Are old blokes of cricket more energetic than the current pals of cricket? The list of TOP 10 bowlers who bowled most deliveries in an innings is comprised of players who played between 30s and 70s. You will not find any bowler who can bowl constantly like them. Nowadays most of the bowlers too much worries about their injury and captains used them with precaution.
Check out list of bowlers who bowled constantly in an innings with most number of balls in the history of Test cricket –
#10 Georg Geary – 486 balls
George Geary, who died at the age of 87 on March 6, 1981, after a long period of ill-health, had been in his day one of the best bowlers in the world and was also one of the last survivors of those who were playing regular county cricket before the Great War. A tall, powerful man, he bowled fast-medium well within his strength, with a short run and a beautifully easy action. His stock ball moved naturally form the off and could be deadly if the wicket helped him, as when he ruined his second benefit, against Warwickshire at Hinckley in 1936, by taking thirteen for 43 (the match produced him £10). He picked up five wickets, conceding 105 runs with 36 medians in 1929 at Melbourne against England.
#9 Sonny Ramadhin – 488 Balls
Ramadhin is probably the most energetic cricketers in this list. He in his second England tour in 1957 bowled 488 balls in 81.2 over, picked five wickets conceding just 135 runs with 25 maidens.
#8 Vinno Mankad – 492 balls
Mulvantrai Mankad, affectionately known to cricketers throughout his life by his schoolboy nickname of Vinoo, died in Bombay on August 21, 1978, aged 61. He was one of the greatest allrounders that India has ever produced. In Tests he scored 2109 runs with an average of 31.47 and took 162 wickets at 32.31. He made five centuries and twice took eight wickets in an innings. Against New Zealand at Madras in 1955-56 he scored 231, and with Pankaj Roy put on 413 for the first wicket, a record for any Test. Mankad bowled 492 deliveries in 82 over against West Indies at Kingston in 1953. He took three wicket conceding 228 runs with 17 maidens.
#7 Haseeb Hasan – 504 balls
In 12 Tests Pakistani offspinner Haseeb Ahsan took 27 wickets at an average close to 50. His best figures came at Chennai in 1960-61, when India piled up 539 and Ahsan took 84-19-202-6. He never bowled in a Test in England for fear that he would be no-balled for throwing, and was actually called against India in the first Test at Bombay in 1960-61. He bowled 504 balls in 84 over, taking 6 wickets conceding 202 run with 19 over maidens.
#6 Bill O’Reilly – 510 Balls
Bill O’Reilly, who died in a Sydney hospital on October 6, 1992, aged 86, was probably the greatest spin bowler the game has ever produced. Bill Tiger O’Reilly was unquestionably one of cricket’s great figures: as a player, as a character and later as a writer on the game. His cricket was proof that spin bowling was not necessarily a gentle art. He was 6ft 2in tall, gripped the ball in his enormous right hand and released it at a pace that could be almost fast-medium. He in 1938 at Oval bowled 510 balls in 85 over, taking 3 wickets, conceding 178 run with 26 maidens.
#5 Fazal Mahmood – 512 balls
Fazal Mahmood, who died on May 30, 2005, aged 78, was Pakistan’s first great bowler, inspiring his country to several famous victories in the 1950s. Tall and handsome, with comptonesque mop of hair that led him to feature in advertisement as Pakistan’s Brycreem Boy, Fazal’s ability to cut and seam the ball at a fair pace led him to be compared- in style and Stamina-to Engalnd’s Alec Bedser. He was especially difficult to handle on the artificial pitches widely used in Pakistan in the 1950’s: Neil Harvey, the great Australian batsman of the time, said that Fazal “could make the ball talk” on matting. In 1958, at Kingston he bowled 512 balls in 85.2 over, taking two wickets conceding 247 run with 20 over maidens against West Indies.
#4 Chuck Fleetwood Smith – 522 Balls
Chuck Fleetwood Smith, who died in a Melbourne hospital on March 16, aged 60, played in Test matches for Australia between 1935 and 1938, taking 42 wickets. His endless bowling figure come against England at The Oval in 1958. He bowled 522 balls in 87 over, taking just one wicket conceding 298 runs with 20 maidens.
#3 Alf Valentine – 552 balls
Akf Valentine, who was died in Orlando, Florida at the age og 74, was a vital cog in the first great West Indian team- the one that that shocked England in 1950 by winning the series 3-1. Valentine, the left arm orthodox bowler, bowled 552 balls in 92 over, took 3 wickets with 49 maidens.
#2 Tom Veivers – 571 balls
Tom Vievers, who emerged from Queensland country cricket, was something of an Australian rarity when picked against South Africa in 1963-64. A conventional offspinner, he has was a type of bowler not seen in the Baggy Geen for some time. In 1964 Australia’s tour of England at Manchester he bolwed 571 ball in 95.1 over, took 3 wicket for 155 run with 36 maidens. He was also a good batsman.
#1. Sonny Ramadhin – 588 balls
Ramadhin was the first East Indian to represent West Indies, was a small neat man whose shirt sleeves were always buttoned at the wrist. He was called up for the famous 1950 tour of England after just two first class matches in Trinidad. He was extremely talented bowler as he could bowl both right arm off breaks and leg breaks with no discernible change of action. In 1957, at Edgbaston Ramadhin bowled 588 ball in 98 over in the second innings of the match, overall he bowled -129 over in the match. Peter May and Colin Cowdrey played him largely with their pads. But, in that first series, he was devastating. He later played in Lancashire for the county and in the leagues and still lives there.
