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[Buzz]

I wouldn't say Devon Malcolm would be the first name to pop into my head when I thought of intimidatingly fast bowlers

perhaps you weren't at the oval for this then...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHzjsjmmZB0

then again you might have seen this in Aus...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmV0SHj-9Oo&feature=related

[Number4]

That would have been about the same time Atherton was doing a bit of ball tampering wouldn't it???..

No doubt he bowled well and certainly a couple of intimidating balls there but we do have to remember that this was S.A's first real taste of test cricket after the apartheid inspired ban was lifted and some truely awful shots were played which resulted in wickets falling

[langer17]

This is my favourite combination from Brett Lee. Try not wearing a helmet to this, then followed up by a cracker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65QJYubz6l4

[Number4]

Lets be realistic here though Langer as much as we all like to think we are facing fast bowlers how many of us are facing this type of bowling... I would say not many of us here thats for sure

[langer17]

Yet another classic from Brett Lee - This one is even better simply because of who Australia are playing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6KWUqZ8vlc&feature=related

[Simmy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-1oA29fWBo

[steveAt]

Yet another classic from Brett Lee - This one is even better simply because of who Australia are playing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6KWUqZ8vlc&feature=related

Strauss did score a hundred in the second innings to be fair to him though.

On Devon Malcolm, he was quick and aggressive, but often had wayward spells.  If he was more consistent, he'd have been right up there.

[Buzz]

On Devon Malcolm, he was quick and aggressive, but often had wayward spells.  If he was more consistent, he'd have been right up there.

that is another reason why a lid would be imperative!!

[Julesoak]

Funnily enough I am more likely to wear one for spinners. Have a bad habit of top edging sweeps into my face!

[Number4]

The 2 ultimate intimidators

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTaVRuxje80

[Number4]

Funnily enough I am more likely to wear one for spinners. Have a bad habit of top edging sweeps into my face!

Haven't you realised by now that maybe you shouldn't/can't play the sweep shot... lol

[Canners]

Lets be realistic here though Langer as much as we all like to think we are facing fast bowlers how many of us are facing this type of bowling... I would say not many of us here thats for sure

The fact that people on here aren't facing bowlers as quick as Brett Lee etc has no real relevance as the batsman facing the faster bowlers have better techniques and faster reactions, so although us club cricketers aren't facing 90mph bumpers from Lee, a 70mph bouncer to a club cricketer is probably equally as testing

[Buzz]

canners - really it isn't. A short ball at 70mph is a complete longhop...!!
maybe at 78+ at club level - but we don't see much decent short stuff in club cricket - typically it is the pitch that adds the spice rather than the player.

[tim2000s]

canners - really it isn't. A short ball at 70mph is a complete longhop...!!
maybe at 78+ at club level - but we don't see much decent short stuff in club cricket - typically it is the pitch that adds the spice rather than the player.

Most pitches, even at that pace in club cricket barely get above waist height. It's nets where you need the helmet. Hard floor, short balls.

[Number4]

If someone wants to bowl 70mph bouncers at me I believe their figures would get quite expensive... I don't like to brag but the village trundler will agree with me when I say I am quite partial to a short ball and the pull/hook