@Kunal Puthran speed matters too . Most of the bowlers you mentioned are already gone abbas , asif , bhuvneshwar whereas Southee and Broad are wayyy faster than mcgrath at least 15km/hr faster. Mcgrath bowls at 125-130 , These bowlers bowl at 135-145. Current top bowlers all have great speed --> bumrah , starc , boult , cummins , rabada , archer
Just have to admire his discipline to his craft. Such a smooth effortless run 🏃 up and bowling action delivered from so close to the umpire and in line with the stumps, with an amazing ability to land the ball in the exact same spot every ball of an over, always leaving the batsman in doubt.
Was Quick aswell, or as they say nip. Speed gun didnt show true speed of the ball because it traveled more distance than the slingier more sliding actions.
I thought i was the only one that noticed. Niel Mckenzie was not out at all. He's a tall guy, was on his toes and that ball would have missed all three stumps and the bails. Venkat gave a howler there
They are way better than some umpires of current era where a batsman would have crossed the grease and stumps too while running but they will simply go to desicion pending
You’re only seeing the dismissal deliveries He sets up the batsman with previous deliveries by changing the pace and swing If you have seen his bowling spells he sets up with out swings and brings one back in, only difference is that he does it with extreme accuracy
@@ImranKhan-he8bd Impact does matter as the it counts where the ball has hit the batsman. If the ball hits the batsman outside off stump which says the ball is going to clearly miss the stump
@@virtueclutchgod1355 go get your LBW knowledge corrected. When a batsman doesn't offer a shot n the ball hits him on any part of the body except for the gloves, then the point of impact doesn't matter whether it is outside the line of off stump or not. The only consideration the umpire has to give in this scenario is whether the ball would go on to hit the stumps or not. Point of impact is considered when batsman tries to offer a shot.
The only pacer whose decreasing speed with age did not matter. The fact that he pitched 6 deliveries at the exact same spot and got it to swing in or out randomly was nothing less than a superpower.
Being an Indian, I used to dread McGrath bowling during Ind VS Aus bowling. His bowling looked unplayable to me. Definitely one of the best of his era.
@@RahulSharma-tq1tl No...most were out. When you don't offer the shot then it doesn't matter if the ball hit in line or not.The only thing matters is whether it was going to hit the stumps.
The secreat of greatness of mackgrath was this indecisiveness he created continuously in the oppositions batsmens about whether to play or leave his deliveries. Absolutely true legend for 15+ years of his carrier during 1990s & first decade of 21st century to
One of the all time greats, without any doubt! Must have missed a lot of wickets because of umpiring. But some of these he got in his favor are absolute howlers and would have been overturned had DRS existed.
What most people don't realise is that due to McGrath's insane accuracy and past track record, umpires will favour him, most of us would also give those decisions!
If no shot has been offered by the batsman, impact of the ball doesn't matter. It's a rule, so everything was a perfect decision, expect one that missed.
Agree with you Prakash - even if you leave and it hits you outside off, it still would have to go on to hit the stumps but for the leg. The one to Pietersen was clearly going to miss wide, the one to Harmison was shown by DRS to go well over the top. Half of the LBW decisions I say would be not out on review, I think umpires have a tendency to "punish" batters who make bad leaves, just as a general matter.
Watching McGrath bowling again, laser focused on the top of off stump; while Richie commentates the game really takes you back to the golden age of Australian cricket.
The people who saying bad umpiring,don't even know the simple rule that impact doesn't matter if shot is not offered. NOTE-There are a few bad decisions also
Yeah, except there were plenty that weren't even hitting the stumps. The LBW rule clearly states it must have been going to hit the stumps were it not for the batsman blocking it.
He knows that batsman will be definately miss this one And he bowled in his right area Then finally he struck again N again Master of swing bowling He and James Anderson my all time greatest overseas player ❤️❤️🙏🙏
In this day and age Drs would have had atleast 4 easily turned down. The assumption that padding non-chalantly offering no shot has been used excruciatingly by umpires as a pre-cursor to raise their fingers. Well obviously not that close anymore with drs evening out the dice
The Wall(Dravid), Kallis, Laxman and Tendulkar were the only batsmen who could play well against McGrath.. and all of them knew very well about their off stump.. thus they became great batsmen. Their battle were like 50-50 against McGrath !! McGrath dominated rest of the world without any problems !!
@@pchandrashekhar3122 I know you're emotional about Indian batsmen like rest of us are. I just qouted what Dravid said. Everyone knows they are great batsmen. You don't need to come defending them. Btw, tendulkar averaged below 25 in both tests and ODI against McGrath. So no, he was not very great against McGrath.
@@pchandrashekhar3122 yeah well you did forget Lara and all batsmen you mentioned above were not comfortable against McGrath so the battle was more like 65 to 35 in McGrath’s favour
@@vaibhawsingh01 he was great till 2003 World Cup league match, during tennis elbow most bowlers had got him, Asif, Sohaibh, Murali. I remember his century in Chennai when Mcgrath was bowling to him. Mcgrath pointed to the crowd and said they should shut up. Sachin kept looking at him. Then McGrath bowled a bouncer, he ducked and McGrath challenged him to hook. Sachin didn't; react. As there was heat, Mgrath was getting tired. He showed shoulder dropping at one point. Sachin pushed to deep mid-off but didn't take single (Sanjay Manjrekar said surprisingly he has not gone for single). Mcgrath bowled a looser outside the off-stump which Sachin cut/or drove off for a boundary. Then Manjrekar understood and said he saw that bowler was tired and scored a boundary. Besides, he whacked McGrath in 1996 World Cup, in 2001 Nairobi like Lara hard never done. Lara would score big hundreds against Australia by seeing thru Mgrath spell and then attacking Stuart Mcgill, Colin Miller.
@@kundankanan9074 Brilliant Kundan...ah.1996 Tendulkar....wooww...even 1999 is Brilliant...in Aus they gave him out too many time umpiring errors....but Tendulkar was peak...Agreed McGrath is McGrath....he is a robot. But Tendulkar is a thrill a minute machine.....Ask McGrath to match that....we.cant only see stats....what about Thrill. Huh?? Isn't it...thanks Kundan for writing wo derfully welll...loved reading it :)
We all talk about art of swing and seam....Wasim and waqar....but look at the Mann....how he pitches the ball...where he pitches the ball and the action.....it's certainly masterclass..... my favourite bowler....even the best batters in the world has no idea how to play him..... absolutely maestro..... Love you McGrath
From an Englishman, so much admiration for Glenn McGrath as a bowler and person. He really got under our skin with his predictions of what he was going to do to our batsmen, but that's putting his money where his mouth is, and the vast majority of the time, he was right! As with Warnie, every ball was an examination for the batsman. I must admit, I was never so pleased about a sporting injury as when McGrath trod on the ball before the Edgbaston 05 Test. England winning that series was an incredible achievement, but I doubt if it would've been possible had McGrath not missed two Tests, and wasn't fully fit in another. A true all-time great.
As I was growing up I was a fervent South African cricket fan. As a seamer I idolised the likes of Allan Donald, Shaun Pollock, Makhaya Ntini. et al... But as I've gotten older I've found that, while I still love our seamers, Glenn McGrath is by far my favourite seamer of all time. Everything from his action to the fact that he could hit the same spot on a pitch 6 balls out of 6 will never not seem incredible to me.
Three bowlers who played around same time Pollock McGrath and vaas.common thing between them was none of them had express pace but they had exquisite control on line and length.
@@KaranSharma-lm6eh bhai cricket ke laws pehle dekh le. Shoulder before wicket is not out. Only leg before is out. So in the case of Sachin , umpire got it wrong. Not for the first time.
Simply put, McGrath is one of the most lethal bowler EVER to lace up a pair of boots. For me, He is the GOAT. Also, IDGAF if some of those LBW decisions would have been overturned if DRS existed then. As it would have been the same case for all the other bowlers too at the given time. People can have other opinions so each to their own. But *Mcgrath will always be my favorite bowler* .
He won battles many times against the best batsmen of his era irrespective of where matches were played. Greatest player rather just a greatest bowler alone.
