Chucking doesnt help Akhtar in speed

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/fastest-pitcher-in-baseball.shtml

http://www.slate.com/id/2116402

"The world record baseball pitch is just over 100 mph."
Those steroid-guzzling lardbags' fastballs average only in the 90s!

This makes a cricket bowlers task like Shoaib Akhtar even more astonishing who achieve these speeds without throwing.

And running and pitching doesnt help in speed thats y pitchers dont have a run up. Try running and chucking at full speed , I bet u will fall on your face.

So it is quite amazing that someone with a 20 metre running start should be able to propell an object faster than someone standing still.

Truly incredible.

Yes itduzz.

Meh, it's a bit different from running in and chucking the ball.

itduzz said:

And running and pitching doesnt help in speed thats y pitchers dont have a run up. Try running and chucking at full speed , I bet u will fall on your face.

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Then there's something wrong with you

itduzz said:

And running and pitching doesnt help in speed thats y pitchers dont have a run up. Try running and chucking at full speed , I bet u will fall on your face.

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Yeah, that obviously why javelin thowers stand still when they throw

Baseball pitchers can move their back foot from a line that on the mound and javelin throwers cant cross the white line.

Obviously if you gave anyone thowing a run up and a follow through they would generate greater velocity that standing still or stopping dead.

He's not like running up and throwing it like a pitcher does

He's slightly bending his arm...

itduzz said:

And running and pitching doesnt help in speed thats y pitchers dont have a run up. Try running and chucking at full speed , I bet u will fall on your face.

So it is quite amazing that someone with a 20 metre running start should be able to propell an object faster than someone standing still.

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Ruinning does help speed it gives you rythym.

What a strange thread...

Richard said:

What a strange thread...

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I know this is a cricket forum why are we talking about baseball

Well sometimes comparisons can be useful but this stuff just seems totally random to me.

I wonder what the fastest recorded throw was, with a run up and everything.

adharcric said:

Yes itduzz.

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Moreover it helps in accuracy.

SJS said:

Moreover it helps in accuracy.

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I disagree, by throwing a ball as hard as I can I tend to lose accuracy. Whether that's my own lack of co-ordination or not remains to be seen.

Perm said:

I disagree, by throwing a ball as hard as I can I tend to lose accuracy. Whether that's my own lack of co-ordination or not remains to be seen.

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Really. Then try bowling it and at furious pace and compare the two for accuracy.

Forget cricket. In every field of life or sport, where hitting a target by propelling another at it is required, throwing is the preferred way and not bowling except at cricket where it is outlawed.

Ask someone who has faced chuckers at the top level and they will tell you how deadly accurate they are.

Suresh Luthra, a Delhi fast bowler of the late sixties and seventies used to chuck occasionally and when he chucked he pitched with deadly accuracy.

Chuckers bowl the deadliest yorkers and its the accuracy more than the speed that does you in.

but it does when he's sick

What was the point in un-banning him if he was just going to be banned again?

EDIT: ah, I see.

Richard said:

What was the point in un-banning him if he was just going to be banned again?

EDIT: ah, I see.

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I'm not sure what you mean with ah I see but they unbanned because they thought he had matured and stopped all his dire trouble causing posting.

TBH, I don't think it was ever likely that he'd grow-up, and the "ah, I see" was because I'd read his most recent few posts and seen why he was banned again.