Teen pace levels

[Daemon]

MrPrez to upload a video of himself bowling.

[Prince EWS]

Originally Posted by Daemon

MrPrez to upload a video of himself bowling.

Good idea, Pratters.

[Daemon]

I don't get it, explain

[Prince EWS]

Originally Posted by Daemon

I don't get it, explain

Pratters infamously demanded that teenage forumer coverdriveman supply a picture. Went on for ages in one of the threads here; it was really creepy.

[Daemon]

Haha, weirdo. Maybe we should name this phenomenon Pratters law.

[Eloquentia]

Originally Posted by Daemon

MrPrez to upload a video of himself bowling.

[MrPrez]

How ironic that you post a picture of a bad-looking person up given you've admitted yourself that you're not a looker...

[Prince EWS]

Originally Posted by MrPrez

How ironic that you post a picture of a bad-looking person up given you've admitted yourself that you're not a looker...

He was actually taking the piss out of Daemon there, not you, because Finnigan got done for child porn. But it is indeed still ironic because Eloquentia asked you to post a video over on CS.

[MrPrez]

Oh.

Sorry skippos

[Neil Pickup]

Originally Posted by Eloquentia

I was one of the main sceptics on cricsim about Prez's claims - for a few reasons. One was that he'd posted a picture of him bowling and the keeper was a few metres back, at most. I've done a bit of keeping (a bit more recently, mind you) and I stand a few (~2-3) metres back to bowlers who bowl 105ish (relying on an estimate here mind you) and it carries comfortably to me on a decent deck.

Why would you stand there?

If someone's bowling at 100-105, and you're not standing up, the ball will carry properly 7-8 metres through on English wickets - standing 2-3 metres back is still virtually on the cut strip, gives you no reaction times, and negates stumpings.

[uvelocity]

someone get one of those gopro cameras on their head during a match stat

[Eloquentia]

Originally Posted by Neil Pickup

Why would you stand there?

If someone's bowling at 100-105, and you're not standing up, the ball will carry properly 7-8 metres through on English wickets - standing 2-3 metres back is still virtually on the cut strip, gives you no reaction times, and negates stumpings.

A lot of the blokes I come up against are experience lads (35+) who like to stand out of their crease to seamers. Standing further back means by the time I flick it back at the stumps, they're back in. I'll get a stumping a fornight off seamers by standing closer than I should just to do that.

Also, the ball doesn't carry that much - surprising given what you've said about English pitches and I'm in Australia. I don't struggling being that close... maybe it's just me, I guess. It's probably 4-5 metres back against the 105-110 lads, to be fair and 2-3 to the slightly slower ones.

[Prince EWS]

Originally Posted by Eloquentia

A lot of the blokes I come up against are experience lads (35+) who like to stand out of their crease to seamers. Standing further back means by the time I flick it back at the stumps, they're back in. I'll get a stumping a fornight off seamers by standing closer than I should just to do that.

Also, the ball doesn't carry that much - surprising given what you've said about English pitches and I'm in Australia. I don't struggling being that close... maybe it's just me, I guess. It's probably 4-5 metres back against the 105-110 lads, to be fair and 2-3 to the slightly slower ones.

Maybe they're just even slower than you think.

[Eloquentia]

Originally Posted by Prince EWS

Maybe they're just even slower than you think.

Haha, nah. One of the fellas I've been netting with for years & has been clocked at 120. He's not played for a coupla years and remodeled his action hence the conservative estimate of 105 but I reckon it could be higher.

Unlike Prez - there is speed gun evidence here heh.

[Daemon]

I've been clocked at 125kph in malaysia

fine was $450