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***Official Under 19 World Cup Thread***

adharcric

adharcric

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shankar said:
It's better then to just classify them as 140+ because calling bowlers like Sreesanth, tearaways just sounds ridiculous.
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Agreed. We have to judge fast bowlers by international standards, not Indian standards, if we want to build a competitive attack and win the World Cup. A bowler is classified as "fast" if he bowls 90+ mph, which translates into 145+ kph. A bowler is classified as "fast-medium" if he bowls 85+ mph or 137+ kph ... and "medium-fast" if he bowls 80+ or 129+ kph. I have a feeling that Munaf Patel and VR Singh have topped 145 kph on occasions but don't consistently bowl close to 150, because that would be a really big deal for an Indian bowler. So I'd say that India currently has a crop of 6 or 7 "fast-medium" bowlers. 2 of them are on the high end of the spectrum, namely Munaf and VRV. Then you have Sreesanth, Ahmed, Yomahesh, etc. There's also Abid Nabi from J&K, but he hasn't done anything of note yet. I refuse to accept that RP Singh is "fast-medium" because he regularly bowls in the low 130s and the speed he can bowl accurately at is what matters, not the maximum speed that he can achieve.
 
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andyc

andyc

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Pakistan two down now, Ritchard (RFM) gets another one, this time a stumping. :wacko:
 
Neil Pickup

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andyc said:
Pakistan two down now, Ritchard (RFM) gets another one, this time a stumping. :wacko:
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One of the best pieces of wicket keeping I've ever seen - if not the best.

Left-handed batsman had spent the previous over beginning to come down the wicket and put the seamers off their line and length. Keeper Wade comes to stand up to Ritchard, and the first ball is swinging away down leg side at 77.1mph

Wade gets across, takes it cleanly - and as the batsman overbalances having missed his leg-glance, whips the bails off with the foot in the air. Quite brilliant!
 
Tim

Tim

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Particularly at his age. If he's making stumpings like that right now, he's already at an extremely high standard of wicket-keeping.
 
Neil Pickup

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Someone needs to tell Pakistan that they don't need to keep scoring at six an over.

I think that's a clean catch.
 
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