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Battle of Pre-Speedgun Fastest Bowlers

Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
Ooo, strategic voting to give Tyson and Korty one vote each, putting Larwood straight through - very clever.
 
Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
Of course. How silly of me, it was 1hr and 15 minutes left because it was GMT rather than BST.

Preliminary Battle Final

FRANK TYSON



VS

HAROLD LARWOOD



FINISHES AT 8PM GMT ON THURSDAY 14th AUGUST
 
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fredfertang

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Larwood -

Wasn't expecting you to participate yet Mr Z - has the Rioja mellowed you this evening?
 
zaremba

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
No but at least we're now talking about bowlers who aren't more than a generation apart, and from the relatively little cricket writing that I've read I felt that Tyson was the quicker. However I have to admit that when you and Archie Mac line up together against me on this kind of issue I start to feel nervous and horribly outgunned.
 
archie mac

archie mac

International Coach
zaremba said:
No but at least we're now talking about bowlers who aren't more than a generation apart, and from the relatively little cricket writing that I've read I felt that Tyson was the quicker. However I have to admit that when you and Archie Mac line up together against me on this kind of issue I start to feel nervous and horribly outgunned.
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Don't worry I think on their best day it would have been little more then a toss of the coin:-O
 
Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
Fixtures:
Code: 
[I]Allan Donald Vs Javagal Srinath

Jeff Thomson Vs Mohammad Zahid 

Malcolm Marshall Vs Patrick Patterson

Michael Holding Vs Devon Malcolm

Colin Croft Vs Andy Roberts

Wes Hall Vs Charlie Griffith

Fred Trueman Vs Bob Willis

Geoff Lawson Vs Dennis Lillee

John Snow Vs Imran Khan

Waqar Younis Vs Ian Bishop

Frank Tyson Vs BYE

Harold Larwood Vs BYE[/I]
Few names removed due to lack of videos.
 
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Perm

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
How ironic, given the thread we had this week.

Allan Donald, comfortably.
 
Goughy

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
Donald

The interesting thing is that the Donald clip is clearly the same spell (possibly even the same over) yet isnt mentioned as such. Yet the Srinath clip is labelled a "spell" yet clothing and light conditions change and he gets Thorpe and Stewart out twice. Well bowled :laugh:
 
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Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
Goughy said:
The interesting thing is that the Donald clip is clearly the same spell (possibly even the same over) yet isnt mentioned as such. Yet the Srinath clip is labelled a "spell" yet clothing and light conditions change and he gets Thorpe and Stewart out twice. Well bowled :laugh:
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It is astounding how little there is of early Srinath on Youtube. BTW, I've just taken the titles from the videos.
 
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