Bowling styles (RF, RMF...)

[Mingster]

I'm confused with these.

Cricinfo seems to name everyone fast-medium when clearlythey are not, while Channel Nine seems to have it bang on.

Here's my version, it would help if you could include some examples:

Fast (145+) - Bond, Lee, Shoaib

Fast-medium (135-145) - Butler, Gillespie, Zaheer, Williams

Medium-fast (125-135) - Oram, Agarkar, Pathan, Mills, Cairns, Styris

Medium (125-) - Harvey, Bangar, M Walker, Symonds

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

Off spinner,Leg spinner and SLA/SRA:Vettori,Warne,Kaneria, Muralitharan.

just a few.

Would tuffey be Medium fast or fast medium?

 

[Mingster]

Tuffey should be medium-fast. But they call him fast-medium.

McGrath is a bit of a between.

 

[Richard]

F, FM, MF and M (and indeed S) is always open to change and misreading.
LA, RA, wristspin and fingerspin is all much simpler.

 

[Neil Pickup]

And more to the point, which way round are MF and FM?

Logically, MF should be faster than FM as in MF, medium is the adjective of fast (slightly mediumer-than-fast) and in FM, it's slightly faster-than-medium.

 

[Armadillo]

And more to the point, which way round are MF and FM?

Logically, MF should be faster than FM as in MF, medium is the adjective of fast (slightly mediumer-than-fast) and in FM, it's slightly faster-than-medium.

Y..E..S

 

[Gaijin-san]

Logically, MF should be faster than FM as in MF, medium is the adjective of fast (slightly mediumer-than-fast) and in FM, it's slightly faster-than-medium.

He's right there.

 

[Salamuddin]

IF Fast-medium is taken to be quicker than medium-fast (as seems to be the case on tv), then AA should be in the fast-medium category.

In the Sydney test, AA sent a ball down at 146 km/hr and he's often over the 140 km'hr mark in short spells in odi's and occasionally tests.

 

[twctopcat]

I see what you mean but medium-fast tries to define those bowlers in the medium to fast bracket (i.e 80-85mph), whilst the fast-medium tells of those bowling slower than fast(85-90ish mph). It is just a method of distinguishing two different brackets of the 80-90mph range, useless and trivial i know, as some bowlers can cover this entire range, depending on their mood (caddick sometimes:P ).

 

[Richard]

And more to the point, which way round are MF and FM?

Logically, MF should be faster than FM as in MF, medium is the adjective of fast (slightly mediumer-than-fast) and in FM, it's slightly faster-than-medium.

True, but until everyone agrees it's impossible to change it.