@@wallerstc I did answer this once but it got lost in cyberspace I think! 69 is not old!! 😄 .... trying to see our 8 grandchildren as often as possible, volunteer work, gardening, painting.... I only watch the cricket on TV nowadays 🤗
The thing with bowling and throwing in baseball is that, in cricket they can't bend their arm (can't throw the ball) instead they have to roll their arm over without bending, that is the reason baseball pitchers gets 100mph but its not easy in cricket.
@@kartikyadav4603 but, a ball traveling at that speed coming at you after bouncing is scarier than being able able to track a ball coming on the full. I bet the reaction time in cricket to be able to track the ball is lesser.
@@CrookedKnight-xl4nn Not to mention it can be legally pitched at your head . In cricket as a batsman you have to pick up on that length as well as the line , plus react to any deviation off the pitch . Imagine in cricket if the bowler had to bowl full tosses within the hitting zone. 🤣
@@kartikyadav4603 22 yards is stump tk stump. It is actually 19 yards max in reality, less if the batsman is setting up further down the pitch as some do
Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan holds the record for the fastest ball ever bowled in cricket, at 161.3 kilometers per hour (100.2 miles per hour). Akhtar delivered the ball against England during a World Cup match in Cape Town, South Africa on February 22, 2003.
Sylvester Clarke was timed at 101.5mph using military radar equipment in a South African rebel test at the Wanderers. Id venture that he probably bowled quicker than that at other times. When he was in the mood ,he could bowl very quickly.
He also played in my local league in the mid to late 1990's in Northern Ireland. I think it was the year before the World Cup in England. As Shoaib played for Strabane, Neil Johnson of Zimbabwe played with my team Sion Mills and Ridley Jacobs from the West Indies played with Eglinton. Akhtar was rapid then but did play against one team where he ended up with 0-90 odd in 10 overs. Let's just say he enjoyed the local hospitality a bit too much.
Mitch Johnson was bowling at Stuart Broad, English fast bowler. That looks he gave back to Mitch was saying 'Ok, if that's how you're gonna bowl at me, I'll have my turn...'
@TheDegan79 yeah, maybe, not sure how he did against Broady tho. That said, have the utmost respect for Mitch. What a legend! Great battler, always up for it. Miss him in the game.
The "Full Toss" that lands on the batter's feet is called a "Yorker". An actual "Full Toss" doesn't land at all but arrives at the Batsman in the air, usually at around the level of the shin (for an attempted "LBW") The "Yorker" is a great weapon to have as it forces the Batter to move his feet (against his will) and destroy his rhythm. A rule of thumb, and something that every teenager learning to drive a car knows, is that 160 km/h is 100 mph. Every teenager remembers that first time that they clocked the Speedo at 160.
Hey guys, the west indies team hhad some of the great fast bowlers. Wes hall, patrick patterson, malcolm marshall, michael holding, andy roberts, Courtney walsh, curtley ambrose, just to name a very few. Look up the names on TH-cam.
Yorker - right at the batsman’s feet. Starc bowls an excellent Yorker. Usually when the ball is full of a length like that it won’t come up much off the deck, that’s the idea. You’re trying to either trap the batsman through his guard or on the pads for lb. Englishman here, so no pleasure in saying this but Starc is one of the form bowlers in test cricket at the moment.
Shane Bond was an incredible bowler, with a career shortened by injury and playing in a rebel league for a while which disqualified him from international games for that period. He was fast and accurate. He was also one of the few who never had any questions about the legality of his bowling action(typically being an issue with bowlers bending their arms). Definitely the biggest "what could've been" in NZ cricket. He averaged a wicket every 21-22 runs in test & ODI cricket, which is incredible. He was even better against Australia in ODIs, which was especially popular here. His fastest recorded delivery was also 156.4, not 153. They also quite often swung, and swung late.
I just wanna point soemthing out @8:54 scoreboard notes "Overs: 0.4" - That's the FIRST over of the innings! 🫣 If I was batting the very last thing I want to see in the opening over is the bowler regularly hitting ~100mph. Crikey!
Brett Lee is the reason I fell in love with cricket. The match was 2011 final, India vs Australia. Binga (that's Brett's nickname) tried to stop a boundary, slid and the ball hit right above his eyebrow. He went off the field, blood dripping down his face, few moments later, comes back with a tape on the wound and back in the game. Australia lost but they gained a fan, especially Binga.
Mitch Starc is the only one on this list still playing - currently 34 years old and has been an integral part of Australia's bowling attack (alongside Cummins, Hazlewood and Lyon) for the best part of the last decade, who combined have taken 1470 wickets between them! Starc (358 wickets) is currently sitting 4th all time behind Warne, McGrath and Lyon for most wickets in test matches by an Australian. For context as well - Mitch Johnson is 6th (313 wickets), Brett Lee is 7th (310 wickets), Hazlewood is 9th (273 wickets) and Cummins is 10th (269 wickets). A great video to react to would be Mitchell Johnson's 37 wickets in the 2013/14 Ashes series (37 wickets in 5 matches!!!) Some of the most aggressive, intimidating bowling you'll see from the last decade.
For accuracy check out Richard Hadlee. For swing check out Wasim Akram. For menace check out Joel Garner. And of course for spin magic it has to be the great Shane Warne.
Hadlee also started out surprisingly fast, but he slowed it down and focused on accuracy. He was even one of those that competed in a speed competition back in 1979.
shoiab akhtar and brett lee both has delivered countless balls at more than 158 kph speed on regular basis but unfortunately when we see cricket highlights we only watch sixes, fours and wickets.
You should check out the 1979 West Indies, most feared bowling force you will ever see, imagine being the opposition to this. Joel Garner(Big Bird, 6.8Height Fast), Micheal Holding(Whispering Death, 6.4Height Fast), Colin Croft(Smiling Assassin, 6.5height Fast), Malcolm Marshall( 5.11Height Fast), Anderson Roberts(Hitman 6.2Height Fast). By the way, this is just the bowling lineup, I think there would be no shame in faking an injury.
You asked for a Starc compilation - have a look at this set of yorkers v=24WAzwcJQh4 You mentioned that Starc's ball didn't bounce much and you're right that it was because it was full, so the angles mean it won't rise up so much (unless the pitch is dangerous and the ball hits a crack in the ground or something) - in fact Starc is well known for this particular delivery, the yorker, it's why he's taken so many wickets. When a yorker misses the mark it's easy to hit for runs though so it's high risk and can sometimes be expensive, which is why not everyone does it.
Shoal Aktar was a great competitor, fiery but a great sport. Always great matches when he played our Australian team he certainly shook up our batters a bit.
A yorker is a delivery pitched up at the batsman's toes & a bouncer is a ball pitched at a bit shorter at length & speed by the bowler so he can get the elevation...bowler's will change up each ball bowled in their over e.g. speed & length to confuse the batsman
Good to see Andy Roberts in there, but his bowling partner, Whispering Death ( Michael Holding ) was much quicker. Also from the West Indies was the great Wes Hall.....as fast as Thompson and maybe quicker but from the 1960's and black n white tv / newsreels. The quickest i ever saw was Dennis Lillee in 1971 / 72. Much quicker than Thompson , but caused fractures in his spine.....fast bowling tears the spine and back to pieces. The Lillee we all remember is after he let his spine and back heal, and then his freakish comeback at a reduced pace, but so accurate and often unplayable. Batsman combated Lillee by refusing to play at the ball unless it was going to hit the stumps.....because he was so quick, most balls were always going to bounce too high to ever hit the stumps, unless overpitched ( bowled too full ).
Because they're bowling, the cricket pitch or wicket can be fast or slow. For example, in Australia the pitch in Perth, Western Australia, is notoriously very fast, and gets lots of bounce. In the 1970s the West Indian cricket team had 4 of the best fast bowlers ever, and on a fast wicket they were almost unplayable. Whereas in India the pitches tend to be slower but the ball spins and turns massively, creating a different challenge for the batsman.
You have to remember that in Jeff Thompsons time the speed was measured at the batsman not at the release of the bowler as they do today his balls were still faster than any modern speed bowler
Great reaction. I do love the fast bowlers, but the best are the fast and accurate bowlers. From that list I would take out Tate and Thompson (though I love both dearly) Johnson had good and bad periods over his career, Starc, Roberts, Akhtar, and Lee were consistent in speed and accuracy over their entire careers. The other group of interesting mid - fast bowlers are the very tall, like Joel Garner, Glenn McGrath, Jason Gillespie, Cameron Green, they are not express but their height gives the ability to deliver the ball at an angle that is not easy to play. These guys were usually extremely consistent in accuracy and got a majority of wickets from the batsmen becoming frustrated with not scoring causing them to play much riskier shots, normally ending in the fall of their wicket.
@@TheDegan79 Yeah agreed, at his peak Thommo was brutal. Given the vast majority of his bowling was never timed, I personally wouldn't be surprised if he was the quickest bowler of all time.
@@deanwimbridge9318 Thommo with his sling shot action was super quick. Funny bloke too; when asked about whether the batsmen were able to pick where his deliveries were going at that speed, he answered "mate, I don't know where they're going, let alone the batsmen". 😄😄😄j
One thing to bear in mind guys is the " hardness" of the pitch. If it's been under baking sun for days on end it can be like playing on concrete & that ball can pick up speed from the bounce, plus you must remember the batsman at the other end is only some 18/19 yards away not 22(that's the distance between the "stumps") so he can have about 1/2 second or less to judge speed, height of bounce, or no bounce, angle, curve & anything else the bowler and or pitch can "throw" at him. You really don't want to get hit anywhere (especially in the groin area & yes you do have protection) at 95-100mph with a ball harder than a baseball, so your reaction has to be almost instantaneous. Bloody difficult believe me, I've been hit by bowlers slower than these guys you are showing & had the bruises to prove it. Good to see you guys learning more about the 2nd biggest game on the planet after football, soccer to you, nice one 😊
Lee and Akhtar were the most consistently fast with accuracy but as for the fastest ever Thompson is arguably the fastest . It was only at the end of his career that they had the tech to accurately measure the speed and even then I believe it was measured at the batsmans crease not out of his hand. He used to say he didn't know where it was going to go so what hope did the batsmen have . As for comparing baseball to cricket a base ball is considerably lighter and softer than a cricket ball so obviously the base ball pitcher is going to generate more speed.
There is another aspect to the recording of speed in bowling. The equipment divides the length of the pitch, by the time the ball takes to travel it. As we all know, the fast way from point a to point b is a straight line. A cricket bowl is anything but a straight line. So, depending on factors like the height of the bowler, and how full it is pitched, the ball travels a lot further that the actual length of the pitch. In comparison, a baseball pitch is a lot closer to a straight line. A cricket ball’s actual speed will be considerably faster then what the speed gun shows.
A great recommendation for an aggressive spell of fast bowling would be Alan Donald vs Mike Atherton, late 90s ish? 2005 Brett Lee to Kevin Pietersen another at the Oval, or more recently, Mark Wood at Headingley to Khawaja and Marnus in the Ashes (I think Woods slowest ball of his spell was 93mph!)
I was at an odi game in Port of Spain. WI vs Aus and in the first ball, Ambrose got an edge that went for 4. He was pissed. Pissed! It was the only runs in his 4 over opening spell. The opening batsmen couldn't hit anything. They couldn't even manage another edge.
You guys should really watch Sachin's desert storm innings in Sharjah against Australia in 1998. It's arguably the best ever innings ever played in ODI cricket. I would say both the final as well as the qualifying match for the final are worth a watch. Watching it live has a special place in my heart.
A baseball weighs between a quarter and a half ounce lass than a cricket ball. The lower end of MLB baseballs are what a Junior size cricket ball weighs.
Brett Lee was bowling the first over of the innings, so that probably helped with his accelleration in speed, but first time seeing one of your cricket videos, I love that you guys actually know what you're talking about even if you don't know the history you have watched enough to understand the nuances of it. Not so much an out and out fast bowler, but Simon Jones in the ashes in 2005 would be a good one to look at, as in fact if that entire series
Also the cricket ball is usually pitched off the ground further flowing it down on the other hand those missiles come alot closer to the batsman who is literally in the direct line of fire.
Guys you might like to check this for future commentary. When the bowler bowls it is called a ball. Commentators will say 'good bowling or good ball' not 'good bowl'. Good placement - NO. Good line and length - YES.
It's actually easier to get faster as the over goes on. Bowling has a lot to do with getting the run up right and rhythm through the crease. Rhythm is the key to fast bowling. Get that right and then you can put in maximum effort. I used to start singing "Rhythm is a dancer" in the field when one of my fellow bowlers was struggling to remind them to get their run up right.
Ok, you asked about Brett Lee vids to respond to..... definitely definitely check out him bowling at journalist Piers Morgan. Piers had criticised the England batsman in the press and he agreed to face Lee to show them how it was done. Morgan could have been seriously injured, I doubt it would be allowed today. He ends up (unknown to him) with a broken rib but finishes off facing the over in the nets in front of a large gallery of cheering Aussies. It is fascinating viewing and puts into context what facing a bowler like Brett Lee would be for a "normal" person. Give it a reaction, you won't regret it.
Men there are different types of grips you hold ball with every grip reaction is different when ball hits the ground inswing, out swing, reverse swing, knuckle,hook knuckle,fade grip, hidden grip
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Guys appreciate your coverage of cricket. You may need someone who knows cricket that can explain to your non-cricketing audience. There are nuances that can explain what the bowlers intended.
Jeff Thompson was said to have, "unofficially" bowled 170 kmh many years ago but never confirmed! Even Dennis Lillee was scared of his bowling, said he was so fast but not accurate!!
The consensus is that the fastest was probably Jeff Thompson in his prime. He was a tad faster than any of the West Indians. The speed gun tech was rare at the time and they really only measured his speed later in his career after he had slowed down slightly. With speed if it's a bouncer it will tend to register as slower - it's just they way the angles work with the measurements - slightly shorter people with lower flat deliveries will often register as a bit faster than those deliveries from taller men or bouncers - like I said just the angles the tech measures the balls speed at.
It's strange how bowling has become slower even though athleticism has increased greatly . Jeff Thompson 99mph shoaib akthar 100mph, sylvester Clark, Michael holding , sean tait all 95mph plus , these days mark wood and maybe nortje capable of regular 94 mph. Imagine facing the former list without head protection compared to full padding these days.
Well I don’t know where you are getting your info but a baseball is 5.25lb and a cricket ball is 5.5 to 5.75 lbs so my maths says that’s at least 1/4lb heavier 🤔 we use metric system in my country though so yeah 😂
Coming from a cricket background I am impressed at the shape of the baseball bat, and the pitching speeds are higher compared to cricket. So the accuracy, hand eye coordination, swing strength required for the game is phenomenal. But cricket there are a lot more variables, the pitch, ball speed, swing, bounce, even weather factors like dew, wind speed. So cricket, I feel you need to be a slightly more luckier than in a baseball game. Of course both games require immense amount of skill.
baseball you know that 99.8% of the time you will never be hit by the ball, cricket the bowler can bowl also aim at the body or the head! (2 bouncers per over)
when it cones to bounce it depends where you are playing. if you are playing in perth in Australia you will get hige bounce. In south africa & Australia they play on jard ptches with lots of bounce. in the sub continent (india, Pakistan, sri lanka & Bangladesh) you are playing on slower wickets so less bounce. In the west indies you get bounce and hard pitches, meanwhile is England you are getting bounce to maybe the top of the wickets but you get more swing and movement in England.
Sylvester Clarke was timed at 101.5 mph during a rebel South African test in the 80s using police radar equipment,highly accurate. He probably bowled quicker than that at other times in his career without being timed. His secret was bowling within himself and then to unleash his quicker one when least expected. Sometimes he would bowl a super quick spell if he wanted to. Especially if he didnt like an opposition batsman.
Playing in the South African domestic league, Transvaal once needed ten runs off the last ball with Sylvester Clarke at the crease. The bowler bowled a no-ball that Clarke hit for four, so that was five runs down. Then he hit the last ball for six and was carried off on the fans' shoulders, who could not believe what they had just seen.
Police radar wasn't highly accurate, there were constant complaints about fluctuations in reported speeds for decades - including players bowling in another country & suddenly all being recorded faster or slower.
Would love to know what Thommo (Jeff Thomson from Australia) would be clocked at using current tech. Saw him at the Gabba many times hitting the sight screen on the full which I can't recall anyone else doing. Like your videos guys but FFS can you stop calling bowling THROWING!!!!
Most of the way the ball performs is by the way the bowler rolls his fingers over the seam on the ball and they polish one side of the ball to make it swing in the air
As a young woman (I'm now 68) I used to go to the MCG and watch Lillee and Thommo 😊
As old lady wat r u upto now😂
@@wallerstc I did answer this once but it got lost in cyberspace I think! 69 is not old!! 😄
.... trying to see our 8 grandchildren as often as possible, volunteer work, gardening, painting.... I only watch the cricket on TV nowadays 🤗
The thing with bowling and throwing in baseball is that, in cricket they can't bend their arm (can't throw the ball) instead they have to roll their arm over without bending, that is the reason baseball pitchers gets 100mph but its not easy in cricket.
@@kartikyadav4603 but, a ball traveling at that speed coming at you after bouncing is scarier than being able able to track a ball coming on the full. I bet the reaction time in cricket to be able to track the ball is lesser.
@@CrookedKnight-xl4nn Not to mention it can be legally pitched at your head . In cricket as a batsman you have to pick up on that length as well as the line , plus react to any deviation off the pitch . Imagine in cricket if the bowler had to bowl full tosses within the hitting zone. 🤣
@@CrookedKnight-xl4nn yes cricket ball come very fast after hitting the pitch ball comes very quick with little swing not easy to judge
@@CrookedKnight-xl4nnYes that is true, you only have 22 yards even minding the swing of ball. Reaction time goes to some just less than a second.
@@kartikyadav4603 22 yards is stump tk stump. It is actually 19 yards max in reality, less if the batsman is setting up further down the pitch as some do
Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan holds the record for the fastest ball ever bowled in cricket, at 161.3 kilometers per hour (100.2 miles per hour). Akhtar delivered the ball against England during a World Cup match in Cape Town, South Africa on February 22, 2003.
Sylvester Clarke was timed at 101.5mph using military radar equipment in a South African rebel test at the Wanderers.
Id venture that he probably bowled quicker than that at other times. When he was in the mood ,he could bowl very quickly.
@@relevantbrother8964 And they only ever estimated Jeff Thompson's speed...
Sean Tait wasn't far behind with a 161.1 kph, I think.
@@relevantbrother8964 Now that dude was underrated!
He also played in my local league in the mid to late 1990's in Northern Ireland. I think it was the year before the World Cup in England. As Shoaib played for Strabane, Neil Johnson of Zimbabwe played with my team Sion Mills and Ridley Jacobs from the West Indies played with Eglinton. Akhtar was rapid then but did play against one team where he ended up with 0-90 odd in 10 overs. Let's just say he enjoyed the local hospitality a bit too much.
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Yes ,but he did bend his arm!!!
That Brett lee one is the first over of the match. So to increase at that rate for a new batsman is crazy.
Michael Holding - also known as Whispering Death. Joel Garner, Curtly Ambrose
These guys, for Americans, are starting to show they know what they are talking about.
Mitch Johnson was bowling at Stuart Broad, English fast bowler.
That looks he gave back to Mitch was saying 'Ok, if that's how you're gonna bowl at me, I'll have my turn...'
Yeah but Johnson was a better batter than Broad... lol. Bring it on...
@TheDegan79 yeah, maybe, not sure how he did against Broady tho.
That said, have the utmost respect for Mitch. What a legend! Great battler, always up for it. Miss him in the game.
Remember English fans got to Johnson when not bowling well in a test
He bowls to the left
He bowls to the right -
Last line I'm unwilling to recite 😂
@@cathyb46 I'm pretty sure it ends in shite. lol
@@cathyb46 wasn't that the series before he bowled Trott into a mental breakdown and made Broad permanently incapable of facing fast bowling?
The "Full Toss" that lands on the batter's feet is called a "Yorker". An actual "Full Toss" doesn't land at all but arrives at the Batsman in the air, usually at around the level of the shin (for an attempted "LBW") The "Yorker" is a great weapon to have as it forces the Batter to move his feet (against his will) and destroy his rhythm.
A rule of thumb, and something that every teenager learning to drive a car knows, is that 160 km/h is 100 mph. Every teenager remembers that first time that they clocked the Speedo at 160.
@@mikeythehat6693 When I was in my teens no such thing as km/h Their was KP nuts
Lillee & Thommo, great bowling combo, but hard to go against the WIndies of Roberts, Holding, Marshall & Big Bird Joel Garner
Hey guys, the west indies team hhad some of the great fast bowlers. Wes hall, patrick patterson, malcolm marshall, michael holding, andy roberts, Courtney walsh, curtley ambrose, just to name a very few. Look up the names on TH-cam.
Hi Zach and Non! Brett Lee was my favourite(intimidating pace) He was a handy batman as well.Great reaction!
Yorker - right at the batsman’s feet.
Starc bowls an excellent Yorker.
Usually when the ball is full of a length like that it won’t come up much off the deck, that’s the idea. You’re trying to either trap the batsman through his guard or on the pads for lb.
Englishman here, so no pleasure in saying this but Starc is one of the form bowlers in test cricket at the moment.
Andy Roberts was one of 4 very quick West Indian bowlers the 70's the others were Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding, and Joel Garner
For a batting exhibition watch Nathan Astles 222 vs England. amazing hitting display that went on for hours.
I was at that test match. Incredible innings which still hasn't been beaten for time to 200.
Shane Bond was an incredible bowler, with a career shortened by injury and playing in a rebel league for a while which disqualified him from international games for that period. He was fast and accurate. He was also one of the few who never had any questions about the legality of his bowling action(typically being an issue with bowlers bending their arms).
Definitely the biggest "what could've been" in NZ cricket. He averaged a wicket every 21-22 runs in test & ODI cricket, which is incredible. He was even better against Australia in ODIs, which was especially popular here.
His fastest recorded delivery was also 156.4, not 153. They also quite often swung, and swung late.
I just wanna point soemthing out @8:54 scoreboard notes "Overs: 0.4" - That's the FIRST over of the innings! 🫣 If I was batting the very last thing I want to see in the opening over is the bowler regularly hitting ~100mph. Crikey!
Shoaib Akhtar from Pakistan is my all-time favorite bowler
Brett Lee is the reason I fell in love with cricket. The match was 2011 final, India vs Australia. Binga (that's Brett's nickname) tried to stop a boundary, slid and the ball hit right above his eyebrow. He went off the field, blood dripping down his face, few moments later, comes back with a tape on the wound and back in the game. Australia lost but they gained a fan, especially Binga.
Mitch Starc is the only one on this list still playing - currently 34 years old and has been an integral part of Australia's bowling attack (alongside Cummins, Hazlewood and Lyon) for the best part of the last decade, who combined have taken 1470 wickets between them! Starc (358 wickets) is currently sitting 4th all time behind Warne, McGrath and Lyon for most wickets in test matches by an Australian. For context as well - Mitch Johnson is 6th (313 wickets), Brett Lee is 7th (310 wickets), Hazlewood is 9th (273 wickets) and Cummins is 10th (269 wickets).
A great video to react to would be Mitchell Johnson's 37 wickets in the 2013/14 Ashes series (37 wickets in 5 matches!!!) Some of the most aggressive, intimidating bowling you'll see from the last decade.
For accuracy check out Richard Hadlee. For swing check out Wasim Akram. For menace check out Joel Garner. And of course for spin magic it has to be the great Shane Warne.
Hadlee also started out surprisingly fast, but he slowed it down and focused on accuracy. He was even one of those that competed in a speed competition back in 1979.
That Shaun Tait over was efing amazing! It was almost the same as the Brett Lee over.
shoiab akhtar and brett lee both has delivered countless balls at more than 158 kph speed on regular basis but unfortunately when we see cricket highlights we only watch sixes, fours and wickets.
React to Shoaib akhtar bowling
Wasim Akram is my all time favorite. Followed by Dale Steyn
12:20 there is one player you should check out is whispering death, that's Michael Holding off the West Indies
You need to watch Mitchell Johnson vs England in the Ashes - 38 wickets across 5 matches
made great players admit they retired from fear
Bumrah is more like a Glen McGrath style bowler. Not necessarily the fastest (not slow either), but repeatedly putting it in difficult spots.
hats off guys you dont only give reactions but also share logical opinions
You should check out the 1979 West Indies, most feared bowling force you will ever see, imagine being the opposition to this. Joel Garner(Big Bird, 6.8Height Fast), Micheal Holding(Whispering Death, 6.4Height Fast), Colin Croft(Smiling Assassin, 6.5height Fast), Malcolm Marshall( 5.11Height Fast), Anderson Roberts(Hitman 6.2Height Fast). By the way, this is just the bowling lineup, I think there would be no shame in faking an injury.
You asked for a Starc compilation - have a look at this set of yorkers v=24WAzwcJQh4
You mentioned that Starc's ball didn't bounce much and you're right that it was because it was full, so the angles mean it won't rise up so much (unless the pitch is dangerous and the ball hits a crack in the ground or something) - in fact Starc is well known for this particular delivery, the yorker, it's why he's taken so many wickets. When a yorker misses the mark it's easy to hit for runs though so it's high risk and can sometimes be expensive, which is why not everyone does it.
Brett Lee was the most consistent with fast bowling,
He clicked 160kmph+ 9 times in his career more than any other fast bowler on this planet.
Shoal Aktar was a great competitor, fiery but a great sport. Always great matches when he played our Australian team he certainly shook up our batters a bit.
A yorker is a delivery pitched up at the batsman's toes & a bouncer is a ball pitched at a bit shorter at length & speed by the bowler so he can get the elevation...bowler's will change up each ball bowled in their over e.g. speed & length to confuse the batsman
It wasn't full toss it was yorker that mitchell stark bowled.
Good to see Andy Roberts in there, but his bowling partner, Whispering Death ( Michael Holding ) was much quicker.
Also from the West Indies was the great Wes Hall.....as fast as Thompson and maybe quicker but from the 1960's and black n white tv / newsreels.
The quickest i ever saw was Dennis Lillee in 1971 / 72.
Much quicker than Thompson , but caused fractures in his spine.....fast bowling tears the spine and back to pieces.
The Lillee we all remember is after he let his spine and back heal, and then his freakish comeback at a reduced pace, but so accurate and often unplayable.
Batsman combated Lillee by refusing to play at the ball unless it was going to hit the stumps.....because he was so quick, most balls were always going to bounce too high to ever hit the stumps, unless overpitched ( bowled too full ).
It's none other than the " Rawalpindi Express "
Because they're bowling, the cricket pitch or wicket can be fast or slow. For example, in Australia the pitch in Perth, Western Australia, is notoriously very fast, and gets lots of bounce. In the 1970s the West Indian cricket team had 4 of the best fast bowlers ever, and on a fast wicket they were almost unplayable. Whereas in India the pitches tend to be slower but the ball spins and turns massively, creating a different challenge for the batsman.
@@richardn8073 Indian fast bowler is a joke 🤣
@@qazialimohayuddin6526 Bumrah is the best fast bowler currently lil pakistani. Cope and seethe
@@qazialimohayuddin6526 Tell that to the Bumrah and the Aussies.
You have to remember that in Jeff Thompsons time the speed was measured at the batsman not at the release of the bowler as they do today his balls were still faster than any modern speed bowler
Great reaction. I do love the fast bowlers, but the best are the fast and accurate bowlers. From that list I would take out Tate and Thompson (though I love both dearly) Johnson had good and bad periods over his career, Starc, Roberts, Akhtar, and Lee were consistent in speed and accuracy over their entire careers.
The other group of interesting mid - fast bowlers are the very tall, like Joel Garner, Glenn McGrath, Jason Gillespie, Cameron Green, they are not express but their height gives the ability to deliver the ball at an angle that is not easy to play. These guys were usually extremely consistent in accuracy and got a majority of wickets from the batsmen becoming frustrated with not scoring causing them to play much riskier shots, normally ending in the fall of their wicket.
How can you leave Thomo out??? Blasphemy. The video isn't about who had long career's.....
@@TheDegan79 Yeah agreed, at his peak Thommo was brutal. Given the vast majority of his bowling was never timed, I personally wouldn't be surprised if he was the quickest bowler of all time.
The sho was the show.. ❤
the way you hold/release the ball can impact how it moves off pitch, but so can the pitch condition
The Mitch Stark ball was a Yorker... ment to get under the bat on the popping crease
You guys need to check out Waqar Yunis and Wasim Akram
Pakistan is called the factory of fast bowlers for a reason. ❤
Is that right, there were 5 Australians on that list.
Mostly Aussie I think Jeff Thomson was the fastest with the sing action like Shoaid Akhtar
@@deanwimbridge9318 Thommo with his sling shot action was super quick. Funny bloke too; when asked about whether the batsmen were able to pick where his deliveries were going at that speed, he answered "mate, I don't know where they're going, let alone the batsmen". 😄😄😄j
Now these really will be super bowls!
One thing to bear in mind guys is the " hardness" of the pitch. If it's been under baking sun for days on end it can be like playing on concrete & that ball can pick up speed from the bounce, plus you must remember the batsman at the other end is only some 18/19 yards away not 22(that's the distance between the "stumps") so he can have about 1/2 second or less to judge speed, height of bounce, or no bounce, angle, curve & anything else the bowler and or pitch can "throw" at him. You really don't want to get hit anywhere (especially in the groin area & yes you do have protection) at 95-100mph with a ball harder than a baseball, so your reaction has to be almost instantaneous. Bloody difficult believe me, I've been hit by bowlers slower than these guys you are showing & had the bruises to prove it. Good to see you guys learning more about the 2nd biggest game on the planet after football, soccer to you, nice one 😊
Lee and Akhtar were the most consistently fast with accuracy but as for the fastest ever Thompson is arguably the fastest . It was only at the end of his career that they had the tech to accurately measure the speed and even then I believe it was measured at the batsmans crease not out of his hand. He used to say he didn't know where it was going to go so what hope did the batsmen have .
As for comparing baseball to cricket a base ball is considerably lighter and softer than a cricket ball so obviously the base ball pitcher is going to generate more speed.
Thommo was a machine. Watched him at the Gabba for many years and it scared me watching from deep square leg.
@@glenmale1748 Me too especially him hitting the sight screens on the Full!
There is another aspect to the recording of speed in bowling. The equipment divides the length of the pitch, by the time the ball takes to travel it. As we all know, the fast way from point a to point b is a straight line. A cricket bowl is anything but a straight line. So, depending on factors like the height of the bowler, and how full it is pitched, the ball travels a lot further that the actual length of the pitch. In comparison, a baseball pitch is a lot closer to a straight line. A cricket ball’s actual speed will be considerably faster then what the speed gun shows.
Akhtar is one of the best Fast Bowlers out there...
A great recommendation for an aggressive spell of fast bowling would be Alan Donald vs Mike Atherton, late 90s ish?
2005 Brett Lee to Kevin Pietersen another at the Oval, or more recently, Mark Wood at Headingley to Khawaja and Marnus in the Ashes (I think Woods slowest ball of his spell was 93mph!)
Shoaib Akhtar is best from Pakistan...
3 of Five eyes countries plays cricket. America and Canada should take cricket seriously.
If Lillee won't get you, Thommo will.
The bowler throws the fastest bowl recorded in cricket history and the batsman just tucks it around his hips for a single lol 😂
THROWS????
I was at an odi game in Port of Spain. WI vs Aus and in the first ball, Ambrose got an edge that went for 4. He was pissed. Pissed!
It was the only runs in his 4 over opening spell.
The opening batsmen couldn't hit anything. They couldn't even manage another edge.
Thanks to your comment, I grew a biggie mooshie which added a couple more km speed and now I got my first wicket.
You guys should really watch Sachin's desert storm innings in Sharjah against Australia in 1998. It's arguably the best ever innings ever played in ODI cricket. I would say both the final as well as the qualifying match for the final are worth a watch. Watching it live has a special place in my heart.
Wasim Akram had got to be the most complete bowler I've ever seen and possibly the best bowler of all time
A baseball weighs between a quarter and a half ounce lass than a cricket ball. The lower end of MLB baseballs are what a Junior size cricket ball weighs.
These bowlers have such unique and incredible actions which are so fast blink and you will miss them
Check out Muhammad Asif from Pakistan, he is real king of swing. He was a former Pakistani fast bowler.
Brett Lee as called Binga... is very popular on the Indian Bollywood scene...
Brett Lee was bowling the first over of the innings, so that probably helped with his accelleration in speed, but first time seeing one of your cricket videos, I love that you guys actually know what you're talking about even if you don't know the history you have watched enough to understand the nuances of it. Not so much an out and out fast bowler, but Simon Jones in the ashes in 2005 would be a good one to look at, as in fact if that entire series
Also the cricket ball is usually pitched off the ground further flowing it down on the other hand those missiles come alot closer to the batsman who is literally in the direct line of fire.
@7:00 thats called a Yorker when it pitches right up in the blockhole
Ben stokes was innings in the ashes. Best batting performance I’ve ever seen it’s incredible moment it any sport
Guys you might like to check this for future commentary. When the bowler bowls it is called a ball. Commentators will say 'good bowling or good ball' not 'good bowl'. Good placement - NO. Good line and length - YES.
Thanks that helps a lot! Probably will still accidentally say it the other way a few times, but will try to use the correct terminology!
It's actually easier to get faster as the over goes on. Bowling has a lot to do with getting the run up right and rhythm through the crease. Rhythm is the key to fast bowling. Get that right and then you can put in maximum effort. I used to start singing "Rhythm is a dancer" in the field when one of my fellow bowlers was struggling to remind them to get their run up right.
React on Muhammad Asif medical bowling
An Australian bowler Jeff Thompson used to get over 100 mph ion cricket many years ago
Ok, you asked about Brett Lee vids to respond to.....
definitely definitely check out him bowling at journalist Piers Morgan. Piers had criticised the England batsman in the press and he agreed to face Lee to show them how it was done. Morgan could have been seriously injured, I doubt it would be allowed today. He ends up (unknown to him) with a broken rib but finishes off facing the over in the nets in front of a large gallery of cheering Aussies. It is fascinating viewing and puts into context what facing a bowler like Brett Lee would be for a "normal" person.
Give it a reaction, you won't regret it.
Brett Lee was fast but there was no fear of Brett Lee like there was of Shoaib Akhtar
Men there are different types of grips you hold ball with every grip reaction is different when ball hits the ground inswing, out swing, reverse swing, knuckle,hook knuckle,fade grip, hidden grip
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Am an west Indian we got too many greats. I could name 10 easily. But I will go with Walsh and Ambrose those were the two when I was growing up.
Viv Richards said the fastest he faced was Duncan Spencer and West Indies wicketkeeper Jeff Dujon said the quickest he saw was Patrick Patterson.
Thommo was quicker, but Patterson was crazy fast. Just not as good as the others in his nation for the era.
Guys appreciate your coverage of cricket. You may need someone who knows cricket that can explain to your non-cricketing audience. There are nuances that can explain what the bowlers intended.
Jeff Thompson was said to have, "unofficially" bowled 170 kmh many years ago but never confirmed! Even Dennis Lillee was scared of his bowling, said he was so fast but not accurate!!
Shoeb is the fastest of all.. He used to wear several socks for ankle support.
Never mind India vs the Aussies. England vs Aussies no better rivalry
The consensus is that the fastest was probably Jeff Thompson in his prime. He was a tad faster than any of the West Indians. The speed gun tech was rare at the time and they really only measured his speed later in his career after he had slowed down slightly. With speed if it's a bouncer it will tend to register as slower - it's just they way the angles work with the measurements - slightly shorter people with lower flat deliveries will often register as a bit faster than those deliveries from taller men or bouncers - like I said just the angles the tech measures the balls speed at.
"Fastest bowls" doesn't make sense in cricketing terms. Fastest deliveries would be more appropriate.
It's strange how bowling has become slower even though athleticism has increased greatly . Jeff Thompson 99mph shoaib akthar 100mph, sylvester Clark, Michael holding , sean tait all 95mph plus , these days mark wood and maybe nortje capable of regular 94 mph. Imagine facing the former list without head protection compared to full padding these days.
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How many Aussies in the top 10...Brilliant
Another fun fact is a cricket ball is about 1/4 lb heavier than a baseball😮 so it’s crazy how fast they get that bad boy!
That's not true at all. It is heavier but its no where close to 1/4 of a lb. its about 15 grams heavier which is only 0.03lbs heavier
Well I don’t know where you are getting your info but a baseball is 5.25lb and a cricket ball is 5.5 to 5.75 lbs so my maths says that’s at least 1/4lb heavier 🤔 we use metric system in my country though so yeah 😂
Shaun tait fasters over is insane..😳
shoaib is the best bowler of all time no doubt. you haven't seen him play in a full match. every delivery was danger.
Coming from a cricket background I am impressed at the shape of the baseball bat, and the pitching speeds are higher compared to cricket. So the accuracy, hand eye coordination, swing strength required for the game is phenomenal.
But cricket there are a lot more variables, the pitch, ball speed, swing, bounce, even weather factors like dew, wind speed.
So cricket, I feel you need to be a slightly more luckier than in a baseball game. Of course both games require immense amount of skill.
baseball you know that 99.8% of the time you will never be hit by the ball, cricket the bowler can bowl also aim at the body or the head! (2 bouncers per over)
when it cones to bounce it depends where you are playing. if you are playing in perth in Australia you will get hige bounce. In south africa & Australia they play on jard ptches with lots of bounce. in the sub continent (india, Pakistan, sri lanka & Bangladesh) you are playing on slower wickets so less bounce. In the west indies you get bounce and hard pitches, meanwhile is England you are getting bounce to maybe the top of the wickets but you get more swing and movement in England.
He was clocked at over a hundred miles an hour in a bowling competition
Sylvester Clarke was timed at 101.5 mph during a rebel South African test in the 80s using police radar equipment,highly accurate.
He probably bowled quicker than that at other times in his career without being timed.
His secret was bowling within himself and then to unleash his quicker one when least expected.
Sometimes he would bowl a super quick spell if he wanted to. Especially if he didnt like an opposition batsman.
Playing in the South African domestic league, Transvaal once needed ten runs off the last ball with Sylvester Clarke at the crease. The bowler bowled a no-ball that Clarke hit for four, so that was five runs down. Then he hit the last ball for six and was carried off on the fans' shoulders, who could not believe what they had just seen.
Police radar wasn't highly accurate, there were constant complaints about fluctuations in reported speeds for decades - including players bowling in another country & suddenly all being recorded faster or slower.
Would love to know what Thommo (Jeff Thomson from Australia) would be clocked at using current tech. Saw him at the Gabba many times hitting the sight screen on the full which I can't recall anyone else doing. Like your videos guys but FFS can you stop calling bowling THROWING!!!!
We are all thinking the same thing, Thommo was the fastest. Hands down.
Thommo was the reason the poms started wearing helmets.
Most of the way the ball performs is by the way the bowler rolls his fingers over the seam on the ball and they polish one side of the ball to make it swing in the air
Cricket is a thinking man's game. It'll never take off in America.
Yeah that's just an ignorant take and shows how little you understand about American sports.
@@RealFansSports Got ya mate. Just havin' a go at ya. Thanks for takin' the bait, hook, line and sinker.
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