Perfect test pace quartet of all time?

[Harsh Thakor]

My choice of paceman to make the perfect pace quartet in a test team.Not considering batting prowess of the bowlers.

1.Wasim Akram
2.Glen Mcgrath
3.Curtly Ambrose
4.Malcolm Marshall




Wasim is chosen because of his posessing the greatest variety,being the best exponent of reverse swing and for giving left-arm variety.Mcgrath for posessing more control and intelligence than any paceman.Ambrose for his phenomenal accuracy and disconcerting bounce.Marshall for possesing every ingredient of a perfect paceman be it speed,movement or variation.Thus blends control accuracy,movement and variation in perfect proportion.

Incase of injuries Lillee would replace Marshall,Hadlee would replace Mcgrath,Alan Davidson would replace Wasim Akram and Joel Garner would replace Ambrose.Lillee,Hadlee,Davidson and Garner would be quite a foursome!

I would open with Marshall and Ambrose.Wasim was a genius with the old ball while Mcgrath was simply a metronome.

[Straight Drive]

Holding,Roberts,Garner and Croft.Wont break the world's deadliest and most successful bowling unit.

[Trichromatic]

46 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

Holding,Roberts,Garner and Croft.Wont break the world's deadliest and most successful bowling unit.

Marshall?

[GolGappe]

Ambrose

Marshall

McGrath

Steyn

[Jimmy Cliff]

Zak/Ishant/Yadav/Vinay. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

[rkt.india]

There is no pace quartet without Dale Steyn.

[JourneyMan]

Today: Steyn, Anderson, Starc, Boult

 

 

[LordPrabhzy]

Vinay Koomar

Ashok Dinda

Jaidev Unadfast

Praveen Koomar

 

Comon if this pace battery doesnt strike fear in opposition batsmen's mind then i dunno what will

[rkt.india]

4 hours ago, LordPrabhzy said:

Vinay Koomar

Ashok Dinda

Jaidev Unadfast

Praveen Koomar

 

Comon if this pace battery doesnt strike fear in opposition batsmen's mind then i dunno what will

Dinda never played test so cant include him.  Can add Mithun in place of him.

[Suhaan]

Mitchell Johnson(version 2013),Glenn Mcgrath,Steyn,Anderson/Walsh

[Lala]

Akhtar

Bret Lee

Walsh

Stayne

[Temujin Khaghan]

Conventional Swing/ reverse swing

Speed

Seam

Hit the deck/ Line and length/ workhorse stamina

 

These are the 4 ingredients of pace bowling. I will take one from each category.

 

Wasim, backup steyn 

Holding, backup waqar 

McGrath, backup asif

Ambrose, backup Walsh 

...

 

[Straight Drive]

Marshall?

Nope, Marshall was not at all in the initial pace quartet. Roberts, Holding, Croft and Garner played most together for few years.


Roberts was the first one who was then joined by Holding.

After few years, Garner and Croft made debut in same match.

Croft was the first who went out amongst those 4.

Marshall was the last amongst them to join who emerged as another ATG great bowler from WI. Iirc







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[Tattieboy]

4 hours ago, Straight Drive said:

Nope, Marshall was not at all in the initial pace quartet. Roberts, Holding, Croft and Garner played most together for few years.


Roberts was the first one who was then joined by Holding.

After few years, Garner and Croft made debut in same match.

Croft was the first who went out amongst those 4.

Marshall was the last amongst them to join who emerged as another ATG great bowler from WI. Iirc







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I would agree with you that those 4 were the most fearsome Quartet that cricket has seen but they didn't play together as much as people think .

During the period 1977 ( when Croft and Garner joined ) to say 1983 various other quicks played as well.

Marshall ( debut 1978)

Sylvester Clarke 78

Wayne Daniel 76

Norbert Philip 78

Vanburn Holder ( finished 79) 

[velu]

8 minutes ago, Tattieboy said:

I would agree with you that those 4 were the most fearsome Quartet that cricket has seen but they didn't play together as much as people think .

During the period 1977 ( when Croft and Garner joined ) to say 1983 various other quicks played as well.

Marshall ( debut 1978)

Sylvester Clarke 78

Wayne Daniel 76

Norbert Philip 78

Vanburn Holder ( finished 79) 

 

in some documentary  i saw one english player said something like patrik patterson looked like a devil , ran like a devil and bowled like a devil  

[velu]

off-topic:-

 

OP created this thread at 5.07 and was last online at 5.10 ( yesterday )  

 

[Tattieboy]

3 minutes ago, velu said:

 

in some documentary  i saw one english player said something like patrik patterson looked like a devil , ran like a devil and bowled like a devil  

He was but I would say Sylvester Clarke was the most brutal of all them 

[Tattieboy]

10 minutes ago, velu said:

 

in some documentary  i saw one english player said something like patrik patterson looked like a devil , ran like a devil and bowled like a devil  

Story for you Velu, my mate opened the batting for Scotland against Lancashire and Colin Croft snapped his bat in two fending off a bouncer, he tells the tale that he played Colin adrift with a pencil 

[velu]

8 minutes ago, Tattieboy said:

Story for you Velu, my mate opened the batting for Scotland against Lancashire and Colin Croft snapped his bat in two fending off a bouncer, he tells the tale that he played Colin adrift with a pencil 

 

 

 

[Tattieboy]

4 minutes ago, velu said:

 

 

 

Yeah Brian Close and John Edrich facing Michael Holding , that was very very brutal , Close was a very brave cricketer, batting and fielding at very close short leg , probably to brave for his own good. He was Botham's mentor