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Haha yeah wtf. Mcgrath was not over 140 for much of his career unless 'much of his career' means his first 18 months or so.
And here you are, always with the correction in the holster. Heroic.Absurd. McGrath's supposed quickness gets more and more exaggerated every year. By the next telling we'll hear about how he was bowling at about 160 early in his career before slowing down to a moderate 145 in his last year or so.
**** and **** are censored too, which has always annoyed me because people probably think I'm saying ****.The ****, t i t s is censored?! FIlter is getting on my ****.
There was a fair bit in the deck in the second test. Even Siddle was moving them.the title suppose to be "curious case of Mohammad Abbas"
but seriously 17-180 in UAE for a seamer is unheard off even if its against a weakish batting side. Just can't put my finger on why he's got these freak numbers till now maybe its a testament to weak defensive batting techniques of modern batsman that is allowing bowlers like Abbas and Jadeja accurate bowlers with slight movement past both edges to make a killing.
Ah, yes the 2003 World Cup, back when Ashish Nehra was a 150 Km/h merchant.And here you are, always with the correction in the holster. Heroic.
For the record, McGrath was officially clocked at 143Km/h in the West Indies in 1995 and as he said in his autobiography, it was as fast as he was ever timed. He was always capable of the effort ball as we see with his final wicket here in 2003, clocked at the levels of Lee’s warm-up wheels, 142Km/h. Yes it was South Africa, yes everyone’s quicker there, yes it was a ODI, yes it was still 140+.
McG himself said he throttled back, not because he wasn’t capable of being quicker but he couldn’t sustain it for long enough to make it weapon bigger than the bounce and seam he got at slower speeds.
Everyone can calm their **** now. No one has ever seriously claimed McG was some hidden speed demon.
Can't overlook this. Shouldn't take anything away from him though.He bowls to good plans, a bit like Asif I suppose and so far he's bowled to some frail batting lineups.
This isn't quite true. McGrath never bowled a ball over 140 since I started watching cricket (1999). 135 was about as quick as he got for the last 8 years of his career. I heard McGrath was quicker in his first few years but it would have only lasted a few years at most.McGrath was a shade over 140 for much of his career. In the last year or two his pace dropped to somewhere closer to 135. He was faster than Clark who bowled 135 regularly. But he was never express pace.
It’s not.Its the first time apart from Anderson I have seen a seamer get consistent success in UAE through a series so really curious what he has done so differently to all these other guys maybe it’s a weak aus batting line up but I really can’t put my finger on one particular reason.this is such a jinxing thread.
I expect Abbas to average 30+ in his next series
How does this work? I thought speed guns measured pace out of the hand effectively. Remember seeing a pace analysis of a Brett Lee ball once that was clocked at about 150 but had slowed to about 125 by the time it actually got to the batsman - think this was during the 2006/7 AshesAlso I've read bouncy pace (nip) shows up slower on speed guns than it appears when you're facing it compared to skiddy pace.
http://www.espn.in/cricket/story/_/id/21871997/why-mcgrath-was-faster-thinkHow does this work? I thought speed guns measured pace out of the hand effectively. Remember seeing a pace analysis of a Brett Lee ball once that was clocked at about 150 but had slowed to about 125 by the time it actually got to the batsman - think this was during the 2006/7 Ashes
It's bollocks.The physics of fast: Why McGrath was faster than you think - ESPN
Basically this article is what I was talking about. I'm unsure how true it is.