SA Footy

Following on from the International Cricket thread, who is the most unusual bowler you have seen or heard of bowling?

Sri Lanka are currently bowling Sangakarra

Any other weird bowling changes? keepers or unusual batsmen?

Michael Slater has a Test wicket to his name.

Ian Healy has been known to do some good impersonations of Merv Hughes etc.

rod_rooster wrote:Michael Slater has a Test wicket to his name.

Mark Taylor got one as well in the same innings. David Boon took a wicket against Australia A in that series in 1994/95.

Mark Boucher also has a Test wicket to his name.

Matt Hayden got a bowl when Dravid and Laxman batted all day in India.

Interceptor wrote:Matt Hayden got a bowl when Dravid and Laxman batted all day in India.

Yeah

Ponting, Hayden, Slater and Langer all bowled that day.

Interceptor wrote:Matt Hayden got a bowl when Dravid and Laxman batted all day in India.

I would love to see footage of that, what are the figures?

max walker....

hearts on fire wrote:

Interceptor wrote:Matt Hayden got a bowl when Dravid and Laxman batted all day in India.

I would love to see footage of that, what are the figures?

Hayden- 6 Overs 0/24
Ponting- 12 Overs 0/41
Langer- 1 Over 0/3
Slater- 2 Overs 0/4

there is footage on youtube with haydos bowling, i remember seeing it ages ago...

mark boucher for me....
had to wait almost 100 tests (a record at the time) to get his first test wicket.

Don Bradman has a Test bowling average of 36.

bowled 160 balls in his career taking 2 wickets for 72 runs with a best bowling of 1/8.


also has 36 first class wickets to his name @ 37.97

Victoria had a couple with very strange actions in the late 60s/early 70s. First was Alan "Froggy" Thomson who bowled like he was doing a highland fling. There would be a flurry of arms and legs, and the ball would shoot out from somewhere. He was highly effective short term, and even played for Australia, but once batsmen got used to him, he disappeared from the scene. Also umpired VFL footy.

The other was Bob Bitmead, a spinner who bowled off the wrong foot. once again, very effective short term, toured New Zealand with the Australian 2nd XI, but not seen much after that.

adam gilchrist when he played in the PM's eleven i think it was as captain and didn keep because he had jsut been named vice by memory of the aussie side. he was fielding a bowler got injured so he finished the over of.
who did boucher get out and where did boucher bowl? was AB keepin? how strange!!

1960s Test wicketkeeper Barry Jarman took only one 1st class wicket, that of New Zealand paceman Bob Cunis. Jarman dined out for years on this story as an after dinner speaker. He would say, "Funny name, Cunis ... neither one thing nor the other".

Action wise i think Paul Adams from South Africa would rate very highly in the unusual bowler list.

Aaron Bird?

CoverKing wrote:adam gilchrist when he played in the PM's eleven i think it was as captain and didn keep because he had jsut been named vice by memory of the aussie side. he was fielding a bowler got injured so he finished the over of.
who did boucher get out and where did boucher bowl? was AB keepin? how strange!!

It was in the West Indies in 2004, in a match like this current one in Pakistan. South Africa made 747 and West Indies 500 odd.

CoverKing wrote:adam gilchrist when he played in the PM's eleven i think it was as captain and didn keep because he had jsut been named vice by memory of the aussie side. he was fielding a bowler got injured so he finished the over of.
who did boucher get out and where did boucher bowl? was AB keepin? how strange!!

DJ Bravo c Prince b Boucher 107

MV Boucher 1.2 overs 1/6

AB kept...

Max Van Dissel

Ewen Chatfield from NZ.

Very effective one day bowler though.