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Fastest bowlers in IPL 2018

Napa said:
Crap or not, it is still a nice human story. In his words:
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Very nice story. Hope he keeps his spirits high and works harder. Although Ashok Dinda and Vinay Kumar have shown that attitude is not everything, but it is still very important in my opinion.

I wish him good luck.
 
BreadPakoda said:
Very nice story. Hope he keeps his spirits high and works harder. Although Ashok Dinda and Vinay Kumar have shown that attitude is not everything, but it is still very important in my opinion.

I wish him good luck.
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He's miles better than Dinda and Vinay Kumar to be honest. For starters, he's a lot quicker than them. I've seen him bowl in domestic cricket and he seems to be more suited to the longer format. He'll probably do well if he's picked in the ODI squad. T20s just do not seem to be his thing. As I've said before, he's not as bad as people are making him out to be!
 
rexbamezai said:
He's miles better than Dinda and Vinay Kumar to be honest. For starters, he's a lot quicker than them. I've seen him bowl in domestic cricket and he seems to be more suited to the longer format. He'll probably do well if he's picked in the ODI squad. T20s just do not seem to be his thing. As I've said before, he's not as bad as people are making him out to be!
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I'm not comparing him with Dinda and Vinay. It was a tongue-in-cheek remark that while attitude is important, its not everything as skill is important too.
 
Napa said:
Crap or not, it is still a nice human story. In his words:
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cricketjoshila said:
The way Siraj became emotional on his debut when the national Anthem was played was such a inspiring sight.
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For sure! It's wonderful to see sport's power to change the lives of people. Not denying that at all and more power to him. Which is why the fact that top-level sport is so unforgiving. None of these things sadly matters when you don't perform. Case in point was Yuvraj in the 2014 World T20 when he struggled in the final after coming back from Cancer and was panned.

Anyways more power to Siraj. I'd love to be proved wrong (except against Pakistan ;) )
 
Thampi didnt bowl bad yesterday. He got just 2 overs and bowled a fastest of 142ish. Not express, but decent pace.
 
Indian bowlers who have clocked atleast 140 + kph in IPL
Umesh
Avesh
Bumrah
Kaul
Siraj
Mavi
Pandya
Shami
Khejroliya
Bhuvi
Shardul
Chahar
Sran
Ankit Rajpoot
Basil Thampi

Apart from this list, Nagarkoti, Khaleel Ahmed and even Ishant can easily clock 140. Not banging on about quality but it would be inaccurate to claim that these bowlers are trundlers and a decent bunch to work. Some of them can play atleast one format and reduce the workloads of others.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Indian bowlers who have clocked atleast 140 + kph in IPL
Umesh
Avesh
Bumrah
Kaul
Siraj
Mavi
Pandya
Shami
Khejroliya
Bhuvi
Shardul
Chahar
Sran
Ankit Rajpoot
Basil Thampi

Apart from this list, Nagarkoti, Khaleel Ahmed and even Ishant can easily clock 140. Not banging on about quality but it would be inaccurate to claim that these bowlers are trundlers and a decent bunch to work. Some of them can play atleast one format and reduce the workloads of others.
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In comparison, in the 2018 PSL, Pakistani bowlers who clocked 140 kph were

Rumman
Sami
Shaheen
Wahab
Rahat
Faheem
Aamir
Irfan
Salman irshad
Shinwari
Sameen gul
hassan ali?

Apart from these i know that other U19 quick can bowl 140 as well.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Indian bowlers who have clocked atleast 140 + kph in IPL
Umesh
Avesh
Bumrah
Kaul
Siraj
Mavi
Pandya
Shami
Khejroliya
Bhuvi
Shardul
Chahar
Sran
Ankit Rajpoot
Basil Thampi

Apart from this list, Nagarkoti, Khaleel Ahmed and even Ishant can easily clock 140. Not banging on about quality but it would be inaccurate to claim that these bowlers are trundlers and a decent bunch to work. Some of them can play atleast one format and reduce the workloads of others.
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7-8 of them has clocked around 145.

KM Asif is another bowler who can clock 140s.

Varun Aaron can clock 145.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Indian bowlers who have clocked atleast 140 + kph in IPL
Umesh
Avesh
Bumrah
Kaul
Siraj
Mavi
Pandya
Shami
Khejroliya
Bhuvi
Shardul
Chahar
Sran
Ankit Rajpoot
Basil Thampi

Apart from this list, Nagarkoti, Khaleel Ahmed and even Ishant can easily clock 140. Not banging on about quality but it would be inaccurate to claim that these bowlers are trundlers and a decent bunch to work. Some of them can play atleast one format and reduce the workloads of others.
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Good post. Folks who are complaining about Indian fast bowling have not seen cricket in 90s and pre IPL days. We had only one who could bowl over 140, that was Srinath in 90s. 2 or 3 in early 2000s, zheer and nehra. Think about now. Only oldies like me who have seen cricket in 90s know how fortunate we are these days.

Think about venky prasad, kuruvilla, harvindar, chetan Sharma, Madan lal before crying about current fast bowlers.
 
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Send1983 said:
Good post. Folks who are complaining about Indian fast bowling have not seen cricket in 90s and pre IPL days. We had only one who could bowl over 140, that was Srinath in 90s. 2 or 3 in early 2000s, zheer and nehra. Think about now. Only oldies like me who have seen cricket in 90s know how fortunate we are these days.
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Agarkar could clock 140 too.
 
Siraj also bowled few over 145 kph today though got smashed badly.Surprisingly, his speed comes a notch down while playing internationals.
 
LOL Indians overhyping the trundlers. That Siddharth koul acts like he is shoaib akhtar. Pure trundlers surrounded with so many other trundlers. Any bowler can bowl single or two ball at 140 plus it doesn't mean anything. Only avesh khan looked real fast bowler. Even umesh yadav has been bowling in the range of 136-142ks and a odd ball at 145k.
 
dauntless said:
LOL Indians overhyping the trundlers. That Siddharth koul acts like he is shoaib akhtar. Pure trundlers surrounded with so many other trundlers. Any bowler can bowl single or two ball at 140 plus it doesn't mean anything. Only avesh khan looked real fast bowler. Even umesh yadav has been bowling in the range of 136-142ks and a odd ball at 145k.
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Applying your logic, Trent boult, tim southee and glenn Mcgrath are also trundlers.
 
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dauntless said:
LOL Indians overhyping the trundlers. That Siddharth koul acts like he is shoaib akhtar. Pure trundlers surrounded with so many other trundlers. Any bowler can bowl single or two ball at 140 plus it doesn't mean anything. Only avesh khan looked real fast bowler. Even umesh yadav has been bowling in the range of 136-142ks and a odd ball at 145k.
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Right. Personally not a big fan of comparing bowler from country A with bowler from Country B, however it is good to see consistent 140+ bowlers coming up from India where we haven't had a 'fast' bowler other than Srinath in the past. Venkatesh Prasad used to be our opening bowler and he bowled at 120ish. So nothing wrong in getting excited IMO. One bowler who is not mentioned above is Navdeep Saini in RCB. He too clocked 147 in recent domestic tournament! I personally was really happy to see India's fast bowling in SA. It was best ever display on an away tour IMHO
 
EliteCynical said:
Right. Personally not a big fan of comparing bowler from country A with bowler from Country B, however it is good to see consistent 140+ bowlers coming up from India where we haven't had a 'fast' bowler other than Srinath in the past. Venkatesh Prasad used to be our opening bowler and he bowled at 120ish. So nothing wrong in getting excited IMO. One bowler who is not mentioned above is Navdeep Saini in RCB. He too clocked 147 in recent domestic tournament! I personally was really happy to see India's fast bowling in SA. It was best ever display on an away tour IMHO
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Good ol' Venky actually lost a bit of pace by 1999. He had become a trundler by then though quite accurate. He had played non stop cricket for a few years and it took its toll. He was definitely quicker in 96 imo .
 
Send1983 said:
Good post. Folks who are complaining about Indian fast bowling have not seen cricket in 90s and pre IPL days. We had only one who could bowl over 140, that was Srinath in 90s. 2 or 3 in early 2000s, zheer and nehra. Think about now. Only oldies like me who have seen cricket in 90s know how fortunate we are these days.

Think about venky prasad, kuruvilla, harvindar, chetan Sharma, Madan lal before crying about current fast bowlers.
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Harvindar was actually quick. Upwards of 140 atleast. 90's was not such a bad era in terms of Indians having bowlers with decent pace. However, the selection was pathetic, too much of politics and fixing.
 
Rightarmfast said:
Harvindar was actually quick. Upwards of 140 atleast. 90's was not such a bad era in terms of Indians having bowlers with decent pace. However, the selection was pathetic, too much of politics and fixing.
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Ajith Agarkar could bowl in upwards of 140 most of the times and has probably one of the best spells in overseas tests by an Indian fast bowler in the last 20 years or so. His 6/42 helped India win Adelaide test in 2003/04 (Against an ATG batting lineup). There were others like Salil Ankola who did not get proper chances, so he became a TV actor. There was David Johnson, quick but erratic but again the Indian selection policies were poor in the 90's. Srinath was overworked which led to his pulling out of the 1997 tour to WI. Sachin Tendulkar overbowled Srinath and Prasad as India lacked any proper backup for them until Zaheer, Nehra et all came about. Agarkar was a spray gun and couldn't cut it in the longer format.
 
Rightarmfast said:
Harvindar was actually quick. Upwards of 140 atleast. 90's was not such a bad era in terms of Indians having bowlers with decent pace. However, the selection was pathetic, too much of politics and fixing.
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I agree Harvindar was quicker than others mentioned but don’t say we has good fast bowlers those days. Yes nepotism was there but still fast bowling talent was not that good compared to other top teams like Aus, Windies, pak, sa, etc. even England an NZ with poor or not so great team had a better few fast bowlers. We were only competing with SL and Zim in terms of fast bowling. Only because of Sachin, we looked ok outside home and because of Kumble and other spinners at home with great Htb/ftbs we looked great at home. Overall we had an average mid table team. Good eng, aus and sa invited us only twice in that decade. Otherwise away record would have been lot worse.
 
giri26 said:
Ajith Agarkar could bowl in upwards of 140 most of the times and has probably one of the best spells in overseas tests by an Indian fast bowler in the last 20 years or so. His 6/42 helped India win Adelaide test in 2003/04 (Against an ATG batting lineup). There were others like Salil Ankola who did not get proper chances, so he became a TV actor. There was David Johnson, quick but erratic but again the Indian selection policies were poor in the 90's. Srinath was overworked which led to his pulling out of the 1997 tour to WI. Sachin Tendulkar overbowled Srinath and Prasad as India lacked any proper backup for them until Zaheer, Nehra et all came about. Agarkar was a spray gun and couldn't cut it in the longer format.
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That’s right. Couldnt agree more with everything mentioned.

David Johnson, DodavGanesh, Ankola,etc had good pace but not as good or reliable as Srinath. Yes selectors could have given more chances. But they looked way erratic. I remember dodda ganesh and David Johnson on fast SA track. They wasted the ball like anything by being so erratic. This Durban pitch in 96 series, was the fastest I have ever seen. This guy Dodda Ganesh pitching short and wide and wasting it like anything. Venky with 70 miles per hour looked more treatening than even Srinath on that pitch.
 
Send1983 said:
I agree Harvindar was quicker than others mentioned but don’t say we has good fast bowlers those days. Yes nepotism was there but still fast bowling talent was not that good compared to other top teams like Aus, Windies, pak, sa, etc. even England an NZ with poor or not so great team had a better few fast bowlers. We were only competing with SL and Zim in terms of fast bowling. Only because of Sachin, we looked ok outside home and because of Kumble and other spinners at home with great Htb/ftbs we looked great at home. Overall we had an average mid table team. Good eng, aus and sa invited us only twice in that decade. Otherwise away record would have been lot worse.
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I am not saying that the bowlers were great. I am saying that the perception of Indians only having trundlers is wrong. In the 90's, we did have some bowlers who could bowl sharp. But they were not given chance. We had Srinath, Prashant vaidya, ankola, Atul Vasan, Kuruvila in his younger days. I think these bowlers were capable of touching 140 ( Srinath obviously was a 150 guy), but none were handled proper.
 
Avesh generates pace without any fuss.

Easy on the eye.

Munaf could generate pace easily aswell but slowed down in few months only.


India is a big country and it's good to see more than 10 domestic pacers bw age bracket 18 to 25 capable of bowling 140 plus consistently. Good for world cricket.
 
TalentSpotterPk said:
Avesh generates pace without any fuss.

Easy on the eye.

Munaf could generate pace easily aswell but slowed down in few months only.


India is a big country and it's good to see more than 10 domestic pacers bw age bracket 18 to 25 capable of bowling 140 plus consistently. Good for world cricket.
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Munaf was years ago.Currenlty, our pacers reverse the trend.Bhuvi,Deepak Chahar,Sangwan,Khali and even Avesh has increased their pace after their initial years.Result of better grassroots coaching, attitude change and better infrastructure.
 
Dingolfy said:
Munaf was years ago.Currenlty, our pacers reverse the trend.Bhuvi,Deepak Chahar,Sangwan,Khali and even Avesh has increased their pace after their initial years.Result of better grassroots coaching, attitude change and better infrastructure.
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Sangwan was 130-138 kph bowler, now that he has gained muscle and all beefed up he was clocking 146-148 kph
 
To get the pace of these same bowlers when they play internationally remember its X-6km, where X is the IPL pace.
 
rexbamezai said:
And besides these, there's Ankit Rajpoot, Nathu Singh, etc. who can bowl genuinely quick. Don't know if Nathu Singh was picked by any team though. I've heard Aniket Choudhary and Basil Thampi are pretty quick as well, but I've never seen them bowl so don't know their speeds.
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cricketjoshila said:
Ankit Rajpoot played for KKR.
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WengerOut said:
Ankit Rajpoot was a quintessential trundler last time he played for CSK
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Unreal numbers by Rajpoot in the last game:

4-0-14-5
 
rexbamezai said:
And besides these, there's Ankit Rajpoot, Nathu Singh, etc. who can bowl genuinely quick. Don't know if Nathu Singh was picked by any team though. I've heard Aniket Choudhary and Basil Thampi are pretty quick as well, but I've never seen them bowl so don't know their speeds.
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cricketjoshila said:
Ankit Rajpoot played for KKR.
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WengerOut said:
But he was still trundling. Never crossed 140 and his speed was mainly 130-135
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Apparently he gets quite a lot of bounce. 130 to 135 can still be a great bowler, I think Philander bowls at that speed.
 
sshakir411 said:
How fast has Ishant Sharma bowled? Does he even play IPL?
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Ishant Sharma clocked 147.6 kph in last year's IPL, most of the balls were in 140-145k range. This year Ishant was not picked in auctions, so playing county cricket with Sussex. He has scored a fifity and gotten 2-3 wickets every innings so far in the county.
 
So far only impressed with Mavi.Today i saw him and he looks to be ready for internation.At least in t20i.
 
DRsohail said:
So far only impressed with Mavi.Today i saw him and he looks to be ready for internation.At least in t20i.
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Mavi bowled like a newbie he is, Avesh Khan made life hell for International class batsmen, the 148 kph bouncer got Finch by surprise who is an Australian used to playing bounce and fast bowlers. And Avesh Khan bowls heavy balls, the zip and bounce is amazing and should be drafted straight to Indian team if the selectors had any brains.
 
Reddy said:
Mavi bowled like a newbie he is, Avesh Khan made life hell for International class batsmen, the 148 kph bouncer got Finch by surprise who is an Australian used to playing bounce and fast bowlers. And Avesh Khan bowls heavy balls, the zip and bounce is amazing and should be drafted straight to Indian team if the selectors had any brains.
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Have to see more of him i mean avesh khan.I have heard that finch is running bad form but Mavi is real deal he should be drafted into international t20 to develop him.
 
DRsohail said:
Have to see more of him i mean avesh khan.I have heard that finch is running bad form but Mavi is real deal he should be drafted into international t20 to develop him.
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Avesh Khan is much better than Mavi as he is taller and faster than him, Age also plays a factor Avesh is 21 and Mavi is still a teenager, Avesh has gotten faster in last 2 years, earlier he was 135-144k bowler but now he has increased it to 140k-149k.

Just forget about these young kids getting any chance in the Indian team, the selectors are not throwing out Dhoni when he is a clear liability and there are 3-4 better options than him available. Selectors and Team management are giving minimal chances to KL Rahul who is the best batsmen since Virat Kohli, the days of young players getting a chance for playing for India is over unless either the selection team or Team Management changes.
 
Reddy said:
Avesh Khan is much better than Mavi as he is taller and faster than him, Age also plays a factor Avesh is 21 and Mavi is still a teenager, Avesh has gotten faster in last 2 years, earlier he was 135-144k bowler but now he has increased it to 140k-149k.

Just forget about these young kids getting any chance in the Indian team, the selectors are not throwing out Dhoni when he is a clear liability and there are 3-4 better options than him available. Selectors and Team management are giving minimal chances to KL Rahul who is the best batsmen since Virat Kohli, the days of young players getting a chance for playing for India is over unless either the selection team or Team Management changes.
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Dhoni is there in the team for his keeping and captaincy skills.And Avesh is fast bowler who clocks 145 which is a rare commodity in India.So If he proves his mettle in IPL by taking more wickets, he will get a chance in Indian team for sure.
 
Dingolfy said:
Dhoni is there in the team for his keeping and captaincy skills.And Avesh is fast bowler who clocks 145 which is a rare commodity in India.So If he proves his mettle in IPL by taking more wickets, he will get a chance in Indian team for sure.
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Dhoni is useful in low scoring games. His game suits them. But in high scoring games, he is a big liability.
 
Reddy said:
Avesh Khan is much better than Mavi as he is taller and faster than him, Age also plays a factor Avesh is 21 and Mavi is still a teenager, Avesh has gotten faster in last 2 years, earlier he was 135-144k bowler but now he has increased it to 140k-149k.

Just forget about these young kids getting any chance in the Indian team, the selectors are not throwing out Dhoni when he is a clear liability and there are 3-4 better options than him available. Selectors and Team management are giving minimal chances to KL Rahul who is the best batsmen since Virat Kohli, the days of young players getting a chance for playing for India is over unless either the selection team or Team Management changes.
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This is bad.Avesh khan got the better of Raina today i saw on CI which shows the guy has the potential.I will not mind both touring with the team and playing an off game after IPL.The only way they will learn.Yes Dhoni is liabilty and he should be discarded as Jadeja and Ashwin were in Loi.Inidan selectrs wasted 2 years of Yuvi and Dhoni is going to cast them more.
 
DRsohail said:
This is bad.Avesh khan got the better of Raina today i saw on CI which shows the guy has the potential.I will not mind both touring with the team and playing an off game after IPL.The only way they will learn.Yes Dhoni is liabilty and he should be discarded as Jadeja and Ashwin were in Loi.Inidan selectrs wasted 2 years of Yuvi and Dhoni is going to cast them more.
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At-least these players are making good money, earning multiple crores while still being a teenager or Early 20s whereas earlier such bowlers used to languish in Ranji trophy playing for few lakhs and dropping speeds as there was nobody watching and they wanted to extend their career. Nowadays no Indian pacer drops a lot of pace like ten years back due to IPL financial safety.

Mavi and Avesh are also lucky to be getting chance in the IPL playing XI, KM Asif and Khaleel Ahmed are another two young fast bowlers in the range of 140k-145k but are not getting chances.

Khaleel was picked for 3 crores by Hyderabad but they have loads of good bowlers, so he does not get any chance, KM Asif is with Chennai and they are oldies favouring team. Hopefully both of them get transferred in the mid-season transfer period to any other team like RCB who needs such bowlers.
 
Good too see some speeds in IPL and now we know ranji trophy speeds were true I had my doubts but they have been nullified. If mavi already hitting 149 can easily be a 155kph bowler,
 
Kashmirilion said:
Good too see some speeds in IPL and now we know ranji trophy speeds were true I had my doubts but they have been nullified. If mavi already hitting 149 can easily be a 155kph bowler,
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You were the one mocking me about my statements. Time to take your words back. Almost all the domestic bowlers have been cranking it up to 140k's and quite a few cranking it over 145!
 
Looks like the speed guns have been caliberated correctly now.
 
Siraj, Mavi and Avesh at nearly 150! Upto the BCCI and team management to groom them properly and help them have a great int'l career.

We have Nagerkotti and Khaleel Ahmed not playing, both of them can be 145+ as well. Thats a set of 5 very young bowlers bowling at speeds which no Indian pacers have regularly bowled at. How I wish we had a proper bowling coach at NCA and with India A setup to groom these young ones.
 
cricketindiafan said:
Siraj, Mavi and Avesh at nearly 150! Upto the BCCI and team management to groom them properly and help them have a great int'l career.

We have Nagerkotti and Khaleel Ahmed not playing, both of them can be 145+ as well. Thats a set of 5 very young bowlers bowling at speeds which no Indian pacers have regularly bowled at.<b> How I wish we had a proper bowling coach at NCA and with India A setup to groom these young ones <b>.
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How exactly do you think we have so many young kids now bowling north of 140s? Its because of coaches and trainers at NCA and other cricket academies.Coaching is a completely different discipline and you need to be a great player to be a good coach.And a great player need not be a great coach too.
 
KM Asif finally gets an opportunity! Lots of 140+ deliveries. I think 143 kph was his quickest today.
 
Dingolfy said:
How exactly do you think we have so many young kids now bowling north of 140s? Its because of coaches and trainers at NCA and other cricket academies.Coaching is a completely different discipline and you need to be a great player to be a good coach.And a great player need not be a great coach too.
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Thats true but these young ones now need another world class bowling coach to go to the next level. TA Sekar and Hirwani have done great job as pace and spin coaches with help of physio and strengthening team to get them ready.
 
Avesh Khan looks like the real deal. Pace and aggression.

Missing Nagarkoti. He surely would have been at the top of the charts had he played.
 
Mavi clocked another on at 149.9 yesterday, with plenty of 144-146 kph balls thrown in in the mix.
Terrible captaincy by Karthick in the second over of his yesterday.
 
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