The fastest bowler you have ever faced?

[Dasa]

80 mph = 129 kph = pretty slow. People on here are making out it's express pace.

Tbh most of the people here would be have limited experience/ability against bowling of that pace. Without any experience of it, it seems like express pace even if it's relatively pedestrian. I know the first time I faced bowling of that pace I could hardly get bat on it, the ball was past me before I knew it.

 

[Fiery]

In club cricket, it can be pretty quick. Obviously not talking about anything close to test cricket here.

Tbh most of the people here would be have limited experience/ability against bowling of that pace. Without any experience of it, it seems like express pace even if it's relatively pedestrian. I know the first time I faced bowling of that pace I could hardly get bat on it, the ball was past me before I knew it.

Fair enough

 

[gettingbetter]

Yes, Sean Weeraratna plays for Scotland U-19s and Greenock and takes hatfuls of wickets. Has played for Scotland a couple of times as well and is pretty sharp.

There were a few other blokes as well. I think they had a set of brothers.

 

[Richard]

65 mph may not be slow but I can't see how club or league batsmen would be troubled by such pace. I certainly can't imagine any such batsman around here being troubled by that and I'm sure English cricket leagues are far superior to what we have here. 75-80 mph can be good pace in club of league cricket though.

Not good league players, obviously, but the moderate-standard third-xi batsmen do sometimes.

 

[Pup Clarke]

but the moderate-standard third-xi batsmen do sometimes.

Like yourself ?.

 

[Richard]

Nah, I'm nowhere near that good.

 

[Pup Clarke]

...down to the nets for you this winter son.

 

[PhoenixFire]

We turned the bowling machine at school up to 99mph and aimed at the stumps. They broke after two or three balls.

Yeah that's awesome fun. Stick stuff in front of it and break them with 100mph balls. We put this guy's school bag in front and smashed up all his stuff, great fun.

 

[Manee]

Yes, we pitched it on yorker length indoors and it bounced over the stumps

 

[open365]

Yeah that's awesome fun. Stick stuff in front of it and break them with 100mph balls. We put this guy's school bag in front and smashed up all his stuff, great fun.

I've faced a bowling machine at 75mph last year, it was set so i could play the cut shot(IE so it doesn't hit me in the chest) and even though i new where it was coming i didn't hit it once in 20 odd attempts.

Opening bowlers in English club cricket rarely go above 80.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Yeah, people tend to exaggerate pace. Kev (Goughy) is the man really, and he says that people are pretty much never as fast as people make them out to be. There is an overseas WI bloke called Atiba Allert who plays for a club near me and he is genuine pace. I'd say no faster than 82/3 mph, but he is absolute tearaway.

 

[open365]

I blame it on behind the bowler's arm cameras for TV which make the bowling seem about 100000 times slower than it acctualy is, Paul Collingwood would probably one of the 5 fastest(English) bowlers in the Liverpool comp league.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Yep totally agree. The bowlers look slow on TV and when I saw Harmison in real life, it looks like a blur. I have no idea how batmen can react that fast.

 

[Richard]

That was my exact thought when I saw bowling live for the first time in 1994.

 

[Richard]

...down to the nets for you this winter son.

I wish.

Anyway, it's bowling I need to be doing in nets, not batting. There's a small amount of hope there.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Anyway, it's bowling I need to be doing in nets, not batting. There's a small amount of hope there.

Well go down to your club put a marker out on a good length and bowl 5 overs with full concentration aand maximum effort or are you too lazy to do that.

Do you have a Pro or Amateur at your club who bowls pace who could work with you?.

 

[Richard]

Haha, nah, our overseas players have been batsmen for the last 6 years at least.

I need to do a great many things when it comes to working at my bowling, all of which I'm aware of myself and don't need to be told. I'm not the worst bowling technician in The World, TBH, I'm just lazy. All it takes is getting off my aess, and hopefully that might happen sometime next year (I said that last year too).

 

[Raghav]

Venkatesh Prasad

 

[Burgey]

I've faced a bowling machine at 75mph last year, it was set so i could play the cut shot(IE so it doesn't hit me in the chest) and even though i new where it was coming i didn't hit it once in 20 odd attempts.

Opening bowlers in English club cricket rarely go above 80.

tbf, it's harder on a a bowling machine, in my experience to pick up the ball. You can pick up subtleties in a bowler's run up & action to give you hints on what's coming which you can't with a machine.

And how bad do those big golf balls hurt?

We had a machine on 75 mph for a pre-season warm up last year. Hadn't been to the facility before and didn't realise it was only about 18 yards back. Got me on the calf of the back leg, missed the pad and I had a bruise with dimples in it for about 3 weeks. Utter agony.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Haha, nah, our overseas players have been batsmen for the last 6 years at least.

I need to do a great many things when it comes to working at my bowling, all of which I'm aware of myself and don't need to be told. I'm not the worst bowling technician in The World, TBH, I'm just lazy. All it takes is getting off my aess, and hopefully that might happen sometime next year (I said that last year too).

Who do you play for in Devon?