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Glenn McGrath, Dale Steyn better bowlers than me - James Anderson


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James Anderson, who surpassed Glenn McGrath's tally of 563 Test wickets at The Oval to become the most prolific seamer in Tests, has rated the Australian as a "much better bowler" than himself.

 

"I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty," Anderson wrote in a column on Fox Sports.

Anderson attributed McGrath's superiority to various factors that he felt made the Australian a complete bowler.

 

"I may have gone past his wicket tally but I honestly believe McGrath's bounce, relentless accuracy, aggression and ability to move the ball made him superior. He had everything. And it is not a random, top-of-the-head assessment, either. I've been studying all of the great fast bowlers since I was about eight years old."

 

While the top two wicket-takers among seamers have tormented batsmen with different skill sets, Anderson drew similarities between his attitude and McGrath's.

"I also loved McGrath's attitude," Anderson said. "He had plenty of a snarl on the field - a bit like me, I suppose - and was super-competitive. He hated giving away runs or not taking wickets."

 

Describing McGrath as a "cracking fellow" with whom he had shared the occasional beer, Anderson said listening to the Australian talk about the way he prepared for games had helped him. One of McGrath's training methods that Anderson incorporated into his own preparations was bowling with an old ball, in order to equip himself to be able to succeed in unfavourable conditions.

"I heard him say once that he practised for when the ball didn't swing,"

 

Anderson said. "So if it did swing, it was a bonus. That philosophy has been a big part of my development. You so often see bowlers pick out a lovely new ball from the bag at nets and it looks great when it swings in the air and nips off the seam with batsmen playing and missing. What about when the ball is 60 overs old, the sun is blazing down, the pitch is flat and there's not a hint of movement? So, at practice, I often take an old ball that looks like it's been chewed by a dog and work on variations and aiming for the top of off stump. That's the quickest way to improve your skills."


 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/24660458/glenn-mcgrath-dale-steyn-better-bowlers-james-anderson

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10 minutes ago, Nikola said:

Asif was surely better than Anderson in all conditions. He used to get movement on many pitches but he destroyed his carrier on own so can't blame anyone else.

Asif was not better than the post 2010 version of Jimmy.  Asif was good when there was swing on offer and absolutely deadly on green pitches, wearing pitches etc. But on flat tracks he struggled. His record in Australia, UAE and Pakistan shows that. 

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42 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Asif was not better than the post 2010 version of Jimmy.  Asif was good when there was swing on offer and absolutely deadly on green pitches, wearing pitches etc. But on flat tracks he struggled. His record in Australia, UAE and Pakistan shows that. 

Asif was not a swing bowler.  he was a seam bowler. He was a bowler of McGrath mold though slower than McGrath.

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1 hour ago, bhakum20 said:

Really? I thought he could seam the ball on flat pitches too due to the wobble. E.g. that test when India had a target of 599 runs in PAK and asif was bowling 80mph off-spinners. Was that pitch lively, because when we were bowling it looked anything but

No. Wobbly seam does mean ball will seam on flat pitches too. Yes that pitch had a lot of grass.  IN the first innings, it was green and both teams struggled with the bat, but by second innings grass dried but grass was still there which helped him seam the ball. Our bowlers were poor in second innings.  it was not a 500 pitch.  

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52 minutes ago, mishra said:

Anderson is being brutally honest.

He is best new ball bowler and highest wicket taker but thats about it. 

He knows there are quite a lot if places where along with his skill, yard or two extra pace is needed to succeed. If only he had that he would have been regarded as best bowler in History of cricket.

 

Anderson was quick in 2007. He was the quickest bowler from both sides in that series was hitting 90-91 mph but then he never had the stamina to sustain it.

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14 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Anderson was quick in 2007. He was the quickest bowler from both sides in that series was hitting 90-91 mph but then he never had the stamina to sustain it.

During his early International   career, bowler do not know their own body and stetch it. Here , another very honest article, where he talks about 90mph, effect of bowling long overs on his body

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2018/01/02/james-anderson-exclusive-pain-fast-bowler-affects-normal-life/amp/

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Career summary
GroupingAscending Span Mat Inns Overs Mdns Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 5 10  
                               
in Australia 2006-2018 18 34 720.3 181 2126 60 5/43 7/127 35.43 2.95 72.0 1 0 view innings
in England 2003-2018 83 159 3049.3 806 8745 368 7/42 11/71 23.76 2.86 49.7 21 3 view innings
in India 2006-2016 10 18 309.5 71 870 26 4/40 6/79 33.46 2.80 71.5 0 0 view innings
in New Zealand 2008-2018 7 12 255.0 58 853 26 5/73 7/130 32.80 3.34 58.8 1 0 view innings
in South Africa 2005-2016 8 14 315.1 55 998 25 5/63 8/161 39.92 3.16 75.6 1 0 view innings
in Sri Lanka 2003-2012 4 7 135.4 30 448 11 5/72 5/98 40.72 3.30 74.0 1 0 view innings
in U.A.E. 2012-2015 6 12 216.0 63 452 22 4/17 6/69 20.54 2.09 58.9 0 0 view innings
in West Indies 2009-2015 7 11 248.2 68 648 26 6/42 7/77 24.92 2.60 57.3 1 0

 

Jimmy only has a great strike rate at home. Every other place it takes him at least 57 balls to take a single wicket.He's basically toothless in all but 4 countries, and in 3 of the 4 he is only average. At the home of the 3 other big test teams, Aus/Ind/SA, he doesn't do anything it seems. It's hard to call him "great" with such a record. He is good at best. 

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