Clarke's 151 vs South Africa is on par with Gooch's 154.Yeah, though tbh Clarke's god mode is up there with about anyone else but Lara's since I've been watching.
Jofra Archer did it ar 89mph, nah, not a massive feat.Thompson would hit the pitch then the sight screen on the full on a regular basis he was quicker than lee
Where is the Ishant Sharma delivery that was recorded at 155 kph?
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So did Afridi and he was a spinner, imagine if he was a pacer.Tyson clocked 143 off a one step Runup how fast was he when he ran in from the sightscreen
Yea there's many variables (bounce, swing etc that can make it much harder than just a ball that is X was tougher than Y because batsman had less reaction time), but surely the 'speed' should be the time taken from the release to the time it gets to the batsman (or crease if left alone)?I always think speed through the air is a pretty ordinary measurement of a bowler's real quote-unquote "pace". I reckon TV coverage misses a trick by not regularly showing the reaction time a batsman has. They may correlate perfectly, of course, but from watching the time the batsmen seems to have doesn't always tie up with the speed gun.
The year after he was in even better form v South AfricaTbf I don't think an attack of Marshall, Hadlee, Ambrose and Murali would have stopped Clarke back then. Bloke was in the form of his life.
The action has a lot to do with it. Guys with slingy actions are harder to pick up and have less tells than blokes with more orthodox actions who are even a bit faster - eg Johnson cf Lee.I always think speed through the air is a pretty ordinary measurement of a bowler's real quote-unquote "pace". I reckon TV coverage misses a trick by not regularly showing the reaction time a batsman has. They may correlate perfectly, of course, but from watching the time the batsmen seems to have doesn't always tie up with the speed gun.
I mean, as an example when he first came onto the international scene (or at least the first I saw of him) Shane Watson was bowling over 85mph consistently, but they were naked little nuts that moved not a jot through the air or off the deck and the batsman looked as if he had time to fire up the briar, check the morning paper and decide what cereal to have before he needed to offer a shot.
Seemed to hurry them up more when he cut the air velocity back and got a wee bit of hoop.
Yeah here he is hitting mid 140s off little more than a couple of paces.Scott Coyte could bowl with some ptetty good pace off a short AF runup
He was still crap though