is this list going from 11 - 1 being the best competitor being number 11?

  Zeeshan Asif on February 4, 2016, 11:00 GMT

I have never seen Malcolm Marshall. But his bowling career average shows his class. Best thing about Malcolm Marshall. He didn't picked wicket only on seaming wickets, he also picked wickets in dead pitches. I have seen some videos of Malcolm Marshall on YouTube. I think he's mostly deceptive fast bowler. Batsmen mostly miss read his delivery because of his height. It's really hard for any batsmen. When they were facing 4 fast bowlers pair, 3 of them were over 6ft and then 4th one comes with short height. Marshal hit deck very hard and also swing bowl in both way, which was his Xfactor.

In my limited knowledge if anyone would have asked me which bowler gave Gooch the most problems, I wouldn't have said Marshall, but I'd have gone for Terry Alderman.

I have spoken to a couple of guys who faced Marshall. Their response when asked if he was genuinely fast was extremely dismissive, in fairly offensive terms, about anyone who said he was'nt. Not the fastest ever, not top 5 fastest, but a genuine fast bowler, People tend to think tall bowlers who make the ball fly through more are quicker, speed guns show up this fallacy.

Whoever did the sound for this clip needs a good talking-to. I'm not sure if the issues were with recording, editing, or mastering, but regardless, it's poor. Still, great to (mostly/almost) hear Gooch waxing poetic over Marshall, who surely was one of the greatest - if not perhaps *the* greatest - fast bowlers every to play the game.

Malcolm Marshall was the most lethal of all fast bowlers.There were paceman quicker,more accurate and more aesthetic but none craftier of more intelligent.No right-arm pace bowler was as creative as Malcolm .Marshall blended the skill of a surgeon with the creativity of a musician,stamina of a workhorse and the agression of a boxer .No bowler ever posessed such mastery in skidding a cricket ball which at times produced unplayable slithering bounce.Marshall could bowl and outswinger and inswinger with the same action making it often impossible for the batsmen to read.Malcolm' strike rate of 46.7 and average of 20.94 is better than greats like Lillee,Mcgrath,Hadlee.or Akram.Statistically Marshall.In games won Marshall had a better average than any post-war quickie.Considering he palyed amonst 3 of the best ever fast bowlers those figures are phenomenal.No bowler ever in a series in England supassed Marshall's peformance in 1988 when he took 35 wickets bowling more at fast-medium.

Malcolm marshall is not fast bowler and he is not that fast. But fast really do not mean speed here though. He was deceptive. Because of his action he can change length last minute after batsman made his move. He is master of length more than speed. His ball always dips on length. All the balls. Only waqar younis able to have that kinda dip. He has best technique for the fast bowler. Not even wasim akram. Wasim akram can make ball talk but inorder to get wicket you really have to have full mastery of length. Because of his action , his bouncers were life threatening because he delivers ball so late that batsman really do not have time to adjust. Malcolm marshall was quick. I always felt quickness is better than pure speed. I watched old videos of malcolm marshall now and see how batsman were scared of him. I give edge to malcolm marshall over akram because marshall was more scary. Akram with all god given skills , big show off than assasin.