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[Johnny]

It would be Harmison for me. Devastating pace and bounce coupled with the fact he blatantly has no idea of he's going to bowl you a toe-crushing Yorker or a throat ball.

Devon Malcolm I guess would be another. Rumour has it the first time Malcolm netted at Derbyshire Kim Barnett was left pretty shaken up. Malcolm's first delivery flew past Barnett's nose... It was a full toss... And Barnett was actually in the second net facing the spinners at the time!

I've always found it unsettling facing quick bowlers with no control, feels like an extra level of danger is introduced

[Chad]

Jeff Thomson for me!

[Giraffe208]

Could well have been against me too! A devilishly handsome off-spinner batting in the middle order lol

[PaceKing29]

Waqar Younis for me! probably end up walking with a slight hobble after being struck with those vicious in-swinging yorkers of his in his prime!!

[Twelfth Man]

Lopsy Tsotsobe. In a recent ODI against the Netherlands he was bowling well over 150kph in the nets.

Also I heard the bloke who was running them around and looking after the teams kit saying that he needed the biggest abdo guard he'd ever seen.

Must have been off 15 yards! When he was over at Essex he was bowling under 80mph so unless he's put on some serious pace in the past year or so

[smokem]

Agree with Chad. Definitely Thommo...

[Alvaro]

I've always found it unsettling facing quick bowlers with no control, feels like an extra level of danger is introduced

Sounds like an advert for Andre van Troost!

[Bulldog Cricket]

He gets my vote. Faced him and its was not nice.

[CrickFreak]

Jermaine Lawson and harshal Patel play in our league on Saturday. And on the same team. They are freakin fast!!! And that's without spikes, regular runup etc. I can't even imagine playing Styen, Morkel etc. As someone said, hit the wickets, come back and watch the show

[bruggers100]

A good few years ago, Ian Bishop played for Reigate Priory. We were is the same league and I was still opening the batting that year.   We had a big downpour the night before the game and (un)fortunately the track was soaked in the midlle where water got under the cover.  The umpires deemed the track too dangerous to play on so the game was abandoned before play started.

Admittedly, Bishop wasn't the same after his back injury, and part of me was disappointed not to be able to face him, but the other part of me (and the rest of the team)were quite relieved !

Looking back at it, it was the opportunity to face someone that I would have watched terrorise batsmen on TV and I got robbed of the chance to face him. At the time, I was pooing it !

[Kieron_BT]

Sounds like an advert for Andre van Troost!

Just had a quick read up on this guy as never heard his name mentioned before. He sounds like he could get the ball down the other end!

Rumours of bowling over 100mph consistently?

[Colesy]

Malinga would be horrific to face because of his action/pace/accuracy

Out of all of them, I'd hate to face Mitch Johnson. Bowls 90mph and even he's not sure where it's going the rest of the time. Most of these bowlers named you have a rough idea of where it's going to be.

Give me Steyn over Johnson

[uknsaunders]

Just had a quick read up on this guy as never heard his name mentioned before. He sounds like he could get the ball down the other end!

Rumours of bowling over 100mph consistently?

I don't think it was consistent in either length or line! He was a bit all over the place but very quick for a few years.