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Teen pace levels

MrPrez

International Debutant
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

Global Moderator
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. :p
 
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Neil Pickup

Cricket Web Moderator
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.
 

Eloquentia

U19 12th Man
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

Global Moderator
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

U19 12th Man
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.
 

wellAlbidarned

International Coach
Oh god some estimates are ridiculous. Played a team with a guy reported to bowl at 130. Nowhere ****ing near it. If it's not beating me purely for pace, then it's not going to be anything above 115kph because I'm pretty damn amateur. The **** got me with an absolute jaffa though, pitched leg and jagged away to hit off.
 

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