the Pak attack.

This will make Pakistan the most complete attack. With Hafeez (ROB) and Harris (SLA) also chipping in.
 
India has just 2 bowlers in top 15

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But almost every bowler has min of 5 wkts

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Early wickets are the key and the Indian opening bowlers more often than not get them.

What will be interesting though is how the spinners and Pandya will cope if the early breakthroughs don't materialise.
 
Saj said:
What will be interesting though is how the spinners and Pandya will cope if the early breakthroughs don't materialise.
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Happened against Australia. India picked its first wicket in the 14th over. Thing about the Indian bowlers is they're very disciplined. Even when they're not taking wickets, they bowl tight and give very little away.
 
Australia for me. Cummins, Behrendoff and Starc as a trio are just deadly. Once Lyon starts getting into wicket taking form they'll be very difficult to play against.
 
MP2011 said:
On the basis of 1 game they played together?
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I think it'll be further proven. Australia, despite winning games, didn't find the perfect combination for quite a while. I think with Zampa and Richardson they had specialist bowlers who I wouldn't say were a liability, but definitely too easy at times to go after. They have now seemingly fixed that issue with Behrendoff and Lyon there. Obviously this could all change, but that performance against England was a statement.
 
India and Australia are way ahead of the rest when it comes to bowling. India is slightly ahead due to quality of their spin.
 
WC-Passion said:
I think it'll be further proven. Australia, despite winning games, didn't find the perfect combination for quite a while. I think with Zampa and Richardson they had specialist bowlers who I wouldn't say were a liability, but definitely too easy at times to go after. They have now seemingly fixed that issue with Behrendoff and Lyon there. Obviously this could all change, but that performance against England was a statement.
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Australia have been selecting their XI based on match-ups done via analytics.

So don't be surprised if you see Behrendoff not playing against NZ.
 
ak619 said:
Australia have been selecting their XI based on match-ups done via analytics.

So don't be surprised if you see Behrendoff not playing against NZ.
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Analytics are not everything in sport. It'd be weird to not play Behrendoff unless the pitch against NZ is a dustbowl and they want to play Zampa.
 
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