His fastest ball was recorded in late 2005 but from what I remember, never saw him bowl faster than he did at the 03 WC. Touching 155 every over with ease many times. He was fit, 27, young in his prime and on rythm. Bond as well bowled the fastest I ever saw him bowl as well in that same WC...deadlier than lee too overall. Swing and accuracy combined with borderline express pace.
yawn
Shoaib, Tait and Lee all broke the barrier but in ODIs.
No but I seem to have fat fingers
not really, other than out of 40 years of trying no one has had a reading like that, which is pretty special
Yeah it's crazy that they had a dodgy speed gun 40 years ago, then used a legit one for 40 years, and now have gone back to the dodgy one. Those quicks in the stolen generation got duped.
My point was merely that nowhere in sports a properly calibrated speed gun has ever been used. Maybe I'm too cynical about it.
Shoaib claims he has broken the barrier in the 2002 series against New Zealand but the speedometers were faulty and didn't record it. That's his claim. Not sure if true or not.
the speed guns in Thialf are pretty accurate
Nah, not even close. Statistically they're similar, but Crowe played in a much tougher era for batsmen, has a much stronger away record, and spent a decade as one of the top two or three batsmen in the world (along with AB and Miandad). His career stats were scarred by being picked way too young, and basically having to bat on one leg for the last 18 months of his test career. Taylor's very, very good but he's not really close to Crowe.
They are? That's completely new to me! Apart from the fact speed guns are hardly relevant for speed skating........
Yeah, good points. I maintain that Taylor is underrated though.
Yeah, which I imagine is why no media outlet is reporting Matt "The 170km/h Man" Henry or "OMG that Lyon ball was 140km/h". Starc hitting 160 is legitimately believable (and I imagine he'll do it one day in an ODI or T20).
