Steyn vs McGrath

I think this question can now be asked as Steyn has 250 odd wickets at 23 with a strike rate of 40 all over the world against diff teams, at the age of 28.

Who is the better bowler as things stand and a prediction on who you think will be the better bowler when Steyn retires.

And don't give me any of the "they're too different to compare" sh*t. Who would you rather have in your team.

My heart says McGrath for both, my head says Steyn.

McGrath dominated Lara and SRT

There is no-one around in their league.

Steyn bowls more jaffas than McGrath

I will still go with McGrath for reliability

No contest - McGrath every time.

Is the more pertinent question:

Steyn or Donald?

Well Mcgrath had over 550 test wickets, that is quite amazing for a fast bowler.
I personally don't even have 1 test wicket(bowling fast that is).

re: JGK's observation:

Yes.

But better still than that (only slightly less futile) comparison, is that Steyn and Donald would have made a mighty twin spearhead in tandem.

Yes they would.

What's the word on Philander apart from having the greatest name since Baptiste?

Taipan led us to believe he was a dibbly dobbling medium pacer. But he looked reasonably good last night (albeit in helpful conditions)

Yeah. Just checked his FC record. Not too shabby. Though that's fairly relative nowadays.

20 with the ball and 27 with the bat

Those numbers would do macco and paddles proud.

Looks like his figures had been gradually trending the right way too. Be nice to have the luxury to be able to develop a bowler rather than throwing them in every time someone at CA or in the pressbox gets a hardon.

Sure the conditions were conducive, but you still have to put the ball in the right spot and he did that.

I too was puzzled after the details of his FC flashed up on Fox last night. Mighty impressive numbers and why did it take so long to get him into the team.

and it would be hard to beat* his first delivery as a better debut ball

(*I am sure SBBOT has a list of people who have taken wickets with their debut balls)

Didn't Elmer recently do it?