Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Well - Bermuda and Canada, yes.
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Shaun Tait-Potential to be the fastest ever?
- Thread starter Pup Clarke
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Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
It's hardly unrealistic assumptions, though. Most bowlers lose a good 7 or 8 mph as the ball travels through the air.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
I was talking to you, MP and PF.
I see what you were saying but I've seen Mahmood, certainly, get up to that sort of speeds before - and the spinners were certainly bowling fast (everyone was saying MSP was bowling too fast). Not quite so sure about Plunkett, but have at least seen him hit 90mph before, though IIRR only once.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Monty was being clocked quicker, but solely because he was bowling a hell of a lot flatter and quicker than in the tests.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
I like your thinkin'!
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
Actually, that is evidence. It's an obvious fact of physics that the ball loses speed after being released from the hand. So naturally, if you measure a bowler's speed when they release the ball (as speed guns do today) it will be significantly quicker than if you measure the average speed over the length of the pitch. Obviously it's difficult to calculate exactly what that difference would be (though not impossible), but there will be one.
When you consider that a) Thomson was clocked in the high 140s over the length of the pitch, b) he was faster than a number of other renowned quick bowlers by a large distance, including Imran, Holding and Lillee, and c) this was after his first serious injury where he is meant to have lost pace, I think it's fair to imagine he was quicker than anyone else has been, at least since then.
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
Incidentally, the quickest speeds from that comp:
Thomson - 147.9
Holding - 141.3
Imran - 139.7
Croft - 139.2
Roberts - 138.6
Lillee - 136.4
Le Roux - 135.9
Daniel - 133.5
Pascoe - 131.6
Hadlee - 129.8
Thomson - 147.9
Holding - 141.3
Imran - 139.7
Croft - 139.2
Roberts - 138.6
Lillee - 136.4
Le Roux - 135.9
Daniel - 133.5
Pascoe - 131.6
Hadlee - 129.8
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
And please get them to bowl to Bradman, McCabe, Ponting, Hobbs, Hammond, Richards, Sobers, Lara, Gavaskar, Sachin, Dravid, Barry Richards and Graeme Pollock.
Here's an article from BaggyGreen.com
Shaun Tait believes he can break the world record for the fastest delivery after hitting the 160kph mark against England on Sunday. Tait, who is still a World Cup chance despite being dropped for the CB Series finals, said it was not the top speed he has reached.
"Last year in Queensland I felt I bowled quicker in a one-dayer and four-dayer," Tait told The Courier-Mail. "I am sure I have something left to break it. It just depends on the day. Some days you come out and you are not feeling quite as good and the conditions don't suit. They say New Zealand and South Africa are the best two countries to break the record because they are at high altitude and the air is a bit thinner. I might have to wait until one of those tours."
Tait said bettering the 161.3kph mark set by Shoaib Akhtar in 2003 was a definite goal for him. "It's very tempting," he said. "People might think it's silly but that's what I do. At the end of the day I try and bowl as fast as I can. That would be a great honor for me to become the fastest bowler of all time.
"It would be fantastic. When I saw the 160kph on the screen I thought I would have a tilt at the record but I didn't have enough left in the tank. I was very excited. Initially I thought it was 150 but when I saw the six I thought 'Oh, my God'."
Shaun Tait believes he can break the world record for the fastest delivery after hitting the 160kph mark against England on Sunday. Tait, who is still a World Cup chance despite being dropped for the CB Series finals, said it was not the top speed he has reached.
"Last year in Queensland I felt I bowled quicker in a one-dayer and four-dayer," Tait told The Courier-Mail. "I am sure I have something left to break it. It just depends on the day. Some days you come out and you are not feeling quite as good and the conditions don't suit. They say New Zealand and South Africa are the best two countries to break the record because they are at high altitude and the air is a bit thinner. I might have to wait until one of those tours."
Tait said bettering the 161.3kph mark set by Shoaib Akhtar in 2003 was a definite goal for him. "It's very tempting," he said. "People might think it's silly but that's what I do. At the end of the day I try and bowl as fast as I can. That would be a great honor for me to become the fastest bowler of all time.
"It would be fantastic. When I saw the 160kph on the screen I thought I would have a tilt at the record but I didn't have enough left in the tank. I was very excited. Initially I thought it was 150 but when I saw the six I thought 'Oh, my God'."
