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The fastest bowler you have ever faced?

adharcric

adharcric

International Coach
Probably faced 75-80 mph a few times - once against my cousin and a few times in league cricket. The two top quicks in our college side are a Bangladeshi (high 70s) and a left-armer from India (low-mid 70s). Have to say, playing the second guy is way tougher because he manages to swing and cut the ball like crazy - even if we decide to play with a tape-tennis ball on a baseball field. Yesterday, I was designing a CPU in a lab and someone saw two guys playing cricket outside in the hall. I got a little too excited, went out to bat assuming these guys would be ****. Turned out to be a really, really built left-armer from Pakistan who must have been clocking nearly 80 with the rubber ball off a short run-up. Good thing he was off-target and didn't own my ass in front of my friends - at least he told me I bat like Dravid. :)
 
shortpitched713

shortpitched713

International Captain
adharcric said:
Have to say, playing the second guy is way tougher because he manages to swing and cut the ball like crazy - even if we decide to play with a tape-tennis ball on a baseball field.
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Batting with a tape-tennis ball on a baseball field is the worse. Low/uneven bounce makes it darn near impossible for me to get it off the square. And I know a couple of guys who can make a tape-tennis ball talk, but they often struggle to replicate it with a hard ball.
 
readie

readie

State Regular
Doug Bollinger Faced him in the nets at a Training camp set up by NSW Blues. Asked him to bowl it like he would in a game so I could say I faced a bowler of genuine pace. was pretty quick
 
readie

readie

State Regular
Also two of my mates play "Emerging Blues" ( New South Wales Junior squads) both hard-hitting all-rounders who bowl quite fast. One of them has reached 135 Kmh using a platypus speed ball. Not sure how accurate they are but they were both consistently in high 120's to low 130's.

Considering their both only 16 they're doing pretty well.
 
nightprowler10

nightprowler10

Global Moderator
The fastest bowler I ever faced was a kid in my high school in Lahore, Ali Adnan. He was a bit of an arse, but what an awesome bowler and batsman. Certainly the fastest I've ever seen, and maybe even the best batsman I've ever bowled to. He got me out bowled the only time I faced him and I got him out slogging the only time he faced me. We had a bit of a rivalry going like I do with Manan here. Except this guy was actually good.

Every once in a while I look through Cricket Archive to see if he's played any cricket at a higher level, but to my surprise he hasn't.
 
I

Isolator

State 12th Man
Fastest bowler I've faced... some 13 year old kid. About as fast as Yuvraj Singh bowling slower ones after being shot full of elephant tranquilizer. I'm a coward.

But...uh...one of my uncles has faced Roy Gilchrist.
 
Simon

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When did you get the opportunity to face up to him?
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2001, Sri Lanka's national team played in the Australian under 18's indoor cricket championship, pretty much everyone in that side has played first class cricket, they were pretty good...
 
PhoenixFire

PhoenixFire

International Coach
I have played a guy who was around 75mph, and I could just about play it, couldn't attack it or anything. Blocking was about it.
 
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