Will we get to..

[bond21]

LMFAO.

Speeds have gone down dramatically since the 70s.

Who bowls fast now? Lee and Tait, theyre the only 2 who bowl consistently over 150 when they want.

Everyone else trundles along at 135-140.

In the 70s you had Thomson, Roberts, Lillee, Garner, Griffiths, Holding, Hadlee etc.


Fast bowling is woeful in 2008.

 

[bond21]

List of bowlers who have bowled over 150 km/h in the new millennium -

Shane Bond, Brett Lee, Nanti Haywood, Jason Gillespie, Shoaib Akhtar, Shaun Tait.

THATS IT.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

List of bowlers who have bowled over 150 km/h in the new millennium -

Shane Bond, Brett Lee, Nanti Haywood, Jason Gillespie, Shoaib Akhtar, Shaun Tait.

THATS IT.

I'd like to see the list for pre-2000.

 

[Richard]

Yeah... the whole 2 years of it!

 

[bond21]

off the top of my head -

Tyson, Larwood, Lindwall, Holding, Thomson, Lillee, Roberts, Marshall, Snow, Donald

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Shane Bond, Brett Lee, Nanti Haywood, Jason Gillespie, Shoaib Akhtar, Shaun Tait.

Tyson, Larwood, Lindwall, Holding, Thomson, Lillee, Roberts, Marshall, Snow, Donald

Yeah, they were both measured using the same accurate system.

Also, the 1st group is within 8yrs.
The 2nd group spans how many?

 

[Richard]

Yeah, they were both measured using the same accurate system.

Most of them weren't even measured. Some of them it's very much 50\50 whether they even bowled 150kph at all.

 

[bond21]

actually Larwood only bowled slow medium pace.

 

[Richard]

Actually you don't have a clue what he bowled. Most sensible suggestions would suggest he was probably about the sort of speeds Shoaib Akhtar can manage - just out of reach of Brett Lee, in other words.

 

[gettingbetter]

Dizzy reached those speeds?

 

[Son Of Coco]

Dizzy reached those speeds?

He was quick...Bracken said he was the quickest bowler he faced.

 

[Richard]

Dizzy reached those speeds?

Yeah, he could sometimes really crank it up. Recall very clearly him reaching 95mph in 2001 - thought the speed-gun was malfunctioning, but there were no other anomalaic results.

 

[roseboy64]

Didn't know Gillespie could bowl that fast. Also think one of Edwards, Lawson and Taylor have bowled that fast, most likely Castro. Harmison close to those levels too. Can't think of any sub-continental bowlers apart from Akhtar and maybe Sami who've bowled around those speeds. Steyn cranks it up though IIRC.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Zahid was apparantly very sharp.

 

[Richard]

Yeah I really wish he'd played a few years later. There was 1 series in something like 1996 where several batsmen, including Brian Lara and Aravinda de Silva, thought him more difficult to react to than anyone they'd faced. But by the time proper speedguns were invented, he'd been injured and was merely fairly quick (and rubbish with it BTW) rather than apparently lightning.

It'd be interesting to see whether he truly was 100mph material or whether it was just an awkward action making 95mph more difficult than normal.