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World's Fastest Bowler Competition 1979 World Series Cricket (Full Show)
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2019
- At Gloucester Park Perth January 1979 Hosted by Bruce Walker, the bowlers included Imran Khan, Sarfraz Nawaz, Dennis Lillee, Michael Holding, Jeff Thompson, Andy Roberts, Richard Hadlee, Colin Croft , Garth Le Roux, Mike Proctor, Wayne Daniel, Len Pascoe.
The study was made by Dr Frank Pyke of the University of Western Australia, Perth. The single fastest ball in an eight-ball over bowled is listed (measured in what is believed to be net conditions).
The most effortless fast bowler I’ve ever seen was Michael Holding
Thanks so much for posting in full.
The difference between the 1975/79 measurements and today is that the old measurements were from leaving the hand to hitting something using the camera, ie an average speed. Today, its done by radar so truly as it leaves the hand.
6:10 and 17:00
Yeah definitely.
Average speed. Add up to 20kmh to a full pitched ball.
The grid behind the bowlers was to allow Frank Pyke to calculate distance over the first few cine frames after release. So these speeds are out of the hand. Thomson's 160.45km/h measured in 1975 used the same measurement technique. ua-cam.com/video/7AZiLmo0gLU/v-deo.html
Bullshit. Modern day cricketers are just better athletes because they have more resources, advance technology and more research and knowledge available on fast bowling which allows them to bowl so quick which obviously cannot be achieved by someone at those times
@@graemealexander8804 not sure how much to add on, but obvs you're right that the ball loses speed as it travels through the air. I reckon for a full toss you can add 5% on to the average speed, making tommo 155kph. Other bowlers bowled bouncers for some reason, would beed to add a lot on for them
Final Standings After 8 balls:
By Top Speed:
1. Jeff Thomson: 147.9 Average: 142.0
2. Michael Holding: 141.3 Average: 135.3
3. Imran Khan: 139.7 Average: 138.3
4. Colin Croft: 139.2 Average: 134.7
5. Andy Roberts: 138.6 Average: 135.3
6. Dennis Lillee: 136.4 Average: 132.5
7. Garth Leroux: 135.9 Average: 132.4
8. Wayne Daniel: 133.5 Average: 128.2
9. Len Pascoe: 131.6 Average: 127.7
10. Richard Hadlee: 129.8 Average: 128.1
By Average Speed:
1. Jeff Thomson: 147.9 Average: 142.0
2. Imran Khan: 139.7 Average: 138.3
3. Michael Holding: 141.3 Average: 135.3
4. Andy Roberts: 138.6 Average: 135.3
5. Colin Croft: 139.2 Average: 134.7
6. Dennis Lillee: 136.4 Average: 132.5
7. Garth Leroux: 135.9 Average: 132.4
8. Wayne Daniel: 133.5 Average: 128.2
9. Richard Hadlee: 129.8 Average: 128.1
10. Len Pascoe: 131.6 Average: 127.7
By Accuracy:
1. Jeff Thomson: 5
2. Garth Leroux: 4
3. Sarfraz Nawaz : 4
4. Mike Proctor: 3
5. Wayne Daniel: 2
6. Dennis Lillee: 1
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They should have put Viv Richards, Greg Chappell, Sunil Gavaskar and Zabeer Abbas at the other end to test 'hittability.'
They are clearly saying at 17:00 that the ball speed was measured from the point of release from hand (Thomson and Co. often claimed that it was at the batsmen as the reason for the slower speed). Now that's a hard fact these fellas were not miles ahead of ballers of today. May be they are a tad bit slower.
Agreed. Its always amusing when people claim that athletes in the '70s and '80s were better than they are in the 2000's despite improved nutrition, conditioning, strength training, AND clear evidence like this speed test that they were very very good, but not yards quicker than their modern counterparts.
no one has said that apart from jeff..he has repeatedly said that...and it's always ME....ME...ME
It was 40 degrees that day. I remember it well. I saw Thomo bowl live . he was the quickest along with having the ball come from behind his back it made it super hard to read. There were better bowlers than him but not as dangerous.
@@redskullz1249 in cricket I agree, Thommo's max was 160 kmph. But in other fields like javelin throw, long jump, etc, the records set in 80s 90s are still unbroken..
You are right, Thomson keeps bragging about his speed, though no doubt that he was pacey, he was not way ahead of modern bowlers.
Thanks for the upload. A couple of thinks stuck out to me:
1. Looks like Thommo and Lillee no-balled every single delivery.
2. Imran hadn't even perfected his action yet and he was near the top, despite what Richie Benaud thought about him.
3. The leading wicket takers (Hadlee, Imran, Lillee, Holding) didn't get a single point in the accuracy competition.
4, The WI had a bowling lineup with three of the top-5 fastest bowlers in the world on any given day!
5. Holding's bowling is pure poetry. That loping run up, the completely uncomplicated yet technically perfect bowling action, the ability to smoothly shift through gears. The way he just kept accelerating it almost feels like if you gave him another 8 balls he could add another 20 kph to his speed with almost no effort. Just incredible.
1, you saying the umpires were bent?
2, After 8 years of test cricket if nothing else he was still learning?
3, 1000 dollars for accuracy was the reason for them doing this competition? Are you real. 4,000 for fastest and you think they'll care that much about accuracy? ''Let's just be accurate and forget about 4,000 dollars . I'll go for the 1,000.
4, So f++king what? Where did they finish in this comp?
5, Total bollocks!! His action no argument!!
But to suggest that if you gave him an 8 ball warm up he would have won this? Are you brain dead?
These bowlers apart from Thommo had been playing regularly. Thommo hadn't played top flight cricket for months... he was banned.
Think if you played fair and gave everyone 8 balls warm up they wouldn't be as 'warmed up'?
In reality the athletes above WOULD'VE WARMED UP!!
What a stupid assertion... oh apart from probably one bowler who was renowned for his lack of proper warm ups... THOMMO.
I think you'll find no matter where you look Holding has never claimed to be faster than Thommo , AND no-one in cricket that I know said he was faster either!
@@redskullz1249
Wow, you called me a name... awwwww, what a girl!! ( Oh dear you've made me do iot now... gosh!)
Another keyboard warrior who can write whatever they like but who will scream, or should I say skweem and skweem and skweem, when they get someone who disagrees.
You called me a moron? I know the difference between 'thing and thinks'! 8th word in?
Wasn't going to mention that first time around... but now I'm having fun!!
Ha ha! Excellent, well listen, MORON( gotta upset ya).. you say 'random observations'?
What do you understand that to mean? Also because you defend them as only random observations, they cannot be discussed/ refuted?
So unless someone agrees, they will get abuse thrown at them?
Ha ha ha! What a hard-case you must be?
Anyway, let's just make sure you know what you've done...
Random? Meaning -'' happening without method or conscious decision''. So your fingers went off on their own?
Nahh, you had several points to make and listed them... NOT RANDOM - soft bollocks.
That would be called SPECIFIC not random. That's just the way English works. Your 'random observations' were specific points... even subconsciously you knew that, otherwise way number them individually?
Ooooooh I can feel another name-calling message coming ha ha ha .
They were indeed, your assertions.
Well, big-mouth, you listed your observations, so it was only fair to respond like-wise.
How could that offend you? Because they weren't in agreement? Awww, you must get through a lot of tears and tissues.
No-one can comment on them, then? ... Hurt your wickle feelings?
Which part of me picking your observations apart hurt you or made me 'sound' ( seem, you imbecile as you cannot hear me) like a drooling moron. How can words, first of all, give the impression ( sound as you say) of drooling? How were they 'drooling' ? They were to the point and again it seems you cannot refute them, need help reading? Go get a friend to help you. Think you'll find that the comments just proved yours wrong... end of show me where even opinion would be a factor?
Or was it the way I used facts to question your random (?) observations?
Then because you got pulled on them, you went down the road of outrage and girly name-calling. Why? Because you couldn't defend your 'random observations'? Good come back ... ha ha ha.
''Have you been hit on the head.... ''? And here's me thinking Noel Coward was dead.
A brilliant riposte. Master of quick wit and repartee. Yet, you still have no defence of your 'random observations'.
Point 5 is worth
@@huss03 "The “leading wicket takers” don’t have to be the “most accurate”"
That is extremely inaccurate (pun intended). Accuracy involves putting the ball where YOU want to put it, whether it's on a good length 6 inches outside off stump to get a nick or a yorker on legstump to get an LBW or bowled. The best bowlers are invariably the most accurate because accuracy gets you wickets. The irony here is that the guys who got the most wickets, and were therefore arguably the most accurate (ESPECIALLY Hadlee who was renowned for his accuracy) did badly in the accuracy competition. Nothing more, nothing less.
@@huss03 You are equating unpredictability with randomness. Of course the batsman should not be able to predict what the bowler is going to do, but the bowler needs to be able to predict what he himself is going to do. Great bowlers don't just go out and spray the ball around randomly hoping for wickets. Watch a Hadlee spell and how he will drop ball after ball on off stump and shaping it away, then when the batsman gets comfortable he'll nip one back or pitch on short to surprise the batsman and force him to make a mistake. Or watch Imran deliver unplayable reverse swinging yorkers at the base of leg stump. That isn't just unpredictable luck. That's a bowler smart enough to have a plan and skilled enough to follow it.
Why is the music played when telling the speed so scary? It's like it's from Halloween or another horror movie.
5:10 Richie's description of Imran and Sarfaraz was rather comic. He almost stopped short of saying "what the Fuck are they doing here?".
He was there to make the specialist bowlers feel more, well, special...
Worst part of that is that Imran heroically won a test match in Australia in 19757-76 out bowling the great Lillee
@@electricmaster23 what do you mean.
There were other all rounders in the competition; Proctor/Hadlee
@@briansukhu4392 I was just making a joke.
This was when Australia was still about as racist as the US was in the late 19th century.
After 6 Balls:
Speed:
1. Thomson: 141.9
2. Imran: 138.7
3. Holding: 137.8
4. Croft: 136.6
5. Roberts: 135.5
Accuracy:
1. Thomson: 5
2. Le Roux: 4
3. Sarfraz: 4
4. Proctor: 2
5. Daniel: 1
Daniel was wayward.
Thompson would have been the fastest of that lot. He used to rope wold pigs. Imran Khan - he could jag 'em in at you. I faced Geoff Lawson in some indoor cricket nets one time, for about one delivery, without knowing who that was. I was for getting out of the way of that delivery. That was coming in at a trajectory and velocity with a considered purpose about it, compared to the crap others were lobbing down up to then.
It would be fun if they did this again now with modern timing methods.
They were not psyched-up as they would be for an actual game. Not having anything standing at the batting crease (like a wooden cut-out), nor wire netting to focus on, put them off a bit. Thommo was not in playing condition, being neither in a Packer nor traditional team, and was working-off the beers 'downed' with Packer immediately prior to the start of the competition. It was nearly 40C maximum, the sun almost directly overhead -- a 'stinker' in Perth.
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Thomson won the accuracy contest too. For the same person to be the fastest AND the most accurate, is something else. The second and third fastest (Holding and Imran) had zero accuracy points.
It is a mystery why Thomson's Test cricket bowling stats are relatively unimpressive.
RIP Bruce Walker (1940-2000).
Thommo getting to the crease was always like the tries of a car locking before the collision.
Great analogy!
Thanks bro!
Having seen Garth Le Roux bowl for a long time in SA ,I think he was low to mid 130s in the early 80s onwards. Thommo's pace looks accurate given that he wasn't as quick post his shoulder injury and wasn't in bowling fit condition in this match. Averaging 142 is still really good. Same with Proc who was in his final years as a paceman and at least 20km slower than his peak pace between 1969-1973 prior to his knee surgery and issues.
I hope one day they show world series matches too.
They do
@@stevesalkas533 I am taking about kerry packer ones during break away.
@@arslanMCL 79 onwards till now
I was 1y when it started wsc on tv after ch 9
@@stevesalkas533 Till now??? WSC operated between 1977 and 1979....
Thank you for this, absolutely fantastic !!! I've seen the 13.01 highlights many, many times. Met Thommo and Dennis twice outside Old Trafford Cricket ground ( after they had retired) Had Thommo's book, got two ( sent from Aus) I was polite ( was remembering that old saying shouldn't meet your hero) asked them both for an autograph. Dennis was obliging Thommo… a bit stand offish ( he didn't/doesn't like poms/fans?) anyway when I said to Dennis with a wink that he was in the book , would he sign it? He said, '' Really? Give it here!'' and started to laugh and said, '' WHERE?!!'' Then ,'' No worries.'' and asked Thommo, '' What you been saying?'' Thommo then changed and grinned, '' Give it here!! Then said , I wrote this?!!!'' When he saw the author he went, ''Ahh!''. Of course he knew about it. He was good after that. They both asked me who to sign it to. Fantastic, both did! I said to Dennis, I met you about 15-20 (?) years ago. He looked at me, I said it was an Aussie/England game ( I sneaked in by the Old Trafford score board) it was caught on tv ( ha ha , it looked like me anyway... there were quite a few that used to do it) Anyway Dennis was on the boundary and was having a laugh between balls with the crowd... he was always good with the crowd. The bugger saw I was drinking a coke and asked for a drink. I was about 14/5 … brilliant , he nicked my drink. There's not a chance he would have remembered, probably did that at most grounds lol. Great pair.. unlike Hadlee… an arse!! Yeah I met him, egotist all me me me. Remembers his 1st wicket... 17th. 34th and will bore you telling you about the way the wind was bowling that particular time. Wouldn't sign his book for you, you had to buy a pre-signed one. It was a my cricket club's supper night meet and greet, star guest Sir Richard Hadlee. We had a N.Z. pro playing for us and even though he was offered a free ticket he said he would NOT want to go and see it. He stayed in the bar other side of the club and asked someone to bring him a 'hot-pot' supper. I thought , ''How rude.'' Then I met Hadlee. He was that annoying and even though I'd been warned NOT to mention this competition... I did. The club chairman tried to lecture me later, I just laughed at him and said if he'd been genuine Hadlee would've laughed too, as far as I was concerned he deserved it. He hardly had anything witty or interesting to say. ! He hated it !! He even then moaned that they had a side bet between themselves ( not mentioned on tv) He was angry Thommo kept the winnings instead of spreading it about. He glared at me , I sat their grinning and let him whinge. Got our 'pro' his supper and apologised to him, he said , '' Told you so'', and we had a pint ... his brother played test cricket...
THANKS AGAIN MATE!!!
Thommo wasn't supposed to be in this comp. He had been banned by CA for signing with WSC. He was up in the bar drinking and eating prawns when they asked him to join. He came downstairs and this is what you see. PS. Lillee played with my club in WA and as a junior I got to see him bowl next to me in the nets many times.
Yea? Well from what I get from you here, I'd say it's understandable Richard was annoyed at you. All bowlers tall about the cricket they've played when they're asked. Also, a lot of NZ's cricketers back then were fucking twits that couldn't handle Hadlee being world class with top professional standards.
But Imran was also a specialist batsman, who averaged 53 with the bat in his final 52 tests. A distant second in batting skill among the bowlers here was Hadlee. Maybe Proctor.
Imran was also a captain during many of Pakistan's big successes, while none of the others did much captaincy at the international level. Legend.
Procter holds the world record for 6 successive first class centuries. He has more first class centuries than Imran, more 50s than Imran, a higher first class highest score than Imran, a higher list A highest score than Imran. Imrans record for successive first class centuries was 1 ? Procter scored a century and took a hatrick in the same game three times . Imran did it how many times ? Never. Procter also hit 6 sixes off successive balls in the English County Championship and 5 sixes in an over off the Australian tourists.
@@stephenmcloughlin7718 Imran averaged 50 as a batsman in his final 10 years of Test cricket. Proctor was unable to play tests of course, but Imran was a better batsman.
@@YD-uq5fi , Procter batted 3 or 4 in the county championship, Imran batted 7 or 8. Procter holds the world record for 6 successive first class centuries. Procter also scored a century and took a hatrick in the same game twice. They both played Kerry Packers World Series Cricket. Procter averaged 10 more than Imran with the bat, and 5 better than Imran with the ball.
Today may be more accurate, this is showing that Holding, Roberts, Lillie..... are slower than today's medium pacers.
Also one person missing Silvester clarck the furious bowler ended up with joining South African league cricket
I'd like to have seen all rounder Clive Rice play. According to the late Robin Jackman,Rice bowled as quickly as anyone's during WSC and was arguably South Africa's quickest bowler at the time when he wanted to crank it up. I'm guessing he probably could have been high 130s.
Add 10 km to the get accurate speed
Mitchell Johnson
Why?
No
The man who delivered ball at 20:20 his name is sarfraz nawaz he was the one who introduced the art of reverse swing
That's Imran Khan's old bowling style 😎
Can you please upload the 2005 WAFL Grand Final
I don't have it
38:10 that delivery wasn't near the Off stump
I know Jeff Thompson and others were fast, no doubt about it. But going with these speeds, fast bowlers these days bowl at 140+ for fun and there are so many of them. I wonder I could’ve bowl at 140+ but I had stress fracture in my lower back when I was 17. Anyways, it’s fair to say Shoaib akhtar and Tait has been fastest I ever saw
Jeff Thomson was miles quicker than Akhtar and Tate If Thomson was around today he would be smashing that speed gun at 160k on a regular basis you can't compare the speed guns in the 1970s its totally different than todays.
Today speed is measured when bowl leaves bowler’s hand .Earlier bowl speed was measured when bowl used to hit batsmen bat which shaves off 8-15% of bowl speed.
@@jahno7154 It clearly states that the speed was measured when it leaves the hand (6 mins in the video). So todays bowlers are faster, whether we like it or not
@@jehanzebahmad461 OH NO !! bowlers today are quicker than before man I'm so hurt you've ruined my day.
17:00
In 1970/71 Procter must have bowled about 145 km/h plus. Way past his best when this competition took place in 1979.
Many people mentioning that there is no batter.
Well it can go in either way.
Having a batter in front of you can motivate you to bowl fast but at the same time the bowler might have to consider his line and length so that the batsman dont hit him for a boundary.
Batsman, not batter. Cut the woke crap.
@@YD-uq5fi then write your own comment and cut the woke crap there instead of lecturing.
No wonder umpire Gary Duperouzel only stood in 1 ODO. Wouldnt know a no ball if it bit him on the arse.
44:33 yeah bowling fast screws your whole body
For those who think Thommo, Holding & Imran aren't as fast as modern bowlers, have a look at ua-cam.com/video/Vo6VkRalvDw/v-deo.html too
The man who delivered the ball at 19:58 is now prime minister of Pakistan
He is now in jail too.
@@TheTigers00001 This is our internal matter ok
@@waseemchaudhry2933 Just stating facts. Personally I think he shouldn't be in jail as this is all political.
Thommo won this whole he was not even playing
Imran khan just came from Pakistan then immediately participated in it.he said in his autobiography he had suffered a jet lag otherwise he would be way faster.his off the wicket speed is legendary.bt i saw even bowler like shahid Afridi,Bhuvneshwar kumar,shaun pollock bowls at 140 kph.so its impossible to believe these bowlers bowled as fast as Thomson,holding,Imran Khan.in my time i have seen shoib Akhter.he is easily the fastest bowler i have seen by a step.i don’t believe in speed gun as it can nt measures off the wicket speed
28:51 no way that delivery is 126.2kph it's 140kph+
I would love to see the exact setup from the 79 competition and time the current crop of bowlers see how they go. I don't know any other bowler hitting the pitch going over the keeper and hitting the fence on the full??
Wood actually did that twice in last years Ashes,when he was bowling at 95- 97mph. i watched the highlights yesterday again and thought I've never seen that before.
Was the speed measured differently to how it is now? So many bowlers bowl over 140 quite easily nowadays
Yeah I think there was some difference. Now it's measured with it comes out of the hand and earlier it was measured on the pitch, or something like that. Not too sure
17:00 They say this speed was measured out of hand ( not at batsmen's end as Thomson and others claim). This is similar to how it is done today. I think it is a mixture of video replay based coaching and science based fitness regiment that favours today's players
@@IndolentIndie I think bowlers are just given 8 bowls to bowl. Not sure how much time to bowl fast. I am not sure if they even got to warm up.
Even zaheer khan bowled 140+ even when he wasn't fit, these guys aren't jokers treated the fastest and showing only 130+ that's extremely weird
Although they say it was recorded from the hand, the displayed speeds were apparently an average from over the full distance. Also, Tommo here is post shoulder injury and had been drinking beer and eating prawns! He wasn't initially invited to participate.
How come they are so slow? Weren't these guys touching 160 kmph?
Only very few bowlers in the world could ever touch 160 kmph. Couple off them who could do that are way over their prime during this time.
@@suhail_69 and one of them was a pure Pakistani blood
@@rgfitness6425 so what?
probably because it was 38 degree heat and the end of season
It's a completely different measuring method to what is used today. I would ignore the actual numbers. You just cannot compare two methods without understanding the inaccuracies of both methods. What you can see here though is how the bowlers shown compare under the same conditions and the same measuring method. With that, Thommo is clearly faster than any other bowler here and this was filmed in 1979, 3 years after his shoulder injury that shaved pace off him. In his prime he was one of the fastest ever. I saw him live and he was faster than anyone today. The easiest way to tell is how quickly the ball would reach the boundary if it passed the wicket keeper and with Thommo, there was so much heat on the ball that it got there quicker and with more force than anyone else I've seen.
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Does that means that the modern fast bowlers who played after 2000 were faster then the veterans as we know Shoaib,lee,Starc,Sami,Shami,
Bumrah,Tait have touched 150+ throughout there career.
They used a different measuring system back then. I think they'd be on a par as speed goes. I saw Thomson live and he was as quick as any bowler in the game today.
This is the average speed of todays fast bowlers. Some of them were at the pace level of a medium pacer.
Although the Speed gun was set differently to now a days, but still you can compare between them and Thomson was fastest of them all by some distance.
That is not correct...they were two entirely different measurement systems. A speed gun, based on radar, was not used in cricket at this time. Offset high speed cameras performed point to point measurements over the distance between the creases.
Afridi once bowled 134kmph ...
Shahid?
Richie Imran, at that stage wa genuinely quick, Sarfraz was fast medium
During that period bowling speed was measured from the point of time the ball left the bowlers fingers up to the point it reached the stumps on the batting end by way of rate of frames per second nowadays the bowling speed is measured just as the ball leaves the bowlers fingers disregarding atmospheric, aerodynamic conditions and slowing down of the ball once it bounces off the pitch.Thats the reason run off the mill bowlers of today clock upwards of 142 kmph 😅No one can convince me that a modern day 145 kmph bowler of today was faster than Holding leave alone Thomson!And Imran's action had not completely evolved and he was at least a yard quicker 1981 onwards up to the beginning of 1983 when he fractured his left ankle/shin!He came back with a bang but according to my assessment was never as quick as he was during that period!
Holding 131 come on
What was Proctor and Sarfraz doing in this tournament ? Sarfraz was never quick and Proctor was way past his best.
Money. $5000 for fastest and $5000 for most accurate.
@@AussieTVMusic I didn't think of that 🤣🤣
Imran khan 💪💪
Michael Holding 127k? Are you kidding?
Sarfraz.....Awesome speed star's😲
Bullshit the machine is ofg its heax pointing was 123 not pascoe i would nt face pascoe but rick pointing anyday even a sleep
so these guys werent as fast as the bowlers now?
@heath gallagher i am not disagreeing with you, but where is the proof? in this video they are clearly slower.
@heath gallagher so how would you explain the lower speeds in this video? they clearly state the speed is measured out of the hand.
Measuring speed through film analysis versus radar gun nowadays.....big difference
@@thatguy9993
To the batsman's end NOT five metres from the hand. Just do a simple search of the title above... the place with the greater amount of information... Wikipedia... yep could be argued is it accurate but for every other piece of information on this programme there it is spot on... why make up one piece of information? If it is incorrect after all this time it would have been corrected!
'' In 1979, Thomson won a fastest bowling competition held by the Australian television station Channel 9, in a year in which he was banned from playing professional cricket. His maximum speed was measured at 147.9 km/h using the same method as employed during the 1975 study at the WACA. He also came top for accuracy in the competition''
It's just an illusion as they are bowling to the camera rather than away as they do today. So it appears slower here. They look fast to me.
Garth le Roux from South Africa was awarded player of series. Took most wickets in the competition against world class players. One of the all time greats.
Malcolm Marshall ? Sylvester Clarke ?
They were in India playing test cricket
@@AussieTVMusic oh. Thanks. They were also pretty quick.
They were all bowling too short your fastest ball is when u bowl pitch up the ball Thomson was smarter
No Botham? Where is Botham?
Botham was not fast enough to appear. If anything, in 1979 Kapil was faster than Botham.
@@YD-uq5fi Ya Kapil always seemed faster than him.
The umpire there only had 1 job to do... 'no-balls', that was it !! Yet he still missed those shown? He didn't have to do the toss of a coin, to judge for appeals, check for wides, LBW's, short runs, run-outs, bad weather /light or the number of balls bowled. What a joke. As it turns out not needed... just for show? Can't have been for any expertise.
Why bowl fast? Kapil took more wickets, won a world cup, and made more money than all of these without bowling fast. Kapil was bowling 140 ish when he started in 78, from 80 to 82, he was 142 +, from 82 to 91 he was 135.
He was the greatest.
Look at his records:
Not many people know that Kapil was the
1st man to take not only 200 but also 250 wickets in ODIs. From 1988 to 1994, he was the world's leading wicket taker in ODIs, ahead of Botham, Imran, Hadlee, Marshall etc.
Kapil is the only captain to take 9 wickets in an innings.
Only man to claim 400 wickets and score 5000 runs, also only man to claim 400 wickets and 4000 runs in Tests.
(Though Sobers is said to be the greatest all rounder, he managed only 235 wickets in 93 tests at a horrible strike rate of 87 and a poor avg of 34, Sobers also has no 10 wicket hauls and only 6 five wicket hauls.
If you think Kallis was the best, then he has only 292 wickets in a whopping 166 tests at a not so good strike rate of 69 and a poor avg of 32, also again he has no 10 wicket hauls and only 5 five wicket hauls)
World record 184 innings without getting run out.
He is the 1st man to hit 4 consecutive 6s in tests. (Now equalled by Afridi and De Villiers but not broken).
He is still in the list of top 10 wicket takers in tests.
Strike rate of 94 in tests, higher than Richards and Sehwag, 95 in ODI, higher than Richards.
Still youngest to 100 wickets and 1000 runs, 200 wickets and 2000 runs, 300 wickets and 3000 runs.
He is still the youngest man to take 300 Test wickets.
(Was also youngest to take 100, 200 and 400 but these 3 records stand broken now).
He is still the youngest captain to win a World Cup.
At the time of his retirement, he was the world's leading wicket taker in tests, and remained so for six years, until Walsh broke it in 2000.
Scored 500 runs and took 50 wickets in the same year twice (Pollock and Botham have also achieved this feat)
Has been holding the world record for the fastest 50 at Lord's in a Test Match off just 35 balls for 40 years now. (1982)
INDIA Records:
Fastest century by an Indian in Tests in 74 balls. (Later equalled by Azhar but not broken).
2nd Fastest 50 by an Indian in tests in 30 balls. (Pant now fastest in 29 balls, record broken by just one ball)
2nd fastest to reach 100 wickets in 25 tests (Bumrah is now fastest in 24 tests, record broken by just one test)
Second fastest 50 by an Indian in ODI in 22 balls (Fastest by Agarkar in 21 balls, record broken by just one ball)
First Indian player to score an ODI century
First Indian bowler to take 5 wickets in ODIs
He is the 1st Indian to complete his maiden test century with a six. (Harbhajan is the only other Indian to do so)
(Myth: Kapil never bowled a no ball: This is wrong, he did bowl no balls.
In this video, Kapil himself says that he had bowled no balls. ua-cam.com/video/Otolhum-xzA/v-deo.html)
Is Bruce Walker Is Still Alive ??
No he died in the 80s
@@AussieTVMusic I Found Out He Was Born 1940 And He Died 2000
Shoaib Akhtar, The Rawalpindi Express... first to pass 100 mph.
In December 1975, after the second test match against the West Indies at the WACA, he was timed with a release speed of 160.45 km/h using highly accurate, high-speed Photo-Sonics cameras. Granted 99.699 miles per hour.
But it was said by West Indies players he was actually faster when he played in the Windies against them... his enemies at the time backed up his speed legend. The Aussies have said they haven't seen a speed display like the one he produced in the test series against England at the WACA when it was so ferocious England actually got Colin Cowdry to fly out as he was fearless and we were losing plaers to injuries but at 42... too much to expect
Check out about speed check methods and why they were changed? Professors in sport at the time had no doubt Thommo passed that speed regularly.
At the time Shoib was measured it was from the hand to 5 metres out NOT at the batsman's end as it was at that time above. As has been agreed by the time Thommo's ball had reached the timing point it would've already lost between 8-10% in speed. Speed (Shoaib's) loss at 5 metre's arguably negligible! Had it been measured like Thommo's (a further 15 metres away and hitting the pitch) and those at the time it wouldn't have been 100 miles an hour. So using that fact you used 100mph, it is a fact of physics it wouldn't have been 100 mph at the batsman's end. Did he ever bowl that fast? Probably, but beat that speed regularly and even keep that speed regularly? No. Whereas anyone from Thomson's era said he did!!
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Akhtar easy the fastest and best the tait then lee
@@garryleerob Thomson is the fastest ever I believe, his speed was measured at the time of release. Please don't go on saying it was measured at the batsman's end 😛 Thommo is a freak and he himself lies a lot just for fun. Exaggeration is a thing, nobody has bowled 161 kmph ever. Since Thommo wasn't timed throughout his career, I'm giving the benefit of doubt. He may have bowled 162 or so at some time..
That comment needs to be changed to "first to surpass a MEASURED 100mph". There were bowlers like Frank Typhoon Tyson who many thought hit the mark in the 50's.
Crap daniels 123
I watched as far as Mike Proctor. He bowled 121 KPH. Schoolboy opening bowlers are quicker than that!!!! This is a waste of time!!!!
Back then speeds were measured on the pitch, maybe that's why it seems slow. Now they're measured as soon as they leave the hand, with the hawk eye technology
Fool. These were in fact the top fast bowlers of this time. Many cracked skulls and broke teeth. The measurement system is different today vs. now.
The over riding impression about this competition is how crappy and without rhythm they all were. How slow their speeds were compared with their average speeds when actually playing.
Ok, Thomson and Imran always say that this was timed at the batsmen. And I see some other comments saying that it is timed out of the hand. This is also stated I this video, you can clearly hear it. Are the two oldies just full of it? What gives? What is correct? This needs to be clarified.
Frank Pyke from UWA did the test. His Son Don Pyke is the CEO the West Coast Eagles. Unfortunately Frank died in 2011 so maybe email Don. It definitely appears to be out of the hand. Because the camera is there with the backboard.
@@AussieTVMusic That is also my thoughts. You can see the segmented blackboard to the side of the bowler in his delivery stride. I’ll see if I can find an email for Don.
It was out of the hand BUT the method used is not clarified. Without knowing exactly how speed was calculated and what errors are involved one cannot compare the numbers generated with the numbers generated from today's radar guns (which also have their own inaccuracies). All one can say here is that Thommo was quicker than anyone else by some margin in that test on that day and this was after his shoulder injury 3 years earlier which clearly shaved some pace off him.
Procter was as good a batsman as Imran.
Sarfraz shouldnt have been there anyway.