Bumrah for me for shortest run up at pace
Akram also.
Akram had different run ups though. His usual one was not that short. Bumrah and Archer only seem to have the one run up.
No, we have a life.
Stole my thunder, reading half way down the page before seeing Willis mentioned surprised me. On those smaller NZ grounds I swear he almost started his run in from 5 meters inside the boundary
Come now, you've been here long enough to know that this isn't true.
Fred Trueman on Bob’s run-up: “Christ, I don’t go that far on my holidays.”
Craig White bowled very sharply from a short run-up. And although he never played international cricket again after his injuries, Simon Jones returned to T20 cricket in his later years and still bowled 90 mph without a run-up at all.
Dilley?
Yes indeed. Crazy long for someone who wasn't really all that fast as far as I recall. A bit like Murtagh and Hannon-Dalby in domestic cricket.
That's a bit mean. Dilley was way swifter than them, one of the sharper Pommy bowlers at the time. Not all that accurate though and had a lot of trouble with his action (not helped by coaches attempting to 'fix' it - where have we heard that one before?)
