Hell for Leather-the fastest bowlers in cricket history
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Compilation of fastest bowlers in cricket history bowler's in the video are:- Tibby cotter Ted McDonald Harold Larwood Bill voce Gubby Allen ken farnes Manny Martindale Learie Constantine Ernie McCormick Keith Miller Ray Lindwall Frank Tyson and Fred Truman
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Larwood's arm speed is insane! It even looks fast in slow motion.
I don't think people who follow cricket today realise just how quick Larwood was and on top of that he was very accurate as well which makes a big difference when facing someone of that speed.
There was an Aussie chap who tried to recreate facing him, and some computer analysis on his first spell during the Adelaide test match of the Bodyline series, said he averaged 92-93mph in that spell. No other quick bowler in that series came close to that
Larwood also had a magnificent and very simple action.
I liked the rare footage of these legends, especially after I found the mute button.
Also, the green font used for the bowlers names was hard to read.
Otherwise thank you.
Harold Larwood fastest of all time
Great vid
Dream on chum!
Harold had one of the best ever bowling actions looking at newsreel footage of the time ... a great English sportsman & treated criminally by the MCC after his efforts in the bodyline tour ...should have been knighted for his efforts
Yes he is the fastest bowler of all the time
Certainly one of the fastest of all time, but there may have been a few that were quicker, eg Tyson, Thomson, Aktar, Lee. But unlike most fast bowlers Larwood was extremely accurate which meant he was VERY dangerous. If a ball hits you you really aren't going to notice if it's 100mph or 95mph.
Thanks for the rare footage.Great work.They were all fierce.Good old days.Anyone still living?
Nope they all rest in peace
Larwood had such a beautiful action
Very simple, and huge arm speed. Hardly ever injured, apart from the Bodyline series, when he broke his foot. It was a travesty that he never played for England again after that.
Larwood - sheer poetry in motion!
Larwood bowling was a thing of beauty.
I once,for a laugh,faced a bowling machine set at a mere 85 mph (most of these bowlers were 90mph + and Larwood rumoured to be 100mph +)and it was all I could do to protect myself.How you score runs against that kind of bowling is beyond me!!!
That was probably faster than Larwood tbh
@@JasonX2 ...I believe Larwood's speed was reliably estimated to be aroud 95/96mph. In any event, he was considerably quicker than the mid-eighties!
@@JasonX2I was timed at just over 86 mph back in 1983, and I'm absolutely certain Larwood was a good bit faster than me!
Superb work! Ray Lindwall looked particularly menacing.
He does! The delivery at 7.10 can be easily followed by eye and if you do the sums with the setting speed at 1/4 . Its right up in the 100mph
I was thinking just how rapid he looked.
Cotters action is similar to Thompson's and Tysons 'slingshot'. Front foot rule probably helped modern batsmen. Some of these bowlers were not top drawer. Music by deaf kev; unfortunately I am not deaf and had to listen to it
Some of the fastest bowlers of all time combined with some of the worst music of all time.
Magnificent stuff first time iv'e seen Tibby Cotter great to see thanks.
No problem glad you like it
Larwood's and McDonald's actions look amazing, would stand the test of time. Can't see how Tyson managed such pace with that complex jerky action. Still he was probably the fasted of all these wonderful bowlers from what I've read.
No surprise that he was called "Typhoon"! But from what I've read down through the years Harold Larwood was the fastest of them all and certainly deadly accurate. A man you'd prefer to play WITH rather than AGAINST!
Yeah right ...soon will make a short documentary on Tyson
Paul Herring it’s the distance and speed of the displacement from gather to release . Both he and Thomson got the ball from way back behind the hip to release so fast they threw themselves off their feet . Strong trunk twist and flick of the wrist add extra snap .
@@chokurei38 ...Mark Wood throws himself off his feet. He was clocked in the recent Ashes series at 96.5mph - one has to assume that that is not the fastest delivery that he has ever bowled........especially as it was bowled by a 33yr. old!!
Look at Tyson’s shoulders and body contortions. Very wide shoulders, flexible back and very muscular frame. That’s where he got the power from - but he got injured a lot - unlike Trueman and Statham who had far simpler actions, but who were no less effective.
My late Father watched cricket for more than 60 years as well as playing it as a young man and i remember asking him who was the fastest bowler he ever saw , he said Frank Tyson , now i thought he was going to say it was one of the Windies quicks or Jeff Thompson but he was adamant that Tyson was the fastest and in an interview some years later Richie Benaud came to the same conclusion that at his zenith he was the fastest he had ever seen, not the best but the fastest.
Great tribute to old time fast bowlers!
Glad you liked it..at that time i was rookie in making videos i choose the wrong text and music for this video
Queenslander, Eddie Gilbert, was Don Bradman's pick as the fastest that he ever faced.
There is now a Statue of Eddie at the Allan Border Oval in Brisbane.
Sadly, Eddie was in the Shield team but didn't play for Australia.
Yeah he was a great bowler
He was so fast he hit the bat out of Bradman's hands and apparently on his follow through his fingers would touch the pitch
@@zcricket3890 If Thommo could make 110 mph then Gilbert obviously could make 120 mph
Eddie Gilbert.Indigenous fast bowler Bowled Sr D Bradman for a duck , fastest bowler in Australia in the 1930's.
Eddie Gilbert could have played in the bodyline series, fight fire with fire, but Bradman apparently said no, he had difficulty accepting Catholics in the team, so an Indigenous man might have been too much for him. Or he may have been embarrassed about his dismissal to Gilbert, who also knocked the bat from his hands. Bradman acknowledged that Gilbert was lightning fast but questioned his action. Gilbert bowled from a short run, a flurry of arms and a whippy right arm action. Umpires seemed to view his action as legit.
He was certainly too quick for Bradman that day, that particular spell would have to rank with the fastest ever. If Bradman couldn't handle him, imagine the bush batsman having to face up to him!
love ur videos
harold larwood is fastest of all time
Thanks
Ditto
LOL...good quick bowler...but not in race for the fastest
@@thornwivansgarbage ..Bradman said Larwood bowled regularly at 100 mph .
Really champ here is the guy who managed to record n save all the footage here
How about carrying on after Fred Trueman? How about Jeff Thompson, and the crop of West Indies bowlers in the 70s and 80s, hope you do another video. Also put up which country they're from..
good wok it's hard to get these old videos
Yes..... Thanks man
keep posting more stuffs i ll keep supporting u
I've always thought Larwood was the fastest. Even in slow motion he looks faster than most other bowlers.
Back then there was no technological innovation to measure fast bowlers pace so we can just debate.From what I've read the then 4 fastest bowlers were Tyson, Larwood, Gilbert and McCormick
Very good . Keep it up.
Richie Benaud said the second fastest he ever saw was Jeff T.
The very fastest was Frank Tyson. Nuff said.
Benaud said that Tyson's bowling in the Boxing Day Test Match in Melbourne 1954/55 was the fastest he ever saw.
@@geoffreybriggs7501 and that's saying something because a couple times at the Gabba, I saw Thommo hit the sightscreen before the ball bounced a second time. If he wasn't easily 170kmh on a good day using the current speed measuring gear they use, I'm not here.
Tyson claimed that he could bowl at 192 kph
@@zcricket3890 You guys are ridiculous. These bowlers from the 1930s and 40s would have been lucky to bowl 130kph TOPS.
@@zcricket3890 Tyson speed was once measured in english ground in and around 1954 to be 106 mph
By the time the ball reaches the batsman it has slowed down considerably. All these speed measurements are taken just after it has left the hand, not when it gets to the other end. It's worth bearing in mind when people talk about someone bowling at 95mph.
He moving quickly away from the pitch so it tell that how strong he is
Where the hell was Thommo.He and Lillee struck fear into the English hearts,so much so that several older batsmen hastened their retirement after the 74/75 Ashes series in Australia. TW,Don Bradman said that he had never seen anyone bowl faster,or as fast,as Jeff Thommson in his prime,with the possible exception of Frank Tyson,for a very short time.
This is the era before colour footage, and speed measuring equipment. I still think Larwood was faster than anyone though.
1:30 Brisbane, January 14, 1933. Australian captain Bill Woodfull staggers after being hit over the heart by a ball from Larwood. The previous ball had narrowly missed his head.
Woodfull had heart of a lion
Just goes to prove there is no substitute for pace.
Bowlers today are definitely quicker than these. You only have to look how far back the wicket keeper was standing.Good to watch though.
Larwood by a country mile! 5'9" of Nuncargate dynamite. 90 mph+
Interesting difference in reactions from Larwood when Woodfull and Oldfield were struck. Oldfield was struck and Harold runs up to see how he is, genuine concern displayed and this backs up what he said in interviews, Bertie was his mate. With Woodfull, Harold just turned to get his cap from the umpire and then slowly walks back to see what all the fuss was about. Harold was genuine legend! A perfect action.
LOL! The guy was bowling around 120 - 130kph tops. This is indicative by how close the keeper and slips are standing.
@@pacus123 quick enough on an uncovered wicket. That being said, it's hard to determine how far up the keeper and slips are. The reports of contemporary players who experienced later eras would suggest that a lot of these bowlers were quicker than 130.
That is at time, at least. Certainly with Keith Miller, he could bowl extraordinarily quickly but would rarely ramp it up to the limit
@@pacus123stop talking crap scientists have analyzed Larwood s action frame by frame ..result Larwood was 10 kph faster than Brett Lee .
But thanks for the upload classical fast bowlers all of them
Mohammad Nissar, Wes Hall, Charlie Griffith, Keith Miller, Peter Pollock, John Snow, Brian Statham not included
Don't forget the great Brown of Brighton, an underarm bowler of the 1820's. Felix, who was a Belgian, reported that he played in a match at Bournemouth, Sussex v. Hampshire, where Brown bowled a ball so fast that it burst through the wicket keeper's gloves, evaded the 4 long stops and killed a dog on the boundary! The final long stop had a bale of straw taped to his chest in case of injury! Now that is fast bowling!!
@@geoffreybriggs7501 I heard he once bowled a chap by digging the ball in so short it buried in a good length from the other end before tunnelling under the wicket and reemerging just in time to take the bottom of off
Keith was there
It might have been interesting to see some relatively modern quicks like Shoaib Akhtar and Allan Donald to see how / if things have changed much especially as there is probably better footage of them. I noticed when you could see where the feet were landing there would be fewer no balls on the cricketers shown through overstepping.
Watch the umpire turn to watch the run up of the bowler then spin to see the batsman play the shot !! 5.20min mark
Viv Richards said the fastest he faced were Thomson and the little known Duncan Spencer, which means that those two were quicker than Holding, Roberts, Daniel etc
Duncan spencer was recorded @157.7kph (98mph)
@@anirudhsuresh4481 There is some footage on UA-cam and he looks very fast indeed.
@@anirudhsuresh4481when/where was that?
@@jimandrews8768 Yes bro in 1993 i think
Great video - some of which I have never seen before. There are several issues here when discussing fast bowlers.
1. Firstly, they played on uncovered pitches, which meant the ball had variable bounce, nobody bowls at full pace for long periods, then or now.
2. The protection of the batsmen were paper thin in comparison to the post helmet days and gloves and pads are more able to withstand the shock of a cricket ball today. I would hate to have to face even an 80 mph bowler with early 1900's protection, imagine the damage and pain!
Nobody likes to face 90 mph bowling (even modern cricketers), with all their modern protection, including arm guards and chest protection, batting with the illusional belief that you won't get hurt.
3. The speed generated by the action, whether it be "front on or Side on" or a "Slinger, depends upon the physicality of the bowler. The taller you are, the more bounce you will generate whilst the shorter, stockier bowler will skid on, both have its dangers. The "whip" you generate in your arm action will also assist in the speed, hence you get more whip in the slinger action. The side on action can generate more speed through use of the hip twist onto your front leg, allowing more stress on the front leg and more efficient use of the body.
4. As for speeds, a recent video by academics using modern technology showed that Harold Larwood against Jeff Thomson (both considered to be the fastest of their time), both bowled at over the 90 mph mark, and both were considered to be very accurate. I would most certainly get a hamstring twinge before going out to bat against either of them.
...I'm not sure that Jeff Thomson was ever considered to be 'very accurate'...!! In fact, didn't he once make a comment along the lines of 'if I don't know where the ball is going, how can the batsman be expected to know!'
Donald Bradman swears that Harold Larwood was bowling at around 100mph regularly.
In 1933, that must have been scary stuff. Argument over Bodyline aside, that Australia side had balls of steel.
Yeah specially woodfull he took so many blows
Still,for me, all the ‘steely balls’ really belonged to Larwood. To imagine that he delivered over after over with that pace, accuracy and hostile intent, that is what a fast bowler will mean to me.
Always.
@@ayanchalk not to mention that it ruined his career!
@@davidhemsworth4098 So true
And Eddie G was faster!
Wonderful video...but the names of these old bowlers MUST BE VERY CLEAR...THANKS
You can see in description
Ridiculous freaking music. What were you thinking?
I think Keith Miller's bowling was too difficult for the batsman of that era. He bowled too little but came to bowl when the situation demanded. His bowling average was also fantastic. I think he was way better than his bowling pair Ray LIndwal.
Refused to bowl short in the post war tours. Said people had seen enough pain.
@@CalebCluff...interesting comment.Cheers
there is not even a single front on bowlers everyone are side on bowlers that seems amazing
Can't clap with both hands
given that we know the distance between release and the crease, and how many frames the ball took to get there (24 per second?), can we not speculate on what the speed would be at release?
93 mphh
They all have got some sort of weird actions
With less coaching they all bowled with there own unique style
I'd theorise those actions were developed to cope with a lot of cricket. Up until the 1970s, in England at least, the amount of cricket played in a summer was staggering. Players like Trueman and Statham bowled upwards of 100,000 balls in their careers, and most of that bowling was condensed into the English summer.
As a bowler you'd need a pretty robust action to survive between 28 and 32 three day games a season for 18 or 19 consecutive years.
Even Tyson, whose career only lasted 8 years managed 244 first class games. For comparisons sake Glenn McGrath played 189 in 15 years.
Richie Benaud said that Frank Tyson was the quickest he'd ever faced and would be rated express pace, up there with Akhtar, Thommo, Holding, Marshall, Lee, Donald etc.
Thomo was by far the fastest. His speeds were measured from his hand to the wicketkeeper. By the time Aktar played, they were measured from hand to stumps
@@TheMarathonomahos not actually true. His quickest ball measured, at Perth in 1975, was measured from the hand, the same as now, at 160 km/hr... seriously quick. By the method u were mentioning, he was measured at 147 km/hr during a competition to find the world's quickest bowler during WSC.
@@craigrodgers9693 yes actually thommos 160.45kph at hand release was 129.92kph @ batters end and 159.49kph was 138.40kph at batters end 160.45kph was a bouncer that's why it reached slower towards the batsman
Thomson the fastest ever before shoulder injury up to 110 mph when he was 100 mph was after injury fastest ever with conventional action non slinging D K Lillie 95-99mph have a look at him early 70s before his back was injured off his long run terrifying & the action almost perfect side on balance everything he was the King of them all
Frank Tyson is the fastest bowler of all time , add to that uncovered wickets and no helmets
Tysons arm was like a sling shot.
What does the "music" add to this video?
All these wonderful fast bowlers & the batsmen facing 95+mph deliveries with a cloth cap as head protection...sheesh!
I couldn't watch the video until I pressed "mute" - the FOREground music was appalling.
tyson looked very fast.
Can't help but notice how close the wicket-keepers were standing given the express pace of the bowlers! Thanks for the rare clip👍
It wasn't really express pace by today's standards.
The average seam bowler was probably bowling at 75-80 mph, with the fastest getting up to the high 80's or maybe 90 the odd time, whereas today it's 83-88 mph with bowlers more regularly getting into the early 90's
...For the late, great Richie Benaud to say Tyson was the quickest he ever saw must mean something. Larwood was reliably estimated to be in the mid-nineties!!
Can't clap with both hands¿¡
All other bowlers' actions look messy and clumsily flailing compared with the grace and focussed power of Larwood.
Except Trueman - who had a superb action.
@@geoffwright2845 Truman indeed had a great action, but the gather wasn't quite as perfect as Larwood's and Freddie was an 80-85 mph bowler rather than mid 90s.
I know spin bowlers with longer run ups than Voce
Lakewood by miles
Can't read the names properly
How quick was Manny Martindale and learie constantine
Mediocre, Tyson and Larwood were much faster
Former England captain Bob Wyatt was batting in the West Indies and Martindale broke his jaw with a very sharp delivery. Martindale went to the hospital at close of play to see how he was. In reply Wyatt wrote that he was as well as could be expected. Martindale wrote back that he was sorry. Wyatt then wrote: "you don't have to write it down I haven't gone deaf." He said, years later, that Martindale was the fastest bowler he ever faced.
Wow thanks for sharing this story
And where is Hall and Griffiths?
Great apart from the fact the silly music ruined it
D k lillee mean moody magnificent same age as me 73
Terrible music , names not very clear . But the content first class .
Impossible to watch a modern American movie without some reference to Baseball , a very boring game.
Just before I retired played in a works friendly match , though being 60 still enjoyed a knock about. Had to bowl two overs of slow medium pace , got one ball to lift and nip back catching the batsman just above his box . He fell to his knees , soon recuperated . If someone of my pace could do that , what was it like to be hit by a real quickie.
5 seconds in and that appalling background noise has me not watching any more
Most of them had slinging actions
Larwood didn't. Pure speed .
Lennie Pascoe was faster than all these
Quite a few slingers in that lot - given that some of them jogged up to the crease, it doesn't surprise me.
The names unclear difficult to read
You are like children he was the best no he was the best etc etc, the kangaroo, s are going to say there man his best, the English will say there man, but from a neutral point of view, it as already been stated that larwood was poetry in motion.,and supposedly the formers best batsman was bradman could not contain larwood, as his run rate shows, 57 or something like that as you cricket fans will know.
I dislike this video on three counts: The background music is irritating. 2 The name-writing is poor. 3 The selection is unimpressive.
Apart from that you think it’s great. Keith Miller my pick. One of the greatest all rounders plus Royal Australian pilot in Second World War. That’s class. Take care.
Lillee was the fastest, at his peak
Never as quick as thommo...
Nowhere near ..not even in the top 10
Great bowlers for their eras no doubt, but I'd be genuinely surprised if anyone is much over 80 mph out of these lot, and a lot slower in most cases. The game has moved on in every way since these days, you're mad if you think somehow they had record bowling speeds back then.
If someone like the late, great Richie Benaud has stated that Frank Tyson was the fastest that he ever saw, then that's good enough for me.....& should be for you. Harold Larwood was reliably estimated to be regularly bowling at 95/96mph!
@geoffwright2845 Nah, we have better measurement technology now too yet somehow we're not as quick. Nonsense! Larwood was 80 mph.
@@geoffwright2845incorrect. Bradman said Larwood was bowling at 100 mph ..he even went to the Australian cricket board and told them this .
@@JasonX2are you serious ??? Larwood was analysed by frame by frame by scientists. Result 100 mph birdbrain .
How far back the keeper stands is usually an indicator of speed. On that basis alone, I don't believe any of these look quicker than (or even as quick as) the modern quickies. One or two such as Tyson, look to be up around 85-90mph, though difficult to see where Tyson gets his pace with such an awkward action. Nostalgia will add a yard or two.
Agree with you but look at the actions of ted mcdonald and harold larwood they have perfect actions i think you can bowl pretty fast with type of action
Benaud said he was the fastest he ever faced or saw. Benaud was never one to exagerate.
get rid of the din!!
All barr a few of these are medium pace.
The first guy looked like a chucker.
Tibby cotter was not a chucker by any means
This was a demo video if limited value - he was wearing a cap for God's sake. But even in that video, the arm is abnormally straight. In no way throwing the ball
Does anyone actually like this music,it's total white and doesn't add anything
lol!....Some of these were rubbish....!
Bad music and daft graphics
I cannot watch this because of the idiotic music. Music! Sorry noise.
You can watch my other videos then 😎
Many at my school were quicker than these guys
Nice joke
That is why you are a sparrow!
@@zcricket3890 Not a joke at all
Yeah that was not a joke that was bullshit
@@zcricket3890 Yours is codwallop
Terrible music