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Agreed. I do not understand how anyone could equate Brett Lee with the Thommo of the mid-1970s and those two golden series. Unbelievable. Looks like Rewired has fallen for the sucker punch of Thommo of the present on the sportsmen's night circuit rather than the demi-god who terrorised the WI...

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I also hasten to add that one of my school mates once faced MM when he was playing district cricket here in Melbourne. He told me that he almost became incontinent on the spot. He was a tailender. He survived the three balls - by the barest of margins - and then thankfully the other batsmen up...

Croft was not there for long - and of course he took the blood money to go to South Africa - but I always remember him for bowling so wide of the stumps when bowling over the wicket at RH batsmen - the aim being to angle it in at the batsmen. Looking at the list in the poll, it adds resonance...

Indeed he was. Roberts was a quiet bugger but he was pure venom on his day. That famous ball he bowled to Hookes was a brute of a ball.

Comrades, there is an embarrassment of riches to choose from. I have included the likes of Ian Bishop, Sylvester Clarke and Patrick Patterson as 'Other'; while they were unplayable on their day, longevity was not theirs. To my mind, while I cannot deny the artistry of Malcolm Marshall ("do I...

Mate are you really going to say to your grand kids "and guess what- I saw McDermott and Hughes bowl!" compared with "I saw Thommo destroy the Poms and Windies, assisted not a little by D K Lillee." I know which camp I am in, averages or no averages.

Mate, I am just passing on what they said. I daresay that Thommo's unique javelin-throwing style is in the mix too. It might have somewhat subverted those fundamental physiological factors that you rightly mention above. Larwood claims in his autobiography that he was timed at his peak...

Agreed, and as Viv Richards relates in Cricket in the 70s, Lawrence Rowe stopped his customary whistling when facing Thommo at his peak . . . . . . . . . . .

here is the source of the claim: Competing in a 1978 fast bowling contest that included many of the leading bowlers in the world, Thomson came first with a delivery clocked at 147.9 km/h, ahead of Michael Holding (141.3 km/h) and Imran Khan (139.7 km/h). In 1975 during a Test match, he was...

T42 well done - much better expressed than the original OP !!!

Stig another six from your good self. Rod Marsh has gone on record to say that in his estimation, Thommo was bowling up to 180 clicks in his prime. There are also stories of hitting the sight-screen with the once bounce

Entertaining is a pejorative word. Try ferocious.

Stig - great video. Did you see the reaction on Rod Marsh's face after the third ball? And that fourth ball was a rocket. Sure, there are lots of ways to skin a cat. Hadlee targetted offstump and magisterially bowl leg cutters for the entire day with his amazing control. But the Thomson of...

Gents, having just seen part of Fire in Babylon, I concur with the producers of the film that the genesis of the West Indian dynasty lay in the mauling they received at the hands of Australia in 1975 / 1976. Moreover, they show that incredible ball by Thommo that reared up at Clive Lloyd. I...