Haris was clocked at 92.4 mph in LQ trials in Gujranwala in 2017. That is 148.7 kph.
Yesterday he clocked 148 kph twice. After over number 2 the screen showed his fastest delivery to be 148 kph and than again in his 4th over he clocked 148 kph.
Haris is exciting to watch and one for the future. But people need to calm down because he is FAST which is exciting indeed but not Express at the moment. Reactions are as if he is Express and next Shoaib or Sami interms of speed.
Next step is very important and will be the deciding factor in terms of which way he goes. And that is all technical work.
To be dead honest NCA is not well equipped neither wrt latest biomechanics equipment nor the workman force. So any attempt to change his action and run up in Non Scientific way will result in another disaster.
Waseem Khan should send Haris to any high performance centre in UK, Aus, NZ or SA and PCB should be willing to pay what they demand.
1. Haris needs to lengthen his Run Up just like what Mark Wood has done recently. He will get more momemtum which would increase speed.
2. He needs to stay perpendicular in his delivery stride. He falls abit to his left due to which
a. He loses height (Already 5'10 5'11) hence he loses bounce.
b. He is on position to be able to bowl outswingers since with this his wrist and fingers cannot align to bowl outswingers. Currently seam points towards legslip and it helps him get dip and reverse which is good from one angle only.
c. His body is not fully behind so he loses 3-5 kph.
Once he fixes these issues than he will become Express and will not just rely on pace or reverse only but he will get conventional swing or seam aswell.
Ryan Harris, Starc, Cummins, Pattinson, Wood, Milne & Ferguson are all products of High Performance centres.
Only Kagiso Rabada was all Natural & gifted.
No Random tinkering with actions or runup was done. Rather there are state of the art Biomechanics equipment which analyse actions scientifically and than there are human movements experts, biomechanic experts and trained bowling Coaches which as a team make bowling actions efficient Scientifically.
At PCB you have Biomechanics equipment of Naseem Ashraf's time like 15 years old that too in LUMS and rotting from years. Redundant equipment and we have neither human movements consultants nor biomechanics experts.
It's been 2 years that the so called LAB is operational and we haven't seen a single improvement in any Pace bowler in Pakistan wrt either skillset nor speed at all levels.
Personally I would not want Aqib, Waseem, Waqar or even Shoaib to alter Haris's Action or Runup by Hit or Trial methods ie " Tuqqa analogy ".
It's a professional and scientific job these days.
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