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On 4/6/2026 at 8:46 AM, Trichromatic said:

Random ODI series of 2000s used to have more 150+ deliveries than whole of IPL in producing with matches involving 100s of players.

Those random bowlers you are talking about were Brett Lee, Shoaib, Tait. Mohd Sami at times. Other than these, there weren't many bowlers hitting 150+. While nowadays, focus is more on variations than just pace especially on Indian pitches. Otherwise bowlers like Wood, Archer, lockie, Ashok, Mayank, Umran can also bowl 150 regularly.

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4 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Those random bowlers you are talking about were Brett Lee, Shoaib, Tait. Mohd Sami at times. Other than these, there weren't many bowlers hitting 150+. While nowadays, focus is more on variations than just pace especially on Indian pitches. Otherwise bowlers like Wood, Archer, lockie, Ashok, Mayank, Umran can also bowl 150 regularly.

Likes of Bond, Lawson have also clocked 150+.

Andy Bichel was clocking early to mid 140s at ease. 

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1 hour ago, singhvivek141 said:

Likes of Bond, Lawson have also clocked 150+.

Andy Bichel was clocking early to mid 140s at ease. 

Yes but not 150 regularly. Also didn't play that much.

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28 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Yes but not 150 regularly. Also didn't play that much.

Matlab that even at 160s,batters seems to have time to move back and forth on those deliveries.

Aus vs Eng 2003 WC, Lee's first two deliveries were at 159.7 and 160.x kph...they looked fast but nothing unplayable.

 

Now a days at 150+ kph, batters seems almost rushed as if they had no clue. Ashoks 154kph went to Jurel like a bullet.

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2 hours ago, singhvivek141 said:

Matlab that even at 160s,batters seems to have time to move back and forth on those deliveries.

Aus vs Eng 2003 WC, Lee's first two deliveries were at 159.7 and 160.x kph...they looked fast but nothing unplayable.

 

Now a days at 150+ kph, batters seems almost rushed as if they had no clue. Ashoks 154kph went to Jurel like a bullet.

 

High speed cameras are very accurate for measuring bowling speeds. But they take a bit of time to give speed readings. Which is why they are used in Hawk-eye. But speed guns are still needed for showing speeds immediately on TV as they give readings quickly. 

 

Speed Guns are not that accurate and if you set up 10 speed guns then you will get 10 pretty different speed readings. 

 

Which is why multiple speed guns are set up and the average reading is taken nowadays 

 

In the 2000s decade, often the highest speed reading of the different speed guns was taken ( as Speed showing on TV was still pretty new and they wanted to market high speeds ). And we sometimes had bowlers clocking higher speeds than they seemed to be bowling at.

 

While nowadays the speed readings shown seem more rational.

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1 hour ago, express bowling said:

 

High speed cameras are very accurate for measuring bowling speeds. But they take a bit of time to give speed readings. Which is why they are used in Hawk-eye. But speed guns are still needed for showing speeds immediately on TV as they give readings quickly. 

 

Speed Guns are not that accurate and if you set up 10 speed guns then you will get 10 pretty different speed readings. 

 

Which is why multiple speed guns are set up and the average reading is taken nowadays 

 

In the 2000s decade, often the highest speed reading of the different speed guns was taken ( as Speed showing on TV was still pretty new and they wanted to market high speeds ). And we sometimes had bowlers clocking higher speeds than they seemed to be bowling at.

 

While nowadays the speed readings shown seem more rational.


the most accurate reading these days are from Australia where they use the kookaburra smart ball to get the speed

 

ipl speeds on tv are from hawkeye only as bcci is using a ai driven system with hawkeye to get the speed 

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1 hour ago, Malcolm Merlyn said:


the most accurate reading these days are from Australia where they use the kookaburra smart ball to get the speed

 

Which is why normal pacers, like Peter Siddle and Jake Ball, hitting 152 k and 148 k, won't happen any more.

 

1 hour ago, Malcolm Merlyn said:

ipl speeds on tv are from hawkeye only as bcci is using a ai driven system with hawkeye to get the speed 

 

If high speed camera readings, used in Hawk-eye, are made available on TV this year using AI, then all the more reason why Speed readings are more accurate now. What I wrote was till a couple of years back.

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On 4/11/2026 at 11:06 PM, Malcolm Merlyn said:

The present ipl system with ai suite with hawkeye 

 

Speed Error: The typical margin of error is within 0.5 to 1.0 kph.

 

What was accuracy earlier?

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On 4/12/2026 at 12:14 AM, singhvivek141 said:

Likes of Bond, Lawson have also clocked 150+.

Andy Bichel was clocking early to mid 140s at ease. 

Lawson who?

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