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The fastest bowler you have ever faced?
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Prince EWS
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Faced Cameron Schoer in the nets when I was at his club - young left arm bowler who they clocked at 140km/hr. I highly doubt he was actually bowling that fast though ITBT - it's probably a combination of a poorly taken reading and an exaggeration on Cameron's part.
Nevertheless, he's still the fastest bowler I've faced, whatever pace he was actually bowling at.
Nevertheless, he's still the fastest bowler I've faced, whatever pace he was actually bowling at.
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The match in which the fastest bowler I've ever faced played was also, coincidentally, the worst pitch I've ever played on. It was an artificial surface but instead of concrete under the matting there was an uneven wooden surface. 
One of my team-mates got a broken nose.
One of my team-mates got a broken nose.
Ash_A55
U19 Captain
That sounds like something I have seen. But i saw a throat ball on a concrete based artificial wicket.The match in which the fastest bowler I've ever faced played was also, coincidentally, the worst pitch I've ever played on. It was an artificial surface but instead of concrete under the matting there was an uneven wooden surface.
One of my team-mates got a broken nose.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Irfan Pathan when he was 9 years old.
Really.
Really.
DCC_legend
International Regular
one of m fellow 3rd XI players. Bowled in the high 60's low 70's. He was probably one of the best bowlers at the club, but he a sort of Chucking action. His bowling got really bad throughout the season after it got reported to the NCU. He became a wicket keeper. Has now left the club and become a full time wipeout.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Sanjeev Sharma who later played for India. Gursharan Singh's younger brother Jaspal who was just 17 when I played him but very sharp.
Then there was Suresh Luthra who was a terror in North India in the late sixties through the seventies. He could bowl blinding pace from a five step spinners run up. He swung the ball in to right handers and at that pace with deadly accuracy he was virtually unplayable. A look at his stats shows how successful he was in the first class game. But there was a small problem because of which he never played for India or outside the North Zone.
He chucked....blatantly.
Having played him and more importantly, having seen India's leading batsmen, including GR Vishwanath, one of the best against fast bowling, flounder against him, I have never had any doubts about where chuckers belong in this game....they dont.
When I was in clollege there used to be a bowler in St. Stephens Delhi called Amarjeet Singh Maini. He bowled ferociously fast but was all over the place. He never did play for Delhi.
I played Manoj Prabhakar in his early days. He was quick but not quick enough to be difficult to handle. He got you with his sharp in swing. The first time I played him he got me LBW first ball in the first innings with a sharp inswinger which I had gone prepared for !!
Then there was Suresh Luthra who was a terror in North India in the late sixties through the seventies. He could bowl blinding pace from a five step spinners run up. He swung the ball in to right handers and at that pace with deadly accuracy he was virtually unplayable. A look at his stats shows how successful he was in the first class game. But there was a small problem because of which he never played for India or outside the North Zone.
He chucked....blatantly.
Having played him and more importantly, having seen India's leading batsmen, including GR Vishwanath, one of the best against fast bowling, flounder against him, I have never had any doubts about where chuckers belong in this game....they dont.
When I was in clollege there used to be a bowler in St. Stephens Delhi called Amarjeet Singh Maini. He bowled ferociously fast but was all over the place. He never did play for Delhi.
I played Manoj Prabhakar in his early days. He was quick but not quick enough to be difficult to handle. He got you with his sharp in swing. The first time I played him he got me LBW first ball in the first innings with a sharp inswinger which I had gone prepared for !!
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
As of right now I am 57 yrs, 2 months, 9 hours and 20 minutes oldHope you don't mind me asking but...
How old were you on the day these posts were made SJS?
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
When I first played Luthra, I was a teen ager and ****scared ! When I played Maini I was in college approaching twenty.Ah, right - bit younger than I'd thought, then.
But Sharma, Prabhakar and Jaspal are much younger and I played all of them in the 83-85 period. That makes me 33 to 35.
Yes I was older and maybe slower but not a bad opening batsman for my club.
I played senior A Division League in Delhi from 1965 (15 yrs old) to 1985.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Oh I did not play any cricket after 1985. One of the biggest regrets of my life. It was the time my career took off vertically but I lost the greatest passion of my life through lack of time.It's just that obviously it's gonna be different facing a really quick bowler at 40 than at 28.
Yeah, looks like I miscounted on the Prabhakar, Jaspal, etc. count though.
My company boys would orhanise a game once a year or so. Something like Plant versus Marketing and I would feel great looking good amongst very ordinary players. The day before my last working day they organised a game but it rained and we ended up playing a match on the beach with a hard rubber ball, wet sand underfoot and waiters carrying chicken tikkas and beer right through the match and onto the wicket.
I must get hold of some of those pictures.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Okay here are some pictures from Jampore Beach Daman (a formal portugese colony in India) 14th August 2006
The Setting : The beach is lovely though the sand is very dark. It had rained all night so the moment you found a spot to start batting from and stood there bat in hand, pools of water started forming around your feet as the water came up with the weight of the body.
But it was lovely.
The Setting : The beach is lovely though the sand is very dark. It had rained all night so the moment you found a spot to start batting from and stood there bat in hand, pools of water started forming around your feet as the water came up with the weight of the body.
But it was lovely.
