Shaun Tait-Potential to be the fastest ever?

[Pup Clarke]

He may become a decent ODI option like Lee.....but I just can't see him being all that great at test level.

Other way around IMO.Might turn into a useful test bowler as he will get away more with his inconsistensies.At one day level however he might go for a few to many.

 

[Richard]

Problem with Tait is his lack of consistency......I have very serious doubts as to whether he can produce those kinds of performances on aregular basis......and particularay so at test level.

And yet his domestic record suggests it's far from impossible for him to use said consistency...

 

[social]

They are good enough to tell me that he wasn't bowling at 99mph.

So how does that account for the fact that every other bowler on show bowled within his normal soeed range?

Did Tait break the gun or something?

Lee looked positively medium pace beside Tait and if he was bowling high 140s then it's perfectly reasonable to believe that Tait reached 160

Every bit of feedback from the fc scene implied that Tait was the quickest thing out there - he proved it

Now he just has to be consistently accurate

 

[Richard]

Other way around IMO.Might turn into a useful test bowler as he will get away more with his inconsistensies.At one day level however he might go for a few to many.

Not possible. In ODI cricket, as everyone but everyone knows, wickets are all that matter, and you can go for 75 off 10 overs but if you get 4 wickets you've done well because your average after that game would be less than 20. I repeat - wickets are ALL that matters.

(NOTE: IRONY!)

 

[social]

Problem with Tait is his lack of consistency......I have very serious doubts as to whether he can produce those kinds of performances on aregular basis......and particularay so at test level.

He may become a decent ODI option like Lee.....but I just can't see him being all that great at test level.

Where's your evidence for this?

His fc record is a model of consistent success

 

[Smudge]

I think some people here owe Mr Tait an apology - today was very high quality as well as being extremely quick.

First time I've seen him bowl this season

Hmmm...

 

[Richard]

Eh?

 

[Smudge]

He’s suggesting some people owe Tait an apology after (myself included) criticised his accuracy against England, yet this is the first time he’s seen him bowl this season so obviously has no idea how erratic Tait was on Friday. Touch hypocritical if you ask me.

 

[Richard]

Ah, yeah, I get it.

Surely he didn't need to watch that game to realise how wayward he was, though...?

 

[social]

He’s suggesting some people owe Tait an apology after (myself included) criticised his accuracy against England, yet this is the first time he’s seen him bowl this season so obviously has no idea how erratic Tait was on Friday. Touch hypocritical if you ask me.

I wasnt referring to criticism of his performance against Eng - I was referring to those (myself included) who've doubted his ability to be successful at the highest level.

Yesterday proved that he can be "IF" he bowls like that consistently.

This is not a guy like Maharoof who bowled medium pace dollies against a poor WI and took six wickets in a performance that was totally contrary to his overall record.

Tait bowled at speeds up to 160 clicks and went for 2.5 runs per over on a wicket where virtually everyone else went for 6.

Moreover, having just watched his performance v Eng, it wasnt that bad - at his pace, virtually everything that goes towards fine leg or third man is a 4. It reminded me of a Brett Lee performance but Tait is only 23 and is literally 4 or 5 years out of sub-districts (that's about 4th grade standard to the uninformed)

 

[Richard]

Yesterday proved that he can be "IF" he bowls like that consistently.

Seriously - anyone knows that someone who bowls like that can be successful.

What yesterday proved is that Tait can do it.

Once.

We wait to see how long it is before he does it again. It may be his next game. It may be 7 games down the line.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

I reckon Tait maxed out at about 95mph, nothing more than that.

So why was nobody else being clocked up then?

If Clark was bowling 140+ and Lee 150+, obviously you could argue that the gun was being geneous (as they sometimes are), but every other bowler was being measured at normal pace while Tait was consistently above 150kph throughout his first two spells. Did Tait bribe the guy who was setting it up or something?

 

[pup11]

Tait the way he was bowling yesterday i won't be suprised if he soon breaks the fastest ball record.

 

[Cotto]

He will break the record and i'm glad i won't be the one facing it!

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Seriously - anyone knows that someone who bowls like that can be successful.

What yesterday proved is that Tait can do it.

Once.

We wait to see how long it is before he does it again. It may be his next game. It may be 7 games down the line.

He's shown plenty of times in domestic cricket he can do it, and a lot of that is of a higher quality than some international sides.

 

[Arrow]

Anyway, I'd say the quickest ever would be Thomson fairly comfortably. In the fastest bowler comp in the late 70s he was clocked in the high 140s measured across the length of the wicket. Anyone's guess what his pace out of the hand was, but you'd assume it'd be in the high 150s-low 160s sort of range. To add to that, this was after his first major injury where it was generally agreed he lost pace..

So you beleive that Thompson was the fastest ever, and fairly comfortably despite having no real evidence to back you up other than assumptions. Cool.

 

[Arrow]

I repeat, I have seen a ball being bowled at 100mph, and one being bowled at 90mph, and there is a fairly big margin.

lol are you serious? You cant be.

 

[Goughy]

lol are you serious? You cant be.

Maybe talking about a bowling machine (which is obviously very different to real life beacuse of the balls. Due to the difference in aerodynamics and compression of the bowling machine balls). But he is correct, there is a huge difference between 90 and 100 mph

 

[Sanz]

I perfectly believe that you just have a habbit of doing such a thing . I have seen Waqar Younis clocking 95 MPH and Wasim Akram 91 MPH respectively and in the same series Alan Donald could clock 144kmph and thats it !!!

So for Wasim and Waqar it was giving speed in mph and for donald in kmph ?

 

[The Baconator]

Haha, gotta love this distrust of the speedguns.

Your eyes are better pieces of equipment, are they?

If you're talking to me there, I meant comparitively to what we usually see people clocked at.