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Dale Steyn, Stuart Broad, Ravichandran Ashwin, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins. All great and unique in their own way.

All these players, both batters and bowlers excelled in all formats of the game. That makes them special and separates them from the rest.

@XFactor

Again, all from NZ , SA, India or Australia. Nothing in the medium to long term is going to come from half of the cricketing world: WI, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe or Bangladesh

all those batsmen, with the exception of Kohli and AB struggled when confronted by challenges that would have been bread and butter in the 1980s and 1990s. Only AB was able to cope, for example when Mitchell Johnson carved a swathe of destruction across both England and South Africa and scared Graeme Smith into retirement. Joe Root was petrified of Johnson. There were at least six bowlers in the 90scwho presented the physical threat that Johnson did during those series: Curtly Ambrose, Ian Bishop Allan Donald, Devon Malcolm, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. England and South Africa encountered one really nasty fast bowler and they collapsed. The 80s had even more of those pacemen because international legislation had not cracked down off the bouncer

@Jumpstart

It is rare for a nation to be just lucky with top talent. it is a long‑term investment through a combination of culture, investment in facilities, training and coaching. Nothing happens magically.

@XFactor

For me only Dale Steyn an James Anderson as a swing bowler could make the cut an mix it with greats of the past.....yuh surely can't think Cummins an Hazelwood better than Mcgrath or Starc as a left hand swing bowler better than Wasim Akram ..an no idea why yuh have Ashwin in the mix up against Warne & Murali....I'm thinking ur of a younger generation an hence didn't see much of the Lara/Shiv era!!

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Anderson, to me has been fortunate that county cricket teams can only field two overseas professionals, meaning most of the cricket teams touring England will not be used to his type of bowling. Viv would have beat him out of existence because Viv spent every summer in England playing for Somerset and later Glamorgan. That’s also the reason Brian Lara could have scored 700+ runs across 6 tests in England in 1995, which nobody save Steve smith has done since. Anderson wasn’t even as good as Angus Fraser, English cricket was just so insular that he was protected

i do agree with you that Cummins and Hazelwood are in no league with Glenn McGrath. But then again, I think McGrath is as good as any of the great West Indian pacers we have witnessed. He was a genuinely difficult bowler to face.

@Jumpstart

I dnt take ur comparison between Angus Fraser an Anderson serious....its complete nonsense on every level!!😀

@CCW

do you know angus Fraser has four five wicket halls in the West Indies, and not bowling to shai hope and Kraig brathwaite, I mean bowling to Viv, Lara, hooper, shiv, jimmy Adams. Anderson only has two. In fact Anderson’s career average is only marginally better at 26.46 than Fraser’s 27.32. And Fraser’s average in Australia is better than Anderson’s. Fraser also has two five wicket hauls in Australia across 8 tests in Australia. Anderson only has one despite playing 21 tests in the country. When England won in 2010/11, the bowlers who did the damage were Steven Finn, Chris tremlett and Tim Bresnan. Not anderson. Anderson was well protected by the protectionism of the English county system