Where Are All The 150kph Bowlers?

[express bowling]

im sure it looks quicker when ur not wearing helmet too :giggle:

If you are not wearing a helmet then even old Venky Prasad feels like Morne Morkel. :giggle:

[vayuu1]

How long were the boundary ropes? Was it a conventional pitch or a cement strip?

they were big grounds not small ropes like today,though pitch had very good bounce ,infact kortright never played for england ,but he even intimidated the grand daddy of cricket sir w.g grace ,so much so that he refused to speak to him.

[Lord]

four fastest bowlers for me are frank tyson' date=' roy gilchrist,charles kortright and jeff thompson ,since they are the only four bowlers in history to hit sight screen with the ball after it bounced once on the pitch.[/quote'] yeah right really?:omg:

[vayuu1]

yeah right really?:omg:

yes

[Lord]

yes

any link for that?

[Magneto]

they were big grounds not small ropes like today' date='though pitch had very good bounce ,infact kortright never played for england ,but he even intimidated the grand daddy of cricket sir w.g grace ,so much so that he refused to speak to him.[/quote'] I guess only Kortright's record has been verified regarding this. Tapioca had quoted a lot of cricket literature and researched a lot of cricket history a few months back on this subject and put it up on ICF when I asked the same question.

[panther]

AY23BXu2nQE 1 shoaib akhtar=100 sachin tendulkers.

[vayuu1]

i have a question for icfers if tyson ,kortright,thompson and roy gilchrist at that pace were indian and srini and dhoni were not picking them would u have rioted

[vayuu1]

any link for that?

wiki

[superstar]

The bowling machines are more accurate these days. Unless we do something about them we will not see the 150k bowlers

[Magneto]

wiki

Probably, none of these matches were FC matches so there has always been a doubt whether these are apocryphal stories.

[Magneto]

AY23BXu2nQE 1 shoaib akhtar=100 sachin tendulkers.

That means 1 shoaib akhtar = 10000000000000000000 Afridis? :omg:

[Malcolm Merlyn]

Larwood was not even close to 150ks.Thats preposterous.Tyson was probably quick but he played only a few tests.Probably the the 1st few 150ks were from the WI. Except Lee and Akhtar i havent seen another bowler who could bowl every ball of the spell at 150ks. Pont bhai please make a 150k bowler and we will see then.

[vayuu1]

Probably' date=' none of these matches were FC matches so there has always been a doubt whether these are apocryphal stories.[/quote'] Tyson made his first class debut against the Indian tourists in 1952, after his first ball the slips moved back an extra five yards and his first wicket was that of the Test batsman Pankaj Roy for a duck. Tyson's second first class match was against the Australians in 1953. Richie Benaud was told that the unknown Tyson was a bowler fresh out of Durham University who would give them no trouble. They began to revise this estimation when they saw the wicket-keeper take position halfway to the boundary and young Tyson walked over to the sightscreen to begin his run up. The first ball ricocheted off the edge of Colin McDonald's bat to the boundary, the second trapped him lbw before he could play a stroke, the third was a bouncer that flew past Graeme Hole's nose and the fourth was a yorker that clean bowled Hole and sent his stumps cartwheeling over the wicket-keeper's head. In 1954 on a brute of a pitch at Old Trafford Tyson hit the sightscreen with the ball after it bounced once on the pitch. Kortright lived until 1952 and was interviewed shortly before his death providing a wonderful insight into Victorian cricket. The bowlers of his era used the yorker as their main weapon; they had bowled on some pitches just as flat as modern "shirt fronts". The bowling crease was smaller in those days, which restricted their angles of attack. He pointed out that he had used a larger ball and had smaller stumps to bowl at. The way to overcome these obstacles was simply to get fitter and bowl faster. Many batsmen were given a thorough battering by Kortright and W. G. Grace was no exception. In 1898, the batsman was approaching 50 years old and refused to speak to Kortright following a Gloucestershire vs Essex match. This was the famous occasion on which Kortright, having uprooted two of the stumps after Grace had shamelessly intimidated the umpire out of giving several dismissals, said: "Surely you're not going, Doc? There's still one stump standing". This witticism rather than the battering he received, may have been the main cause of Grace's ire. He claimed that he had never been so insulted. Gilchrist is considered to be one of only four bowlers ever, to have actually hit the sightscreen after first bounce on the pitch, on the full. Competing in a 1978 fast bowling contest that included many of the leading bowlers in the world, Thomson came first with a delivery clocked at 147.9 km/h, ahead of Michael Holding (141.3 km/h) and Imran Khan (139.7 km/h). In 1975 during a Test match, he was timed using high-speed cameras with a release speed of 160.45 km/h; the following year he was timed at 160.58 km/h using conventional radar.[2] Australian wicket-keeper Rod Marsh kept wicket to Thomson for most of his Test career and claimed that Thomson bowled upwards of 180 km/h. Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd regards Thomson as the fastest bowler he has ever seen.[3] Thomson himself noted that he had been timed at the batsman's end of the pitch (by which time the ball has slowed) and believes had he been timed out of the hand he would have been closer to 180 km/h.[4] Frank Tyson wrote that "at a muzzle velocity of 99.6 m.p.h. Thompson is so fast and human reaction time is so slow that scientists have calculated that the batsman has to begin playing a stroke against him more than .062 of a second before 'Thommo' lets go of the ball".[5]

[Old guy]

180 is not physically possible imo

[Old guy]

also batsman always has to play the shot before ball is delivered i mean he is already in motion before ball is released otherwise u wont be able to touch any fast bowler its hard to explain but if any one here has played cricket at pro level he will agree :P

[vayuu1]

i know but i have list of fastest baseball pitcher and the fastest is 108 mph

[Old guy]

baseball is different ...cannot compare both

[vayuu1]

but sabby do u think akthar or lee would have been so consistent pace wise like above mentioned gentlemen

[vayuu1]

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