Fairly sure I saw Brett Lee bowl 161 kph one day, Napier I think.
Fairly sure I saw Brett Lee bowl 161 kph one day, Napier I think.
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Fastest from Bond I remember is 155.5 kph vs. Zim in the '03 WC.
Nah, it was a length ball... then Lee did this incredibly cheesy "my heart will live on"-style celebration.
Ind33dy. Good ball, and pretty sharp, but what beat Flintoff was the in-movement, not the length.
Very odd list, missing a few names i feel.
During Bond's spell of 5/25 vs Australia in 2002 i'm very sure he was up around 157 kph. I also remember seeing Mohammad Sami (dont know if the knock went wrong that day) during the memorable ODI series vs IND in 04 bowling a deliveried clocked @ 100.6 mph to Ganguly very recently Tait was up to 100 mph & i distincly remember Harmison getting up to 96 mph vs WI in an ODI @ Southampton in 04.
Harmison's only game at The Rose Bowl in 2004 was against Sri Lanka, not West Indies. He bowled extremely fast that year against both them (West Indies) at Headingley and New Zealand at The Riverside, however. I myself recall him clocking 96mph in the latter.
I don't recall him bowling especially fast at The Rose Bowl against Sri Lanka, though, although he did take 6-21-2. But no-one needed to bowl fast on such a seam-friendly surface.
There's a video on youtube about the development of technology relating to bowling speeds
Jeff Thomson was recorded ONCE in his entire career during a match and recorded 161.45 ks.
He also easily won the world's fastest bowler competition against Holding, Imran, Lillee Roberts etc etc etc (albeit only at about 149 ks) despite not having played a competitive match in 9 months and being fat as a fool due to his ban
I think it's fair to say that he was the quickest of the modern era by some distance
I cannot see all those thunderbolts sent by Malinga as wel. Got up to 154-155 range in New Zealand and in VB series, he was the second fastest behing Brett Lee, going up to 154, and going pass Ishant Sharma very easily.
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