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And around 50mph as well which matches most of the U15s for pace.halsey said:
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Tom Halsey
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U15's only 50 mph? I play U15's, I am a leggie, quite flighted, I bowl 35 m.p.h. Most of the seamers at my club team bowl at least 60 m.p.h., and at Essex, a few can match 75-80 m.p.h. Does your club have a lot of medium pacers? :P
Neil Pickup
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Our Under 15s had a difficult time of things last season. Small squad (in both senses of the word - height and numbers) and 26 players used (U13s, U11s filling in). It was not easy to manage them 
Most of them can touch 60mph when flat out but they then spray a hell of a lot - so more consistent at around 50 (and some (ie my brother) sometimes start bowling at 40 in games with some nice 30mph slower balls - play and miss twice, then edge it well short of the keeper standing up)- the fastest are around that mark consistently and accurately.
Fastest junior player at the club is U17 and is low-mid 70s.
Most of them can touch 60mph when flat out but they then spray a hell of a lot - so more consistent at around 50 (and some (ie my brother) sometimes start bowling at 40 in games with some nice 30mph slower balls - play and miss twice, then edge it well short of the keeper standing up)- the fastest are around that mark consistently and accurately.
Fastest junior player at the club is U17 and is low-mid 70s.
Tom Halsey
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You managed them! I would have liked to be one of their players.Neil Pickup said:Our Under 15s had a difficult time of things last season. Small squad (in both senses of the word - height and numbers) and 26 players used (U13s, U11s filling in). It was not easy to manage them
Most of them can touch 60mph when flat out but they then spray a hell of a lot - so more consistent at around 50 (and some (ie my brother) sometimes start bowling at 40 in games with some nice 30mph slower balls - play and miss twice, then edge it well short of the keeper standing up)- the fastest are around that mark consistently and accurately.
Fastest junior player at the club is U17 and is low-mid 70s.
I hate to say this but there is one really quick guy at Essex U13's who can match your U17. But, being so quick for his age, he is inaccurate. If not, England sure fire. :P But your guy is class if he can do that. :P
Neil Pickup
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I like to think I did a reasonable job in difficult conditionshalsey said:You managed them! I would have liked to be one of their players.
Less than can be said about the umpiring, though. Actually, it was better than the other teams' umpires.Bowler bowls, batsman flicks it off his pads to square leg, signalled wide...
Have a look at http://www.caistor.play-cricket.com/ for more about the season.
You can keep Brett Lee and we'll stick to Glenn McGrath, thanks
Tom Halsey
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Good choice. I'm afraid our guy is a bit all over the place.Neil Pickup said:You can keep Brett Lee and we'll stick to Glenn McGrath, thanks
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Give him a few years, so long as the action isn't mixed then with practice he should get some control.halsey said:
Tom Halsey
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OK. I just had a look at your statistics, Neil, on your webpage. Batting: Crap. Bowling: Not much better! :P Well, for 2002, anyway.
SpaceMonkey
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Thats some pretty impressive speeds...its a shame we dont know what speed the likes of Brett Lee / Aktar was bowling at, at that age as a comparison.
Neil Pickup
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My batting was better than the bowling in 2002, you'll find.halsey said:OK. I just had a look at your statistics, Neil, on your webpage. Batting: Crap. Bowling: Not much better! :P Well, for 2002, anyway.
Match-saving 6*!
Usually the bowling's better, but I had no control over the flight/length/anything. The 1-0-22-0 was a result of half track 30mph long hops outside leg stump.
Most of them went 3-4 metres over PY's head at midwicket and into the Tennis Courts
Tom Halsey
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Proper leg-spin then - Nice and inaccurate, that's the way it's meant to be! 
Tom Halsey
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About 80-85 m.p.h. at U15's - my age, I would have thought.SpaceMonkey said:
Rik
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I've played against this guy who is modeled on Glenn, but bowls at about 45mph max, which is how fast I bowl when I bowl spinners! Still he's stupidly accurate and gets me most times, though he's allways had an out-field green pitch to bowl on.Neil Pickup said:You can keep Brett Lee and we'll stick to Glenn McGrath, thanks
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Aye. Bit of re-modelling this year and things are improvedhalsey said:Proper leg-spin then - Nice and inaccurate, that's the way it's meant to be!
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Are you a flighted bowler, or a flat Kumble bowler? I am pretty flighted, and people always tell me I bowl like Warne (my action)
When Brett Lee was playing Under 15's he was bowling to the Australian team as a net bowler , Allan Border said he first saw Brett in 1993/94 & even at 15 he was that quick it was scary.halsey said:
Im 15 & when I go flat out I can hit 124kph , in a match I average about 118-122.
Craig
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Didnt I have a thread called "Best young player"?
If anybody has seen Yasir Hameed, he ducks and has his bat hanging up in the air like a periscope (sp).
Its something that should be fixed as if the ball hits it could go anywhere.
Then again is he hits a couple of fours with it, he could say he deliberatly played that shot
If anybody has seen Yasir Hameed, he ducks and has his bat hanging up in the air like a periscope (sp).
Its something that should be fixed as if the ball hits it could go anywhere.
Then again is he hits a couple of fours with it, he could say he deliberatly played that shot