Who are the top 5 English bowlers ever acc. to you?

Question

Who are the top 5 English bowlers ever acc. to you?

Answer 1

Jim Laker

Sydney Barnes

Bob Willis

Fred Trueman

Ian Botham

in no order

Answer 2

Harold Larwood.

Fred Trueman.

Jim Laker.

Hedley Verity.

Ian Botham.

It would be an attack with plenty of variety.  However; note that there is no one recent on the list.  Though Andrew Flintoff could make it on in future, if he stays injury free; and off the booze.

Answer 3

1. Jim Laker

2. Ian Botham

3. Andrew Flintoff

4. Darren Gough

5. Monty Panesar

Answer 4

Jim Laker

Andrew Flintoff ( without injury)

Ian Botham

Monty Panesar

Hoggard

Answer 5

1. Fred Trueman

2. Goerge Lehmann

3. Stephen Harmison

4. H.Larwood

5. Jim Laker

Answer 6

In no particular order:

Fred Trueman

Jim Laker

Tony Lock

Alec Bedser

Sidney Barnes

Answer 7

Thought of quantifying the career performances of English Test Match bowlers and give them marks on a 0-100 scale. This will indicate the relative bowling performance 'per match'. It will enable you to relatively place one bowler above another.

We should eliminate those players who have played less than 20 matches (some great players were left out, sorry) and select the best from the remaining. There are 108 such test match bowlers.

My evaluation / selection:

1. Sydney Barnes (87.2)

2. Freddie Trueman (76.3)

3. Alec Bedser (73.7)

4. Robert Peel (70)

5. John Snow (68.2)

The other important bowlers in the order of merit are: 6. David Allen (65.3), 7. Angus Fraser (62.4), 8. Dominic Cork (62.3), 9. James Laker (61.5), 10. JB Statham (61.1), 11. Tony Lock (60.5), 12. Harmison (60.3), 13. Caddick (59.8), 14. Bob Willis (59.5), 15. Ian Botham (59.5), 16. Darren Gough (59.3), 17. Maurice Tate (59.2), 18. Matthew Hoggard (59.2), 19. Derek Underwood (57.6), 20. GR Dilley (57.1), 21. Panesar (56.9), 22. JK Lever (56.8), 23. James Anderson (56.8), 24. Hedley Verity (56.8), 25. DVP Wright (56.5), 26. Fred Titmus (55.2), 27. DJ Brown (55.1), 28. GG Arnold (55), 29. Harold Larwood (54.9), 30. JH Wardle (54.6), 31. Bill Voce (54.5), 32. Neil Foster (52.3), 33. Chris Old (51.6), 34. John Briggs (51.2), 35. Devon Malcolm (49.6), 36. Chris Lewis (49.4), 37. GOB Allen (49.2), 39. Mike Hendrik (49), 40. Phil Tufnell (48.2), 41. Philip DeFreitas (47.3), 42. Andrew Flintoff (46.9), 43. Barry Knight (45.5), 44. Patrick Pocock (45.4), 45. Ashley Giles (44), 46. Phil Edmonds (42.6), 47. Tony Greig (40), 48. RDB Croft (40), 49. JE Emburey (38.2), 50. Derek Pringle (37.7), 51. Ray Illingworth (37.1), 52. Trevor Bailey (36.5), 53. William Barnes (36.4), 54. GH Hirst (34), 55. FR Brown (33.9), 56. George Ulyett (31.4), 57. Craig White (31.1), 58. Wilfred Rhodes (30.7), 59. Geoff Miller (29.5), 60. RW Barber (28.2), 61. John Douglas (27.7), 62. Leonard C Braund (27.3), 63. Basil D'Oliveira (22.4), 64. Frank Woolley (22.4), 65. Norman Yardley (20.7), 66. Edward Dexter (19.9), 67. Bill Edrich (17.7), 68. Francis S Jackson (16.8), 69. Walter Hammond (15.9), 70. John W Hearne (15.6), 71. Dennis B Close (13.7), 72. Robert Wyatt (6.9), 73. Ken Barrington (6.8), 74. William G Grace (6.5), 75. Graeme Hick (6.4), 76. Peter Parfitt (6.3), 77. Paul Collingwood (6.1), 78. Denis Compton (5.7), 79. Thomas Hayward (5.7), 80. Peter Willey (5.6), 81. Graham Gooch (3.6), 82. Mark Butcher (3.4), 83. Maurice Layland (2.6), 84. Peter Richardson (1.8), 85. Reginald Simpson (1.7), 86. Geoffrey Boycott (1.6), 87. Michael Vaughan (1.5), 88. Mark Ramprakash (1.5), 89. Kevin Pietersen (1.4), 90. Michael Gatting (1.2), 91. Brian Luckhurst (0.9), 92. Geoffrey Pullar (0.8), 93. Keith Fletcher (0.8), 94. Leonard Hutton (0.6), 95. Cyril Washbrook (0.6), 96. MJK Smith (0.5), 97. Ian Bell (0.5), 98. JB Hobbs (0.4), 99. James Parks (0.4), 100. Arthur Lilley (0.3), 101. Michael Atherton (0.3), 102. Marcus Trescothick (0.3), 103. Charles Barnett (0.3), 104. Thomas Graveney (0.3), 105. David Gower (0.2), 106. GRJ Roope (0.2), 107. Allan Lamb (0.2), 108. Elias Hendren (0.2).

Hope you will like my answer.

Answer 8

1)  Ian Botham.

2)  R.G.D. Willis.

3)  F.S. Trueman

4)  D.L. Underwood.

5)  J.B.Satham.

Answer 9

Jim Laker

Sydney Barnes

Bob Willis

Fred Trueman

Ian Botham

Answer 10

1. Sydney Barnes

2. George Lohmann

3. Jim Laker

4. Fred Trueman

5. Ian Botham