Top swing bowlers of all time?

Question

We often see the same names mentioned in lists of all-time great bowlers... but I'm not convinced that many of the usual suspects (including early-career Lillee, Hadlee, Donald, McGrath, Ambrose and Holding) WERE that great when it came to pitching the ball up and getting it to move EITHER way in the air (at will). Lindwall, was obviously exemplary, as was Wasim Akram. England's greatest post-war exponent may have been early-career Botham (though Trueman might take issue with that). We're often told Malcolm Marshall was the greatest WI exponent ever. The only recent bowler I think of in these terms is Asif... though the less said about him the better!

Beyond the pure swing bowlers there's the crowd with mastery of the outswinger and Hoggard-like reliance on the leg-cutter for getting the ball to go the other way: Bedser may have been the best, but I'm sure others were devastating when the ball would swing despite not swinging the ball both ways.

Answer 1

mcgrath and  wasim akram

Answer 2

As camera technology improved the swing of waseem and waqar goes down. what its indicates. Mcgrath and Caddick are my picks

Answer 3

You answered it yourself the most part :P

anyway, I think the p**i bowlers till recent past were most effective with the art of swing along with reverse swing. Adding to names you have mentione I'd say Simon Jones & Shane Bond had also used this variety among their bowling armour.

Jones wreck havoc & stunned Aussie batsmen in the Ashes 2005 while Bond has also been great.

Answer 4

I think Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis were both the greatest swing bowlers Waqar also got shear pace but the swing was always there which made him even more lethal. Mohammad Asif was good but he destroyed his own career by doping offences time and again.

Nowdays, there is Ryan SideBottom of England and Praveen Kumar of India who devastated the Aussies in the CB series finals. Last but not the least, the veteran SriLankan Chaminda Vaas will always be there in my list.

Answer 5

1. Wasim Akram

2. Waqar Younis

3. Irfan Pathan

4. Glenn McGrath

5. Mohammed Asif

Answer 6

I would guess that Alec Bedser would rate as one of the best. However, my personal favorite was Terry Alderman.