The ball doesn't have to hit the pitch, but it does have to be below waist height if it doesn't bounce. If it doesn't bounce its called a full toss, that is generally a bad delivery as they are much easier to hit, a yorker is where the ball hits the ground right at the batsman's feet, is a risky delivery at times if you get the length wrong you bowl a half-volley or low full toss, they generally get dispatched to the boundary, but if u get it right it is very hard to keep out.
1. You can't throw the ball. It's an optical illusion you're seeing. 2. Yorkers are meant to be an element of surprise or a run-limiting strategy. You bowl it too often and the batter will easily defend it or hit you for runs. 3. Ball doesn't have to bounce before it reaches the batter. But it must be below the waist when it reaches the batter.
A Yorker is cricket terminology for a ball that bounces right near the batsman’s toes. Also known as a toe crusher. Balls have be bowled with a straight elbow, but you can move your wrist. Brett Lee really throws his whole body into bowling.
There is a small amount of elbow movement allowable as it is biomechanically impossible to bowl with a completely straight elbow (about 15 degrees angle). Lee was close to the allowable maximum which is one of the reasons he looks like he is throwing the ball at times. His action was investigated by the cricket authorities because opponents couldn’t believe he could bowl so consistently fast and found to be legal. They use high speed cameras and computer software to measure the amount of elbow extension at the point of delivery. Lee is one of the top 5-6 fastest bowlers of all time where there is reliable data about speed. There are four other other Australian fast bowlers in the all time top 10 Jeff Thomson (1970’s - 1980’s), Shaun Tait, Mitchell Johnson and Mitchell Starc. The latter three all had careers that overlapped with Lee’s giving Australia a fearsome pace Attack. Unfortunately Tait’s career was cut short by injury, but the other three are legendary bowlers for Australia. Starc is still playing but is in the twilight of his career, but the others are all retired from the top level.
@@neumanmachine3781 it’s actually the other way around. He got quicker post 2011-12. Especially that 2013-14 Ashes and CWC 2015 where he consistently clocked 145-150 kmph.
He looked like he was pitching he wasn’t, he keeps his arm straight he doesn’t bend his arm. When he brings his arm over to deliver his arm stays straight 😊
Thanks man. I'm looking forward to our Summer of cricket. Lee was good. Jeff Thompson was the most formidable. I love cricket, the weather when its played, and the atmosphere. Even on TV its OK. A yorker hits the ground at the batsmen's feet. A full toss can bowl you out. It needn't hit the ground. Lee's not pitching. His arm stays straight. You can't pitch. A good yorker is hard to bowl. It doesn't happen often.
160kms is like 100 miles per hour and that’s bowling not throwing or pitching. Mitchell Starc is a left arm fast bowler currently bowling for Australia and he has an amazing Yorker
The hardest thing to adjust to as a batsman is to have Shane bowling from one end and then Brett bowling from the other. It screws with the brains ability to adapt to the different pace and strategy.
And that's why the Aussies of the 90s-2007 were practically unbeatable. Having the fastest bowler ever, the most accurate fast bowler ever and the best spinner ever all coming at you at the same time? Us Aussies were too spoilt rotten back then 😂
@@mwilkins1644 Those 3 backed up with "2nd tier" bowlers like Gillespie, Kaprowisc and MacGill that any other country would have gladly taken off Australias hands as spares. lol, simply the most complete bowling unit in history
A 'yorker' is pretty much aiming the ball at the batmen's toes. Very difficult when it's 150km/h ,which I think is close to 100 mph. 'Bing' Lee was a pure fast bowler in the top few quickest ever. to have played the game. Some bowlers are able to swing the ball in the air (away from or in to the batsmen) by polishing one side of the ball.
Pitching in baseball is essentially chucking where you can bend your elbow at the time of release. Hence, you get a lot of power and manuever. But in Cricket, you're not allowed to bend your elbow at the time of release. Hence, it's called bowling. That's why to get optimum speed they run from a mark to get the momentum and accelerate the ball towards those stumps. You don't necessarily have to bounce the ball in the groud, there is a term called Full toss which is basically releasing the ball without bounce, but the ball can't be tossed above waist line. Otherwise it's a foul and 1 run / point goes to the batter. The hardest part is in release cause if you bend your elbow at the time of release that a foul and a big penalty. You will be called back and you will be tested if you truly bend or not via technology. If your elbow bends more than 5 degree angle at the time of release, your career as a bowler is done! You won't be allowed to bowl anymore.
He’s not bending his bowling elbow, as soon as you bend it passed a certain degree it’s classed as a throw. Btw the bowl you weren’t sure on MPH was equivalent to 100MPH, he was averaging between 90-100MPH
Brett Lee is not pitching he is bowling he is a front on bowler. A Yorker is when the ball is bowled right at the batters foot and it is used sparingly so the batter does not get used to it. The bowler might use a couple of short pitched balls to get the better on the back foot and then fire in a Yorker. It's all about setting up the batter.
There’s footage of Matt Hayden facing major league pitchers with a baseball bat and smacking them out of the park. A lot of top cricket players cross train with baseball to hit cleanly with the centre of the bat. The 1980’s Australian team under Allan Border used to use baseball as a way to improve fielding (he played both sports) which gave his Australian team an edge in the field.
As for bowling and pitching ..... yes. With that pitching action both Brett Lea and Shoab Aktar were often bowling at around 160 klm / 100 mph. The authorities were finally forced to stop the throwing and make most bowlers bowl the ball as directed by the rules. Of course, many spin bowlers were allowed to blatantly throw the ball, the throwing action giving more spin speed and power, not to mention a very quick FAST ball. They even changed the rules to allow Muralidian to keep bowling. lol
160 kph = 99 mph You don’t have to bounce the ball when bowling, but if you bowl a full toss, the batsman is likely to get underneath it and score a six
If you are new to the game it can get confusing. A lot of rules like any game, but you are doing really well mate. And I wouldn`t like to be facing Brett Lee at a 160kph (just short of 100mph). When you watch the top ten killer bouncers you`ll see why. Great reaction.
Not sure what you are seeing when you say he is pitching like in baseball. His arm comes over straight - a bent elbow is illegal - you can't throw (or pitch). The ball doesn't have to bounce before reaching the batsman or the stumps. In fact a ball that reaches the batsman without bouncing (called a full toss) is actually easier to hit. What is really hard to hit is a ball that hits the ground at the batsman's feet. But there is small margin for error so it is really hard to bowl. If it's a bit short it is a half volley, a bit long then it's a full toss, both easier to hit for the batsman (usually).
To answer your questions: 1. A 'yorker' is a ball that lands right near the batsman's feet/base of the wickets. It's a very difficult ball to defend. 2. Some fast bowlers have more of 'side-arm' release but as long as the elbow isn't bent, it's not deemed a throw or 'pitch' as you call it. 3. The ball does not have to bounce, but if it doesn't bounce it needs to be below the batsman's waist or else it's called a 'no-ball' which is an illegal delivery. The batting team get 1 run added to their score for a no-ball and the bowler has to bowl the ball again. 4. 160km/h is exactly 100m/h. Brett Lee would regularly bowl over 90m/h with ease. 5. The reason more people don't 'bowl that way' is because it's very hard to do and physically taxing.
Ya gotta circumduct the arm to bowl, nothing like a throw. Many can throw fast, bowling fast much harder, especially to do it accurately. Brett was always lightening fast and a firecracker when he got a wicket. "Yorker" is when it's bowled to land the zone where you hit it, generally it's harder to hit than a shorter or longer length bowled ball.
The run in adds speed as the legs and back add leverage to the arm holding the ball. Have a look at some of mitchel johnsons stuff. Big tall scary fast bowler, deadly bouncers
1: Lee's form is almost perfect, he is so fast your eyes perceive his arm to bend. 2: A Yorker is the hardest ball to bowl in cricket period. 3: doesn't need to bounce to take a wicket (that's called a full toss) 4: 160kmh is 100mph 5: look up shoaib akhtar his form was VERY controversial
The reason why most other fast pace bowlers bowl Yorkers as much as Brett Lee did is due to the shear fact of they are so hard to consistently get in that sweet spot of the foot area of the batsman. In the early years of Lee's bowling he was very fast but very reckless/in accurate, he went through about 18month stint where he slowed about 10kmh in speed and honed his accuracy further. Was fun to watch to be honest!
Bowlers keep one wide of the ball sighing to cause drag through the air with the rougher side of the ball to create a swing. Watch again carefully the ball curving through the air. Yorkers are generally a surprise ball after the bowler has bowled some fuller or shorter deliveries and usually catch the batsmen out after being psyched out. It’s a mind game with a brutally hard cork ball with a leather casing that is two pieces stitched together. Dangerous AF, and strokes fear into batsmen at that pace
The Yorker is the fast bowlers weapon. Aimed at the toes of the batter. Usually a fast ball around 150 klm. Brett Lee was a master at this especially late in an innings. He also had a reverse swing and an away swinging delivery which were quick. He had pace and guile whereas Shane Warne had different deliveries at different speeds and you never knew where the ball would pitch as it would often Bamboozle players into thinking of ways to play these deliveries when they were simply impossible to play! Both great players of their time in the modern era of the game!!
He was a savage, 100mph bouncing at the heads of batters, as well a great Yorker as the video you just done. Yeah bro bowlers have to keep the arm straight, not like pitching. A batter has idk, .5 of a second to react to a ball hitting his head, his toes, or his hairy beanbag, all while trying to score runs. Fast bowlers swing the ball in the air have a slow ball which comes out the back of the hand, it has the same arm speed as the fast ball. And a bunch more tricks .
You saw the Shane Warne video. Can you imagine being a batsman facing Warne from one end and then Brett Lee bowling at 100mph from the other? Incredible bowling attack
160.9 km/h = 100 mph. The top fast bowlers have similar speed to the top baseball pitchers. What they lose in having a straight arm, they make up with the run up.
@@CVTECK1 typically the slower bowlers have the short often curved run up. The arm twisting movement of a finger or wrist spinner translates from the forward movement of the player even worse than fast bowling, so while it does help add some forward momentum it is more about putting that bowling hand in a nice high position to extract as much bounce from the delivery as possible.
Bowlers are allowed to slightly bend their arm. And a YORKER gets its name from YORK, in the UK (down the bottom). It's aimed at the feet of the batsman. And the ball DOES NOT have to hit the ground.
"How are you supposed to hit that?" Batsmen try and move forward (advance down the wicket, is the lingo). But if the bowler sees you do it, they will adjust their bowl and move with you. Also, they will, out of nowhere, bowl a slower delivery, and the poor batsman will swing too early and miss. Cricket has so much going on, it's magic.
The ball doesn't have to hit the ground, so you are allowed to "pitch" the ball in cricket on the condition it's aimed at the wicket. Cricket is a much more interesting game than baseball because there are less restrictions than baseball. For example the ball can either hit the ground or not hit the ground. Also you can have your fielding team up close around the batter so as to intimidate the batter. Cricket has all the excitement of baseball + a lot more danger and drama. Once you get hooked there is no turning back.
Remember, fast bowlers physically wears down the body so not every ball is a Yorker. They save them for special moments. You can do body line, you bowl at the body or head, but you are not allowed to do that every ball. There have been and are some amazing bowlers and bats men.
160km/hr is approx. 100mph. A classic Yorker is a ball that lands or bounces on or near the batsman's big toe. Of course the batsman will move his feet to try and hit the ball but this type of ball is the one most likely to get under the bat. If the ball bounces further up the pitch then it is high enough to be struck near the middle of the bat or its sweet spot. If the ball is a full toss or reaches the bat on the full a good batsman can easily read it in the air and hit runs off of it if it is near to hitting the wickets. Full tosses are allowed but generally not recommended, and have height restrictions which is basically waist height at the bowler or not greater than wicket height at the wickets. Otherwise a no-ball is called. Some fast bowlers pitch the ball short and can make it bounce or rise rapidly basically heading for the rib cage or the head. This is a part of the game even though such balls can cause severe injuries or even deaths, with or without the protective helmets and pads, if the bowler can put enough pace on it. Brett Lee was a fast pace bowlers but certainly wasn't anywhere near the top of the speed demons in the game. There is much confusion over what the difference is between a bowl and a throw or chuck. The action must be overarm and the elbow should be mostly straight. It can be bent and some bowlers have quite an apparent bend in their action. In these cases the angle of the bend cannot significantly straighten throughout the bowling action. The overarm action should be mostly vertical close to the head but some leeway in the action is allowed in the arc slightly to the side and away from the head. Basically the faster one bowls and the more success one seems to be having the more likely that one's action will be closely scrutinised by officials.
You should react to something from the West Indies glory days of fast bowling. They had 4 bowlers in the team that bowled really fast and often got balls up into the batsman's rib cage. Players like Michael Holding, Joel Garner and Courtney Walsh.
Woooohoooo Bingaaaaaaa lol - I can't wait for the test's to start this summer. Boxing day test match is my fav day of the year....Yeah, Warnies loss has been just shockingly awful, so young, and left behind 3 beautiful kids. The whole cricket world has /will miss him for a lot of years to come - RIP Warnie
A Yorker is also called a sandshoe crusher. The bowler is aiming to hit the ball on the ground adjacent to the batters foot. And then have the ball swing either to the right or to the left. Have the ball go between the bat and the legs.
One day Brett and his brother Shane were practicing when one of the state baseball teams was practicing on the adjoining field. The coach invited Brett to have a pitch and they measured the pitch at over 95 mph.
G'day, The batsmen hit most balls, even if it is just a blocking move. They have done this so many times in practice and in games that it appears to be a supernatural ability. It goes back to being able to read every action of the bowler from before they begin their approach. Knowing this ability to read the game play the bowlers try to trick the batsmen.
Yorkers are basically throwing the ball at the batsman. The 1932 "bodyline" series was notorious for trying to take out the batsman rather than the wicket.
Yorkers are so named because the first bowler acknowledged to use this type of delivery as a deliberate tactic was from Yorkshire in England - sometime in the late 1800's. The name has stuck ever since.
Lee is bowling, it is a different action to pitching and generally results in lower speeds than pitching. That means it is usually much easier to hit those yorkers if you know one is coming. Not a lot of sidewards movement through the air and not enough time after the ball hits the deck for significant changes in direction. Most deliveries from fast bowlers, and fast medium bowlers, is about exploiting indecision from the batsman who isn't quite sure where the ball is going to be relative to the bat when it reaches them. This is sometimes called bowling in the corridor of uncertainty. This corridor is around the stump furthest away from the batsman. You want the ball to be possibly hitting that stump, but maybe not. If the batsman knows for certain that the ball would hit the stump s/he would know exactly where to put the bat. But if the ball is definitely not going to hit the stump the batsman would leave it alone. They could put the bat in a position to hit the ball but there is a risk that the ball comes off the bat in a manner that allows someone to catch the ball. So leaving it alone is a safer option. The bowler wants to put the batsman in two minds about whether to interpose the bat. The yorker takes away that indecision and aims to catch the batsman by surprise. A surprised batsman might be bowled out, as in this video, or fail to get out of the way and be out LBW. An unsurprised batsman knows the exact trajectory of the ball and it is arriving into their hitting zone right around where the sweet spot on the bat is. Lee combined the surprise with rare speed and accuracy to take these wickets. Wasim Akram was another supreme bowler of the yorker but he did it with much less speed and more late movement of the ball.
A Yorker has been explained, it is one of many bowls in a fast bowler arsenal . In cricket you must bowl with a straight arm, your elbow cannot be bent, unlike baseball
It's not all about the pace. Batsmen have to be focused 100% as the great bowlers use the seem of the ball and polish one side of the ball to make it swing. They will also aim for cracks in the pitch to make the ball move off the line to surprise the batter and knock the stumps over. This is why 5 day cricket is called test cricket. It's a mental and physical test for batters in the heat, staying out there as long as possible while hitting runs. When someone comes in at 90 to 99mph, it's another element to bat against
It is allowed to release the ball to the base I meant it is allowed to make the ball go to the base without touching the ground it is called full toss length
That’s what a yorker is - a ball that doesn’t hit the ground until it’s under the bat. It could be a bit long and therefore be a full toss. It’s the child of the express bowlers usually. Also, 160kmh is the same as 100mph.
Yorkers are balls bowled at the feet of the batsman ... they are virtually impossible to hit. They aren't easy to bowl either as the bowler needs to get the line and length perfect. He has a kind of sling action but his arm doesn't bend ... just flexes from the momentum. The ball doesn't have to hit the ground but usually does. The bounce can cause the ball to move due to the seam so it's preferred. When it doesn't bounce, it's called a "full toss" and usually happens due to the ball unintentionally slipping from the bowler's hand early. Brett Lee was the fastest in the world at his peak. You get pace bowlers (fast, medium and slow) as well as spinners (off and leggies) so there are different skills that are used. Warnie didn't have the pace, but he had the spin. The distance between the bowler and batsman is a couple of metres longer than it is from the batter to the pitcher in baseball.
How Do you hit that? The beauty of the yorker is that it's nearly impossible to hit, the batsmans best option is to defend by blocking the ball, if he can get his bat to the ground before the ball goes under it
If you are enjoying the cricket videos I would suggest you go look at the cricket from the 70s and 80s . The 70s and 80s Australian team was brutal. I would like to add the bowler has to keep a straight arm and the ball must be bowled behind the crease as well as the ball does not need to hit the ground and this is called a " full toss "
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It doesn't have to bounce but if it doesn't bounce it has to be pitched lower than batsman's waist height , it calls fulltoss ball in cricket but its easy for batsman to hit them usually so bowlers avoid them mostly
@CVTECK1: Brett Lee's action was legit i.e. he bowled not threw (chucked). It can look a bit suspect at normal camera speed as he had a very fastv arm action but can be properly resolved in slow-motion replays. He also had a very snappy wrist action when he released the ball. As for speed, 160kmh is a fraction under 100mph. His fastest ball that I know of was 163 km/h (101.3 mph) which almost went unnoticed at the time as it was a wicket-taking ball. He (and his brother Shane( was friends with an old friend of mine at the Mosman Cricket Club in Sydney - really nice guy (I also met Shoaib Akhtar when he played for Mosman one season; imagine being a club cricketer and having to face the two of them together!)
He's not throwing it, hes bowling it. Each bowler, or "pitcher" gets 6 bowls each. So using the two bowlers you already know about as an example; They would have Brett Lee bowl 6 balls, and then the team would switch it up and have Shane Warne bowl 6 balls. Its to confuse the batters timing. Each bowler will have a few different types of bowls they will do to also confuse the batters timingm similar to how pitchers throw different pitches. There's other types of bowlers aswel but I won't confuse you too much with that at the moment.
In cricket u can't bend ur elbow, first time Americans think it's same as pitching in baseball which is not. Bowling and pitching are different and ur correct Brett Lee is fast absolutely fast
Why don't more people bowl that way? It's hard. It is throwing your entire body, with a straight arm in to putting a ball on a small spot 22 yards away... If it is a little short and a half volley - the batsman will smash it. When it's too full and a full toss - the batsman will smash it. Brett Lee got away with it out of sheer pace and his use of short pitch bowling - where he'd bounce the ball to aim towards the batsman's throat. Far more scary than a ball coming that fast at your feet so it was something of a surprise ball. Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga was probably the best exponent of the yorker if you want to see some more.
there are two main types of bowlers, spinners and fast bowlers(seamers) , there are more categories under these two, shane is a spinner, so he don't run that much and don't bowl that fast. spinners normally getting turn after bounce. and brett lee is a fast bowler so they run much longer distance. they bowl much quicker.
To bowl you have to roll your arm over with a locked elbow otherwise it a throw A Yorker is bowled at the toes or at the crease like if you don't have speed it's easy to hit away The reason most don't bowl like this because easy to edge and normally goes for 4 runs What fast bowler tries to do is get batter on back legs it make it hard to hit and control the ball This opens up other options to get them out lbw is where you hit their legs in line with stumps Or as you see hit the wickets that's why they normally bowl a couple bouncer up in to the body head areas Then follow with this type of ball you can hit stump on full but ball can't be pitched above hip high Again It's easy for a batter to hit for a boundary 4 or 6 so it's not used often normally it's a ball gone wrong and slips our of bowlers hand before he wanted as good batters are waiting for these types of balls just the fast guy are quicker then most batters can handle He's bowling ball at 100 mph and they can move ball of pitch at angles Bowling and batting comes down to how the pitch is prepared A pitch with moisture in it suits a bowler as when it hits ground it dents causing ball to grip and move at angle Where's a drier pitch the skids on surface and won't change direction so batter watches ball out of bowlers hand to see where he pitching and knows it won't move so easily hits the ball Many thing for you to learn it's why they reguard test cricket the pinikle as pitch changes over the 5 days so it suits bowlers and then batters as it drys out Cheers mate hope this helps 🇦🇺
Full ball would be easy to hit because of the bats we use... But if u bounce the ball then it's a different story cause it seems swings spin plus the bounce is different on all pitches
A Yorker is a ball bowled to land as close to the batsman's feet as possible , otherwise known as a toe crusher. Just so you know 160 kph is 100mph in America.
Not only is that ball travelling at increadible speed, its as hard as a rock. Facing a fast bowler can be extremely intimidating and dangerous. You don't know how they hit the ball? Well they do all the time. You're only looking at the bowled out shots. The ball is hitting the ground. Fast bowlers need to place that ball correctly to bowl the batsman, as much skill required as spin just different.
If you think Brett Lee was good, i would highly recommend watching Glenn McGrath = he wasn't very fast avg 130km per hour (80mph) vs Brett Lee avg 150-160km per hour (90-100mph) ... but the difference McGrath was alot taller thus had much more variation plus he was much more consistent constantly battler his opponent in the small spot with small variation until he got a wicket. Glenn McGrath imo is one of the most successful modern bowler's in today's era, retired now. He probably be in my cricket team for all time G.O.A.T
I think the camera angles and speed of Brett Lee’s arm deceive you a bit. His elbow doesn’t bend at all as he bowls overarm, so it’s nothing like a baseball pitch. Unfortunately there’s no side-on view in the video to show this clearly. A “Yorker” is the name for a ball that bounces around the batsman’s feet. Bowled well it can be particularly hard to hit/defend. Brett Lee was a master of it.
What you are seeing is hyper extension of his elbow, he's not throwing the ball. The issue with fast bowling like that is if you're off just a little bit all the batsman has to do is get a tickle on the bat and it runs to the boundary for 4, very quickly. He can't bowl like that every ball but he sometimes got into a bit of a purple patch and really turned it on. Brett Lee has a lot more to his arsenal than the yorker he is a very dangerous short pitch bowler, the idea of a short pitched ball is to get the batsman playing a bad shot and gets out or needs to duck out the way to avoid the ball hitting them in the head. SOme have had some very nasty injuries taking Brett on. Lost teeth, split open head, broken bones, he was brutal. However, this is expected of a fast bowler but he is the first person to the batsman if he's been hurt. It's not the intention to hurt them but to intimidate them off their game and to take wickets. Psychology is a big part of the game, especially the longer form. Many people don't have the patience for it, but the mind games are fascinating. The laws for a ball not hitt the ground is it needs to be below the waist (on the full), any higher the ball is illegal and is penalised with a run and the ball has to be bowled again. Brett has had the misfortune of bowling a few beam balls (at the head) and saw the wrath of a few fans and players. He doesn't bowl these on purpose but they don't look good. He has a very loose grip on the ball when bowling and sometimes when he tries to bowl a yorker it leaves the hand a little too early. If you are after some carnage and injury then see some of the worst bouncers Brett features in quite a few. It's not for the faint hearted though but I will say no one dies in these videos, no one ever has in test cricket.
He's not just speed. He could put aerodynamic swing on the ball, literally making it move laterally in the air. Also, in freedom units, 160kph is pretty much right on 100mph, which is a seriously quick delivery. Some of his more brutal bowling has knocked people unconscious and broken bones. Binger was a monster of a bowler.
Yorker is the perfect length, what that means the ball bounces at the batsman feet making it impossible to hit, if you bowl too far you will be baseball swatted out the park, very difficult length to master and as long as your arm is straight when bowling it is a legal delivery and no the ball does not need to hit the ground but does have to be lower than waist level when it passes the batsman to be a legal delivery, if the ball bounces when you bowl it can't bounce higher than the batsman's shoulder height or those will be called no-balls and the bouncer will be wide.
What your not seeing here is all the other balls that Brett had to bowl before he bowled those wicket taking yorkers. You have to set up a batter to get him out. You can't keep throwing toe crushers all day and expect the batter not to take advantage. One big difference between baseball and cricket, is that it is very hard to get a good batter out. Cricketers are all taught to defend their wicket. In a multi day match, you only get two chances to bat. For a one day match or T20 (20 overs a side), you only get one chance to bat. So you don't want to give away your wicket easily, and good batters won't. A good bowler has to work hard to get them out, and Brett Lee was one of the best fast bowlers going. A yorker has to be spot on. Even slightly off your line or length, and it's easy for the batter to defend against. Or worse, dispatch it to the boundary for 4 or 6 runs.
Make no mistake, this is only one type of bowling this guy does. If you bowl the same way over and over, the batsman find it easy. Instead, the bowler has a range of weapons in their arsenal, they change it up.
Firstly, Brett is not one of the greatest bowlers of all time, he's very good, but when Australia was at its best, he was the 4th best in the team (Glenn McGrath would open with Jason Gillespie, Shane Warne would take care of the variety, and Brett Lee would be the 3rd quick option, the fastest of the 3). There's been a handful of quicker bowlers (Jeff Thomson before speed guns generally regarded as the fastest of all time), Shoaib Akhtar, Shaun Tait and a LOT of better fast bowlers. Indians just love him because he has had a Bollywood movie and hit record to his credit. Secondly, when you see highlights, any wickets taken when the players are wearing coloured clothing are the shorter versions of the game, where there is pressure on batsmen to score quickly. So, some of these batsmen were not caring if they got out as long as they were scoring quickly. For mine, that devalues the "achievement" somewhat. The rules around throwing vs bowling have been the source of much controversy for...ever. It used to be umpires opinion (ie it was called "live" or not at all). Nowadays, it isn't called "live" but a bowler is reported for a suspect action. They then have to submit themselves to sport science testing, where super slow motion capture is used in a controlled environment, the angles of the elbow are measured, and if they fall outside often-changing guidelines, the bowler is suspended until they "fix" the problem. Actions that would have been called for throwing by a live umpire in the past are not classed as ok, when the naked eye says they're throwing. Lastly, as I said with the Warne video, highlights out of context don't tell the full story. It's the set up that allows the wicket taking ball. Aim a few short ones at the gloves/head, then slip in the yorker and the batsmen's feet don't move so well..
He’s not pitching, it may look like that in slow motion. He’s one of the fastest bowlers ever. 160km = 100 miles. The ball also swings left or right at times similar to baseball but the only way it swings is when the ball is in a certain condition.
You can ball without pitching on ground as long as you ball below batsman waist. But those balls ( base ball pitches) are easy balls in cricket. Once ball hits the ground it can turn any way ,take any bounce and mostly balls are done aiming batsman and witcket but not necessarily. This is cricket where you can get severe injuries even with whole lots of protection.
A Yorker is difficult to score from as the best scoring is done hitting the ball on the full or on a rising ball. If the ball is bouncing right at your feet it is difficult to get the right angle to hit with any power. If you do get it away it doesn’t go far enough to get a run.
The answer to why they don't bowl yorkers all the time is similar to why pitchers don't throw fastballs in on the hands every pitch. You watch a Nolan Ryan compilation and the hitters look helpless, what you don't see is when pitchers miss or get too predictable with it and get put into the cheap seats. Likewise a fast bowler can easily miss the target with an attempted yorker and bowl a full toss (doesn't bounce at all, easier to hit) or a half-volley (bounces just short of yorker length so the batter can hit it right on the bounce, also easier to hit). A bowler as quick as Brett was or who swings it like Brett did does have some more margin for error though. Even some in this video aren't strictly yorkers though they're equally effective. The one to Marvan Attapatu for example was just a regular full length ball, but swinging in a little and 100mph. Another bowler you should check out the yorkers of is Waqar Younis of Pakistan, late 80s-mid 2000s
Fast bowling (and batting against fast bowling) is a game of strategy and fine margins. Too predictable, the batsman will hit you for runs. So the bowler has to keep adjusting his length to keep the batsman guessing a bit. If you knew as a batsman every ball was coming fast at your toes, you’d adjust your stance and hit them all for 4 or 6. It’s that the one came fast at your toes and out of nowhere that gets you. Btw, the bell doesn’t have to bounce - but when it doesn’t bounce it’s much easier to judge and hit. It’s the bounce that adds unpredictability - a full toss is generally regarded as a bad ball because it makes the Batman’s job easier.
In cricket it is not allowed to throw the ball while your trying to bowl throwing a ball it is illegal delivery he is not throwing the ball he is swinging his arms so he can release the ball and make the ball go faster
100 mph, but it bounces first. A yorker is hitting the ground right at the batsman's feet. It can get to them on the full but has to be below the waist.
100 mph is 161 km/h So, 160 K is just under 100 miles an hour. Brett was the only bowler who could bowl that fast and remain accurate. There are others who can match that speed but not with much accuracy.
The ball doesn't have to hit the pitch, but it does have to be below waist height if it doesn't bounce. If it doesn't bounce its called a full toss, that is generally a bad delivery as they are much easier to hit, a yorker is where the ball hits the ground right at the batsman's feet, is a risky delivery at times if you get the length wrong you bowl a half-volley or low full toss, they generally get dispatched to the boundary, but if u get it right it is very hard to keep out.
1. You can't throw the ball. It's an optical illusion you're seeing.
2. Yorkers are meant to be an element of surprise or a run-limiting strategy. You bowl it too often and the batter will easily defend it or hit you for runs.
3. Ball doesn't have to bounce before it reaches the batter. But it must be below the waist when it reaches the batter.
You can throw the ball within a 15° limit. Although you are expected not to throw.
A Yorker is cricket terminology for a ball that bounces right near the batsman’s toes. Also known as a toe crusher.
Balls have be bowled with a straight elbow, but you can move your wrist. Brett Lee really throws his whole body into bowling.
He really does, so fast!
There is a small amount of elbow movement allowable as it is biomechanically impossible to bowl with a completely straight elbow (about 15 degrees angle). Lee was close to the allowable maximum which is one of the reasons he looks like he is throwing the ball at times. His action was investigated by the cricket authorities because opponents couldn’t believe he could bowl so consistently fast and found to be legal. They use high speed cameras and computer software to measure the amount of elbow extension at the point of delivery.
Lee is one of the top 5-6 fastest bowlers of all time where there is reliable data about speed. There are four other other Australian fast bowlers in the all time top 10 Jeff Thomson (1970’s - 1980’s), Shaun Tait, Mitchell Johnson and Mitchell Starc. The latter three all had careers that overlapped with Lee’s giving Australia a fearsome pace
Attack. Unfortunately Tait’s career was cut short by injury, but the other three are legendary bowlers for Australia. Starc is still playing but is in the twilight of his career, but the others are all retired from the top level.
@@neumanmachine3781Johnson wasn’t that fast
@@AAAAAA-gj2di After a few injuries he lost some pace but in the first half of his career he was regularly over 150km/hr.
@@neumanmachine3781 it’s actually the other way around. He got quicker post 2011-12. Especially that 2013-14 Ashes and CWC 2015 where he consistently clocked 145-150 kmph.
Not only an incredible bowler, but a true gentleman who always played the game fairly and in the right spirit.
He looked like he was pitching he wasn’t, he keeps his arm straight he doesn’t bend his arm. When he brings his arm over to deliver his arm stays straight 😊
Thanks man. I'm looking forward to our Summer of cricket. Lee was good. Jeff Thompson was the most formidable. I love cricket, the weather when its played, and the atmosphere. Even on TV its OK. A yorker hits the ground at the batsmen's feet. A full toss can bowl you out. It needn't hit the ground. Lee's not pitching. His arm stays straight. You can't pitch. A good yorker is hard to bowl. It doesn't happen often.
160kms is like 100 miles per hour and that’s bowling not throwing or pitching. Mitchell Starc is a left arm fast bowler currently bowling for Australia and he has an amazing Yorker
The hardest thing to adjust to as a batsman is to have Shane bowling from one end and then Brett bowling from the other. It screws with the brains ability to adapt to the different pace and strategy.
And that's why the Aussies of the 90s-2007 were practically unbeatable. Having the fastest bowler ever, the most accurate fast bowler ever and the best spinner ever all coming at you at the same time? Us Aussies were too spoilt rotten back then 😂
@@mwilkins1644 Those 3 backed up with "2nd tier" bowlers like Gillespie, Kaprowisc and MacGill that any other country would have gladly taken off Australias hands as spares. lol, simply the most complete bowling unit in history
@@jvomkriegthen average batters like langer, Hayden, Ponting, Waugh, Gilchrist, Symonds… easily the greatest team ever.
@@mwilkins1644 which is why the 2005 ashes series was so good from an england point of view to beat such an amazing team
A 'yorker' is pretty much aiming the ball at the batmen's toes. Very difficult when it's 150km/h ,which I think is close to 100 mph. 'Bing' Lee was a pure fast bowler in the top few quickest ever. to have played the game. Some bowlers are able to swing the ball in the air (away from or in to the batsmen) by polishing one side of the ball.
Pitching in baseball is essentially chucking where you can bend your elbow at the time of release. Hence, you get a lot of power and manuever. But in Cricket, you're not allowed to bend your elbow at the time of release. Hence, it's called bowling. That's why to get optimum speed they run from a mark to get the momentum and accelerate the ball towards those stumps. You don't necessarily have to bounce the ball in the groud, there is a term called Full toss which is basically releasing the ball without bounce, but the ball can't be tossed above waist line. Otherwise it's a foul and 1 run / point goes to the batter. The hardest part is in release cause if you bend your elbow at the time of release that a foul and a big penalty. You will be called back and you will be tested if you truly bend or not via technology. If your elbow bends more than 5 degree angle at the time of release, your career as a bowler is done! You won't be allowed to bowl anymore.
He’s not bending his bowling elbow, as soon as you bend it passed a certain degree it’s classed as a throw. Btw the bowl you weren’t sure on MPH was equivalent to 100MPH, he was averaging between 90-100MPH
Brett Lee is not pitching he is bowling he is a front on bowler. A Yorker is when the ball is bowled right at the batters foot and it is used sparingly so the batter does not get used to it. The bowler might use a couple of short pitched balls to get the better on the back foot and then fire in a Yorker. It's all about setting up the batter.
A full toss is the easiest ball to hit in cricket
Which is why the best batsmen in cricket would hit baseball pitchers out of the park and baseball batters would look damn silly playing cricket!
If they had a cricket bat they would… not with a baseball bat
@@rickdaniels1000 Yes.
@@rickdaniels1000 it wouldn't make a difference m8.
There’s footage of Matt Hayden facing major league pitchers with a baseball bat and smacking them out of the park. A lot of top cricket players cross train with baseball to hit cleanly with the centre of the bat. The 1980’s Australian team under Allan Border used to use baseball as a way to improve fielding (he played both sports) which gave his Australian team an edge in the field.
As for bowling and pitching ..... yes.
With that pitching action both Brett Lea and Shoab Aktar were often bowling at around 160 klm / 100 mph.
The authorities were finally forced to stop the throwing and make most bowlers bowl the ball as directed by the rules.
Of course, many spin bowlers were allowed to blatantly throw the ball, the throwing action giving more spin speed and power, not to mention a very quick FAST ball.
They even changed the rules to allow Muralidian to keep bowling. lol
160 kph = 99 mph
You don’t have to bounce the ball when bowling, but if you bowl a full toss, the batsman is likely to get underneath it and score a six
There is still a distinct difference between a baseball pitch and a fast bowl.
Check out Top 10 Killer Bouncers
If you are new to the game it can get confusing. A lot of rules like any game, but you are doing really well mate. And I wouldn`t like to be facing Brett Lee at a 160kph (just short of 100mph). When you watch the top ten killer bouncers you`ll see why. Great reaction.
They aren't rules in cricket they are laws
Not sure what you are seeing when you say he is pitching like in baseball. His arm comes over straight - a bent elbow is illegal - you can't throw (or pitch). The ball doesn't have to bounce before reaching the batsman or the stumps. In fact a ball that reaches the batsman without bouncing (called a full toss) is actually easier to hit. What is really hard to hit is a ball that hits the ground at the batsman's feet. But there is small margin for error so it is really hard to bowl. If it's a bit short it is a half volley, a bit long then it's a full toss, both easier to hit for the batsman (usually).
To answer your questions:
1. A 'yorker' is a ball that lands right near the batsman's feet/base of the wickets. It's a very difficult ball to defend.
2. Some fast bowlers have more of 'side-arm' release but as long as the elbow isn't bent, it's not deemed a throw or 'pitch' as you call it.
3. The ball does not have to bounce, but if it doesn't bounce it needs to be below the batsman's waist or else it's called a 'no-ball' which is an illegal delivery. The batting team get 1 run added to their score for a no-ball and the bowler has to bowl the ball again.
4. 160km/h is exactly 100m/h. Brett Lee would regularly bowl over 90m/h with ease.
5. The reason more people don't 'bowl that way' is because it's very hard to do and physically taxing.
Ya gotta circumduct the arm to bowl, nothing like a throw. Many can throw fast, bowling fast much harder, especially to do it accurately. Brett was always lightening fast and a firecracker when he got a wicket. "Yorker" is when it's bowled to land the zone where you hit it, generally it's harder to hit than a shorter or longer length bowled ball.
Circumduct? Ooh, I learnt a new word today! Thanks!
The run in adds speed as the legs and back add leverage to the arm holding the ball. Have a look at some of mitchel johnsons stuff. Big tall scary fast bowler, deadly bouncers
Bowlers in cricket must always bowl with their arms straight throughout the delivery, but they may move their wrist as much as they like.
1: Lee's form is almost perfect, he is so fast your eyes perceive his arm to bend.
2: A Yorker is the hardest ball to bowl in cricket period.
3: doesn't need to bounce to take a wicket (that's called a full toss)
4: 160kmh is 100mph
5: look up shoaib akhtar his form was VERY controversial
Thanks Justin
Hi CV, cool video
Love all these informative comments too. Great stuff
Hey, thanks
The reason why most other fast pace bowlers bowl Yorkers as much as Brett Lee did is due to the shear fact of they are so hard to consistently get in that sweet spot of the foot area of the batsman. In the early years of Lee's bowling he was very fast but very reckless/in accurate, he went through about 18month stint where he slowed about 10kmh in speed and honed his accuracy further. Was fun to watch to be honest!
Bowlers keep one wide of the ball sighing to cause drag through the air with the rougher side of the ball to create a swing. Watch again carefully the ball curving through the air. Yorkers are generally a surprise ball after the bowler has bowled some fuller or shorter deliveries and usually catch the batsmen out after being psyched out. It’s a mind game with a brutally hard cork ball with a leather casing that is two pieces stitched together. Dangerous AF, and strokes fear into batsmen at that pace
The Yorker is the fast bowlers weapon. Aimed at the toes of the batter. Usually a fast ball around 150 klm. Brett Lee was a master at this especially late in an innings. He also had a reverse swing and an away swinging delivery which were quick. He had pace and guile whereas Shane Warne had different deliveries at different speeds and you never knew where the ball would pitch as it would often Bamboozle players into thinking of ways to play these deliveries when they were simply impossible to play! Both great players of their time in the modern era of the game!!
He was a savage, 100mph bouncing at the heads of batters, as well a great Yorker as the video you just done. Yeah bro bowlers have to keep the arm straight, not like pitching.
A batter has idk, .5 of a second to react to a ball hitting his head, his toes, or his hairy beanbag, all while trying to score runs. Fast bowlers swing the ball in the air have a slow ball which comes out the back of the hand, it has the same arm speed as the fast ball.
And a bunch more tricks .
You saw the Shane Warne video. Can you imagine being a batsman facing Warne from one end and then Brett Lee bowling at 100mph from the other? Incredible bowling attack
160.9 km/h = 100 mph. The top fast bowlers have similar speed to the top baseball pitchers. What they lose in having a straight arm, they make up with the run up.
Ahh that makes sense Mister hat i was wondering some Bowlers run and some don't.
@@CVTECK1 typically the slower bowlers have the short often curved run up. The arm twisting movement of a finger or wrist spinner translates from the forward movement of the player even worse than fast bowling, so while it does help add some forward momentum it is more about putting that bowling hand in a nice high position to extract as much bounce from the delivery as possible.
Bowlers are allowed to slightly bend their arm. And a YORKER gets its name from YORK, in the UK (down the bottom). It's aimed at the feet of the batsman. And the ball DOES NOT have to hit the ground.
"How are you supposed to hit that?" Batsmen try and move forward (advance down the wicket, is the lingo). But if the bowler sees you do it, they will adjust their bowl and move with you. Also, they will, out of nowhere, bowl a slower delivery, and the poor batsman will swing too early and miss. Cricket has so much going on, it's magic.
The ball doesn't have to hit the ground, so you are allowed to "pitch" the ball in cricket on the condition it's aimed at the wicket.
Cricket is a much more interesting game than baseball because there are less restrictions than baseball. For example the ball can either hit the ground or not hit the ground. Also you can have your fielding team up close around the batter so as to intimidate the batter. Cricket has all the excitement of baseball + a lot more danger and drama. Once you get hooked there is no turning back.
Remember, fast bowlers physically wears down the body so not every ball is a Yorker. They save them for special moments. You can do body line, you bowl at the body or head, but you are not allowed to do that every ball. There have been and are some amazing bowlers and bats men.
There is a thought that the Yorker delivery originated in Yorkshire in England.
160km/hr is approx. 100mph.
A classic Yorker is a ball that lands or bounces on or near the batsman's big toe. Of course the batsman will move his feet to try and hit the ball but this type of ball is the one most likely to get under the bat. If the ball bounces further up the pitch then it is high enough to be struck near the middle of the bat or its sweet spot. If the ball is a full toss or reaches the bat on the full a good batsman can easily read it in the air and hit runs off of it if it is near to hitting the wickets. Full tosses are allowed but generally not recommended, and have height restrictions which is basically waist height at the bowler or not greater than wicket height at the wickets. Otherwise a no-ball is called. Some fast bowlers pitch the ball short and can make it bounce or rise rapidly basically heading for the rib cage or the head. This is a part of the game even though such balls can cause severe injuries or even deaths, with or without the protective helmets and pads, if the bowler can put enough pace on it. Brett Lee was a fast pace bowlers but certainly wasn't anywhere near the top of the speed demons in the game.
There is much confusion over what the difference is between a bowl and a throw or chuck. The action must be overarm and the elbow should be mostly straight. It can be bent and some bowlers have quite an apparent bend in their action. In these cases the angle of the bend cannot significantly straighten throughout the bowling action. The overarm action should be mostly vertical close to the head but some leeway in the action is allowed in the arc slightly to the side and away from the head. Basically the faster one bowls and the more success one seems to be having the more likely that one's action will be closely scrutinised by officials.
You should react to something from the West Indies glory days of fast bowling. They had 4 bowlers in the team that bowled really fast and often got balls up into the batsman's rib cage. Players like Michael Holding, Joel Garner and Courtney Walsh.
Woooohoooo Bingaaaaaaa lol - I can't wait for the test's to start this summer. Boxing day test match is my fav day of the year....Yeah, Warnies loss has been just shockingly awful, so young, and left behind 3 beautiful kids. The whole cricket world has /will miss him for a lot of years to come - RIP Warnie
That right there is my childhood hero ❤❤
A Yorker is also called a sandshoe crusher. The bowler is aiming to hit the ball on the ground adjacent to the batters foot.
And then have the ball swing either to the right or to the left. Have the ball go between the bat and the legs.
One day Brett and his brother Shane were practicing when one of the state baseball teams was practicing on the adjoining field. The coach invited Brett to have a pitch and they measured the pitch at over 95 mph.
Damm
G'day, The batsmen hit most balls, even if it is just a blocking move. They have done this so many times in practice and in games that it appears to be a supernatural ability. It goes back to being able to read every action of the bowler from before they begin their approach. Knowing this ability to read the game play the bowlers try to trick the batsmen.
Glen Mc Grath predicting which fieldsman he will give the catch to , all class
Yorkers are basically throwing the ball at the batsman. The 1932 "bodyline" series was notorious for trying to take out the batsman rather than the wicket.
Yorkers are so named because the first bowler acknowledged to use this type of delivery as a deliberate tactic was from Yorkshire in England - sometime in the late 1800's. The name has stuck ever since.
Lee is bowling, it is a different action to pitching and generally results in lower speeds than pitching. That means it is usually much easier to hit those yorkers if you know one is coming. Not a lot of sidewards movement through the air and not enough time after the ball hits the deck for significant changes in direction.
Most deliveries from fast bowlers, and fast medium bowlers, is about exploiting indecision from the batsman who isn't quite sure where the ball is going to be relative to the bat when it reaches them. This is sometimes called bowling in the corridor of uncertainty. This corridor is around the stump furthest away from the batsman. You want the ball to be possibly hitting that stump, but maybe not. If the batsman knows for certain that the ball would hit the stump s/he would know exactly where to put the bat. But if the ball is definitely not going to hit the stump the batsman would leave it alone. They could put the bat in a position to hit the ball but there is a risk that the ball comes off the bat in a manner that allows someone to catch the ball. So leaving it alone is a safer option. The bowler wants to put the batsman in two minds about whether to interpose the bat.
The yorker takes away that indecision and aims to catch the batsman by surprise. A surprised batsman might be bowled out, as in this video, or fail to get out of the way and be out LBW. An unsurprised batsman knows the exact trajectory of the ball and it is arriving into their hitting zone right around where the sweet spot on the bat is.
Lee combined the surprise with rare speed and accuracy to take these wickets.
Wasim Akram was another supreme bowler of the yorker but he did it with much less speed and more late movement of the ball.
A Yorker has been explained, it is one of many bowls in a fast bowler arsenal . In cricket you must bowl with a straight arm, your elbow cannot be bent, unlike baseball
It's not all about the pace. Batsmen have to be focused 100% as the great bowlers use the seem of the ball and polish one side of the ball to make it swing. They will also aim for cracks in the pitch to make the ball move off the line to surprise the batter and knock the stumps over. This is why 5 day cricket is called test cricket. It's a mental and physical test for batters in the heat, staying out there as long as possible while hitting runs. When someone comes in at 90 to 99mph, it's another element to bat against
It is allowed to release the ball to the base I meant it is allowed to make the ball go to the base without touching the ground it is called full toss length
That’s what a yorker is - a ball that doesn’t hit the ground until it’s under the bat. It could be a bit long and therefore be a full toss. It’s the child of the express bowlers usually. Also, 160kmh is the same as 100mph.
Yorkers are balls bowled at the feet of the batsman ... they are virtually impossible to hit. They aren't easy to bowl either as the bowler needs to get the line and length perfect. He has a kind of sling action but his arm doesn't bend ... just flexes from the momentum. The ball doesn't have to hit the ground but usually does. The bounce can cause the ball to move due to the seam so it's preferred. When it doesn't bounce, it's called a "full toss" and usually happens due to the ball unintentionally slipping from the bowler's hand early. Brett Lee was the fastest in the world at his peak. You get pace bowlers (fast, medium and slow) as well as spinners (off and leggies) so there are different skills that are used. Warnie didn't have the pace, but he had the spin. The distance between the bowler and batsman is a couple of metres longer than it is from the batter to the pitcher in baseball.
In American measurements a cricket pitch is 22 yards long so that might help him work it out 😆
How Do you hit that? The beauty of the yorker is that it's nearly impossible to hit, the batsmans best option is to defend by blocking the ball, if he can get his bat to the ground before the ball goes under it
A Yorker is bowled at the toe's you will sometimes hear a ball described as a jaffa . which in aus means an almost unplayable delivery.
Batsmen find full toss easier to hit: bouncing off the ground adds uncertainty, which is why bowlers do it.
If you are enjoying the cricket videos I would suggest you go look at the cricket from the 70s and 80s . The 70s and 80s Australian team was brutal. I would like to add the bowler has to keep a straight arm and the ball must be bowled behind the crease as well as the ball does not need to hit the ground and this is called a " full toss "
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It doesn't have to bounce but if it doesn't bounce it has to be pitched lower than batsman's waist height , it calls fulltoss ball in cricket but its easy for batsman to hit them usually so bowlers avoid them mostly
@CVTECK1: Brett Lee's action was legit i.e. he bowled not threw (chucked). It can look a bit suspect at normal camera speed as he had a very fastv arm action but can be properly resolved in slow-motion replays. He also had a very snappy wrist action when he released the ball. As for speed, 160kmh is a fraction under 100mph. His fastest ball that I know of was 163 km/h (101.3 mph) which almost went unnoticed at the time as it was a wicket-taking ball. He (and his brother Shane( was friends with an old friend of mine at the Mosman Cricket Club in Sydney - really nice guy (I also met Shoaib Akhtar when he played for Mosman one season; imagine being a club cricketer and having to face the two of them together!)
You can also bowl full toss balls to the batsman just as in baseball. Full toss balls in cricket is a child's play to the batsman.
i think a rough conversion is 150 KPH = 93 MPH , full toss = no bounce , i would be interested in the top speed of a pitchers speed
He's not throwing it, hes bowling it. Each bowler, or "pitcher" gets 6 bowls each. So using the two bowlers you already know about as an example; They would have Brett Lee bowl 6 balls, and then the team would switch it up and have Shane Warne bowl 6 balls. Its to confuse the batters timing. Each bowler will have a few different types of bowls they will do to also confuse the batters timingm similar to how pitchers throw different pitches. There's other types of bowlers aswel but I won't confuse you too much with that at the moment.
In cricket u can't bend ur elbow, first time Americans think it's same as pitching in baseball which is not. Bowling and pitching are different and ur correct Brett Lee is fast absolutely fast
Why don't more people bowl that way?
It's hard. It is throwing your entire body, with a straight arm in to putting a ball on a small spot 22 yards away... If it is a little short and a half volley - the batsman will smash it. When it's too full and a full toss - the batsman will smash it.
Brett Lee got away with it out of sheer pace and his use of short pitch bowling - where he'd bounce the ball to aim towards the batsman's throat. Far more scary than a ball coming that fast at your feet so it was something of a surprise ball.
Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga was probably the best exponent of the yorker if you want to see some more.
there are two main types of bowlers, spinners and fast bowlers(seamers) , there are more categories under these two, shane is a spinner, so he don't run that much and don't bowl that fast. spinners normally getting turn after bounce. and brett lee is a fast bowler so they run much longer distance. they bowl much quicker.
To bowl you have to roll your arm over with a locked elbow otherwise it a throw
A Yorker is bowled at the toes or at the crease like if you don't have speed it's easy to hit away
The reason most don't bowl like this because easy to edge and normally goes for 4 runs
What fast bowler tries to do is get batter on back legs it make it hard to hit and control the ball
This opens up other options to get them out lbw is where you hit their legs in line with stumps
Or as you see hit the wickets that's why they normally bowl a couple bouncer up in to the body head areas
Then follow with this type of ball you can hit stump on full but ball can't be pitched above hip high
Again It's easy for a batter to hit for a boundary 4 or 6 so it's not used often normally it's a ball gone wrong and slips our of bowlers hand before he wanted as good batters are waiting for these types of balls just the fast guy are quicker then most batters can handle
He's bowling ball at 100 mph and they can move ball of pitch at angles
Bowling and batting comes down to how the pitch is prepared
A pitch with moisture in it suits a bowler as when it hits ground it dents causing ball to grip and move at angle
Where's a drier pitch the skids on surface and won't change direction so batter watches ball out of bowlers hand to see where he pitching and knows it won't move so easily hits the ball
Many thing for you to learn it's why they reguard test cricket the pinikle as pitch changes over the 5 days so it suits bowlers and then batters as it drys out
Cheers mate hope this helps 🇦🇺
You should check out Brett Lee bouncers and broken arms
Full ball would be easy to hit because of the bats we use... But if u bounce the ball then it's a different story cause it seems swings spin plus the bounce is different on all pitches
A Yorker is a ball bowled to land as close to the batsman's feet as possible , otherwise known as a toe crusher. Just so you know 160 kph is 100mph in America.
More of cricket please...keep em comin
I got injured but we'll be back with some more videos but I been watching some t20 tournament
Not only is that ball travelling at increadible speed, its as hard as a rock. Facing a fast bowler can be extremely intimidating and dangerous. You don't know how they hit the ball? Well they do all the time. You're only looking at the bowled out shots. The ball is hitting the ground. Fast bowlers need to place that ball correctly to bowl the batsman, as much skill required as spin just different.
If you think Brett Lee was good, i would highly recommend watching Glenn McGrath = he wasn't very fast avg 130km per hour (80mph) vs Brett Lee avg 150-160km per hour (90-100mph) ... but the difference McGrath was alot taller thus had much more variation plus he was much more consistent constantly battler his opponent in the small spot with small variation until he got a wicket.
Glenn McGrath imo is one of the most successful modern bowler's in today's era, retired now. He probably be in my cricket team for all time G.O.A.T
If a ball bowled doesn't bounce it is called a "Full Toss".
The "Full Toss" is legal as long as it is below the waist.
I think the camera angles and speed of Brett Lee’s arm deceive you a bit. His elbow doesn’t bend at all as he bowls overarm, so it’s nothing like a baseball pitch. Unfortunately there’s no side-on view in the video to show this clearly.
A “Yorker” is the name for a ball that bounces around the batsman’s feet. Bowled well it can be particularly hard to hit/defend. Brett Lee was a master of it.
Maybe it was the angle Shauno
Fun fact Cricket does not have rules. Instead they are referred to laws of the game.
man if you like Brett Lee's bowling you check out Glenn McGrath imo the BEST pace bowler australia has had in as long as i can remember
What you are seeing is hyper extension of his elbow, he's not throwing the ball. The issue with fast bowling like that is if you're off just a little bit all the batsman has to do is get a tickle on the bat and it runs to the boundary for 4, very quickly. He can't bowl like that every ball but he sometimes got into a bit of a purple patch and really turned it on. Brett Lee has a lot more to his arsenal than the yorker he is a very dangerous short pitch bowler, the idea of a short pitched ball is to get the batsman playing a bad shot and gets out or needs to duck out the way to avoid the ball hitting them in the head. SOme have had some very nasty injuries taking Brett on. Lost teeth, split open head, broken bones, he was brutal. However, this is expected of a fast bowler but he is the first person to the batsman if he's been hurt. It's not the intention to hurt them but to intimidate them off their game and to take wickets. Psychology is a big part of the game, especially the longer form. Many people don't have the patience for it, but the mind games are fascinating. The laws for a ball not hitt the ground is it needs to be below the waist (on the full), any higher the ball is illegal and is penalised with a run and the ball has to be bowled again. Brett has had the misfortune of bowling a few beam balls (at the head) and saw the wrath of a few fans and players. He doesn't bowl these on purpose but they don't look good. He has a very loose grip on the ball when bowling and sometimes when he tries to bowl a yorker it leaves the hand a little too early.
If you are after some carnage and injury then see some of the worst bouncers Brett features in quite a few. It's not for the faint hearted though but I will say no one dies in these videos, no one ever has in test cricket.
He's not just speed. He could put aerodynamic swing on the ball, literally making it move laterally in the air.
Also, in freedom units, 160kph is pretty much right on 100mph, which is a seriously quick delivery. Some of his more brutal bowling has knocked people unconscious and broken bones. Binger was a monster of a bowler.
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Yorker is the perfect length, what that means the ball bounces at the batsman feet making it impossible to hit, if you bowl too far you will be baseball swatted out the park, very difficult length to master and as long as your arm is straight when bowling it is a legal delivery and no the ball does not need to hit the ground but does have to be lower than waist level when it passes the batsman to be a legal delivery, if the ball bounces when you bowl it can't bounce higher than the batsman's shoulder height or those will be called no-balls and the bouncer will be wide.
Check out Jeff Thomson toe crushers from the 70s. Lethal.
What your not seeing here is all the other balls that Brett had to bowl before he bowled those wicket taking yorkers. You have to set up a batter to get him out. You can't keep throwing toe crushers all day and expect the batter not to take advantage. One big difference between baseball and cricket, is that it is very hard to get a good batter out. Cricketers are all taught to defend their wicket. In a multi day match, you only get two chances to bat. For a one day match or T20 (20 overs a side), you only get one chance to bat. So you don't want to give away your wicket easily, and good batters won't. A good bowler has to work hard to get them out, and Brett Lee was one of the best fast bowlers going. A yorker has to be spot on. Even slightly off your line or length, and it's easy for the batter to defend against. Or worse, dispatch it to the boundary for 4 or 6 runs.
Make no mistake, this is only one type of bowling this guy does. If you bowl the same way over and over, the batsman find it easy. Instead, the bowler has a range of weapons in their arsenal, they change it up.
He’s calling out Binga for chucking! 😅😂
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Mate, you've got to check out Jeff Thompson. Thommo. From the 1970's. He'll knock your socks off.
Firstly, Brett is not one of the greatest bowlers of all time, he's very good, but when Australia was at its best, he was the 4th best in the team (Glenn McGrath would open with Jason Gillespie, Shane Warne would take care of the variety, and Brett Lee would be the 3rd quick option, the fastest of the 3). There's been a handful of quicker bowlers (Jeff Thomson before speed guns generally regarded as the fastest of all time), Shoaib Akhtar, Shaun Tait and a LOT of better fast bowlers. Indians just love him because he has had a Bollywood movie and hit record to his credit.
Secondly, when you see highlights, any wickets taken when the players are wearing coloured clothing are the shorter versions of the game, where there is pressure on batsmen to score quickly. So, some of these batsmen were not caring if they got out as long as they were scoring quickly. For mine, that devalues the "achievement" somewhat.
The rules around throwing vs bowling have been the source of much controversy for...ever. It used to be umpires opinion (ie it was called "live" or not at all). Nowadays, it isn't called "live" but a bowler is reported for a suspect action. They then have to submit themselves to sport science testing, where super slow motion capture is used in a controlled environment, the angles of the elbow are measured, and if they fall outside often-changing guidelines, the bowler is suspended until they "fix" the problem. Actions that would have been called for throwing by a live umpire in the past are not classed as ok, when the naked eye says they're throwing.
Lastly, as I said with the Warne video, highlights out of context don't tell the full story. It's the set up that allows the wicket taking ball. Aim a few short ones at the gloves/head, then slip in the yorker and the batsmen's feet don't move so well..
He’s not pitching, it may look like that in slow motion. He’s one of the fastest bowlers ever. 160km = 100 miles. The ball also swings left or right at times similar to baseball but the only way it swings is when the ball is in a certain condition.
You can ball without pitching on ground as long as you ball below batsman waist.
But those balls ( base ball pitches) are easy balls in cricket.
Once ball hits the ground it can turn any way ,take any bounce and mostly balls are done aiming batsman and witcket but not necessarily.
This is cricket where you can get severe injuries even with whole lots of protection.
A Yorker is difficult to score from as the best scoring is done hitting the ball on the full or on a rising ball. If the ball is bouncing right at your feet it is difficult to get the right angle to hit with any power. If you do get it away it doesn’t go far enough to get a run.
That's why it's called a yorker because it bounces at the feet before it hits the wickets and 160kph is 100mph
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In the Australian vernacular for cricket, throwing the ball i.e. bend and then straighten the elbow, you be called a not nice name of a chucker.
You can direct hit the wickets it's called a full toss
The answer to why they don't bowl yorkers all the time is similar to why pitchers don't throw fastballs in on the hands every pitch. You watch a Nolan Ryan compilation and the hitters look helpless, what you don't see is when pitchers miss or get too predictable with it and get put into the cheap seats. Likewise a fast bowler can easily miss the target with an attempted yorker and bowl a full toss (doesn't bounce at all, easier to hit) or a half-volley (bounces just short of yorker length so the batter can hit it right on the bounce, also easier to hit). A bowler as quick as Brett was or who swings it like Brett did does have some more margin for error though. Even some in this video aren't strictly yorkers though they're equally effective. The one to Marvan Attapatu for example was just a regular full length ball, but swinging in a little and 100mph. Another bowler you should check out the yorkers of is Waqar Younis of Pakistan, late 80s-mid 2000s
Fast bowling (and batting against fast bowling) is a game of strategy and fine margins. Too predictable, the batsman will hit you for runs. So the bowler has to keep adjusting his length to keep the batsman guessing a bit.
If you knew as a batsman every ball was coming fast at your toes, you’d adjust your stance and hit them all for 4 or 6. It’s that the one came fast at your toes and out of nowhere that gets you.
Btw, the bell doesn’t have to bounce - but when it doesn’t bounce it’s much easier to judge and hit. It’s the bounce that adds unpredictability - a full toss is generally regarded as a bad ball because it makes the Batman’s job easier.
152.1 Kilometer/ hour = 94.5 Miles/hours.
In cricket it is not allowed to throw the ball while your trying to bowl throwing a ball it is illegal delivery he is not throwing the ball he is swinging his arms so he can release the ball and make the ball go faster
100 mph, but it bounces first. A yorker is hitting the ground right at the batsman's feet. It can get to them on the full but has to be below the waist.
160 kilometers per hour equals 96 miles per hour.
100 mph is 161 km/h
So, 160 K is just under 100 miles an hour.
Brett was the only bowler who could bowl that fast and remain accurate. There are others who can match that speed but not with much accuracy.
Check him bowling against Piers Morgan, it's hilarious