Quickest bowlers of all-time by nation

[Jarquis]

They can but your front foot still has to land behind the popping crease, meaning the distance between ball being released and reaching the batsman is constant.

In the old rules it seems you would land your backfoot behind the _bowling_ crease, then drag it forward, and then plonk your front foot down well ahead of the popping crease to shorten the distance. And if you were taller, you get more benefit from it.

Or maybe I'm wrong again IDK

How are you dragging your back foot before you put your front foot down?

 

[Burgey]

Watch Lawson's bowling here. Gives you an idea how it works. If he landed just behind the bowling crease, his front foot would be beyond the front line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDgPMnGsZsw

Edit: This might be better, showing him from front on might give a better idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQD7rpQpm80

 

[Victor Ian]

That just looks so... weird??? He skates along on that back foot for a brief moment as if he had a ballerina's toe point with it's own engine. But it is smooth. I imagine, if he is sliding on it then he can't be imparting bone breaking stress through it. Just for the record, which foot are our weak modern bowlers getting their bone splints in?

Do we have any modern sliders?

 

[Burgey]

I had a slider at the Balmain Hotel the other night and it was quality.

Mostly they're no longer around though.

Which foot suffers bone splints really depends on the action of the bowler.

 

[Red]

I'm trying to imagine how someone would do the dragging thing, and failing miserably.

This explains it pretty well. Umpires used to watch the back foot instead of the front, but players would only be a quarter thru their delivery stride and would then drag thru another metre or more, making it a big front foot no-ball by modern rulings.

 

[Red]

This explains it pretty well. Umpires used to watch the back foot instead of the front, but players would only be a quarter thru their delivery stride and would then drag thru another metre or more, making it a big front foot no-ball by modern rulings.

Around 1.00-1.30 is the best footage of it.

 

[thierry henry]

One ball here in a David Frith video.

As an aside, anybody ever get the hint that Frith hates genuine quicks?

jeez, just watching a couple of blokes before and after Bartlett, plus Bartlett himself, and they are all chucking.

 

[cnerd123]

jeez, just watching a couple of blokes before and after Bartlett, plus Bartlett himself, and they are all chucking.

Man I was so expecting this to be a comment on Bartlett's height

 

[Starfighter]

jeez, just watching a couple of blokes before and after Bartlett, plus Bartlett himself, and they are all chucking.

It was in a segment talking about chucking bowlers.

 

[thierry henry]

Well ****...watching at work with no sound

 

[jimmy101]

Yeah, they talk about suspect bowlers up until Adcock. Great doco that one. Same with the other one they did - Great Batsmen.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

I only hope to see a 100Mph delivery bowl a batsman clean in my lifetime.

This was pretty close.

 

[Shri]

This was pretty close.

I meant live, while I am in a stadium watching a game.

 

[Binkley]

I see Chris Lynn has just said that the Aussie broadcasters juice the speed-gun for certain players to boost ratings:

Chris Lynn: Brendon McCullum gives the Heat confidence

Which probably means speed records should exclude any readings taken in that country.

 

[Daemon]

Lynn, who has played one ODI and five T20s, maintains playing for his country isn't his priority.

Somehow I don't think that's what he meant from the words they quoted.

 

[indiaholic]

Yeah seemed like he didn't care about test cricket, not Australian cricket as such?

 

[honestbharani]

Especially with his action. Run->Jump->Freeze midair with lips in a weird frown and the ball close to his face->Release.

Also had that little jump away from the umpire IIRC. Prabhakar used to do that too.

BTW, I was watching an old 94 game against NZ (maybe 93) where they were showing bowling speeds. Think it was not recorded off the hand but he was not that far off Srinath, who was decidedly quick back then. Srinath was the first real "fast" bowler we had in my time of watching cricket and Prabhakar was only 5 or so Ks off his speed.

 

[Zinzan]

Somehow I don't think that's what he meant from the words they quoted.

Yeah that was taken out of context, which i thought when i heard it that it would be.

He basically said that you can't blame modern day cricketers putting family first and choosing to play T20 tournaments ahead of Internationals. He did say he loves the opportunity to play for Australia, but if it doesn't work out it's not the end of his world. I thought it was refreshing as opposed to hearing the usual stuff about bleeding for their countries and not caring about any other cricket.

 

[honestbharani]

I didn't mix up bowling and popping crease. I speed read through wikipedia and assumed I understood the difference in rules when I posted it here when I clearly missed that subtle difference.

I'm a qualified umpired I know the difference plz.

Yes'd

 

[Migara]

Mostly agree..here's their fastest recorded speeds I could find

Aust - Lee 161.1 /Tait 161.1 /Thommo 160.6
England - Tyson - na
India - Srinath - 155.1
Pakistan - Akhtar – 161.3
SA - Steyn - 156.2 Brett Schultz - na
NZ - Bond - 156.4
West Indies - Andy Roberts - 159.5
Sri Lanka - Malinga - na
Zim - Streak - na
Bangers - Rubel - na

SL Malinga 156.5
ZIM - Andy Blignaut (Think he hit 91mph against WI)
BAN - Taskin Ahmed
AFG - Hassan (hit 148k, which was not at his fastest)