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A time were a 100 mph bowl is average. If you look at it the average bowling speed has been increasing throughout history but how far can it go?
AWTA.Average speeds may have increased but I dont think top speeds have.
There maybe more guys bowling 140 kph than 50 years ago but there is the same number bowling 165 kph. ie 0.
I agree.I doubt if speeds are increasing- in fact, ever since speed-guns were introduced, bowlers have been bowling a lot slower with time.
Hilarious guesses, might I add. Some of the speeds I've heard people predict for some pre-90s bowlers are just classic.The guns that measure the speed of the ball.
They were introduced for the first time in 1998. Before then, no-one really knew accurately how fast bowlers bowled, there were merely guesses.
Thanks.The guns that measure the speed of the ball.
They were introduced for the first time in 1998. Before then, no-one really knew accurately how fast bowlers bowled, there were merely guesses.
AWTAI agree.
Everyone knows before the speed guns were bought in everyone bowled at at least 170km/h. Jeff Thomson's quicker ball was 240km/h while his slower ball was 200km/h. We are in a dire age of bowling with bowlers who bowl at dire speeds.
There's no reason, as far as I see, to presume standard "fast" was any different now to 75 years ago. I'd imagine it was and has always been 90mph-ish (or 140kph-ish - 87.5mph - depending on your preferred measurement).Hilarious guesses, might I add. Some of the speeds I've heard people predict for some pre-90s bowlers are just classic.
I do not see how the few readings prior to 1998 can be inaccurate since they are simply measuring the speed of the ball from the hand, with a much greater effort than now - since it was rarer and a bigger deal back then. I remember reading in Lillee's book on the top release speeds in a given Test match of Australia Vs West Indies in 1985:They were introduced for the first time in 1998. Before then, no-one really knew accurately how fast bowlers bowled, there were merely guesses.
Okay, the date was a guess because it was when the book was written. It is called The Art of Fast Bowling, if you think I am lying. It is my cousin's book and I merely borrowed it so cannot give accurate details at this point in time.I'd like to know how these were taken if no-one else had managed to do the same thing for another 2 decades.
BTW, I'd imagine the Test involved was probably 1979\80 or 1981\82 (or possibly 1975\76). Australia played West Indies in 1984 and 1984\85, then 1988\89 and 1991, and Lillee was gone from Australia's team by the time of the first of those.
This one's pretty fast...Ok I'm going to sound stupid here but what are speed guns?
Possibly the same way we miraculously judged players actions at the Champions Trophy a few years back from video etc and declared 99% of bowling actions up to that point illegal, only to revert to biomechanical testing again afterwards due to the innacuracy of video.I'd like to know how these were taken if no-one else had managed to do the same thing for another 2 decades.
BTW, I'd imagine the Test involved was probably 1979\80 or 1981\82 (or possibly 1975\76). Australia played West Indies in 1984 and 1984\85, then 1988\89 and 1991, and Lillee was gone from Australia's team by the time of the first of those.
If you refuse to believe that Ewen Chatfield regularly bowled at 200km/h, then you're beyond help.Hilarious guesses, might I add. Some of the speeds I've heard people predict for some pre-90s bowlers are just classic.
I was at the ground when a ball Max Walker bowled in Brisbane in 1973 broke all three stumps, killed the wicketkeeper, and put the entire front row either side of the scoreboard into a coma. A pre-pre-speed gun estimate clocked him at 485mph. The delivery was so quick every spectator sitting side-on to the pitch sported a hairstyle that was windblown towards the striker's end. I feel very lucky to have survived that day.If you refuse to believe that Ewen Chatfield regularly bowled at 200km/h, then you're beyond help.