Who is the fastest bowler ever in the history of the game in terms of average bowling speed?

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A bit sad, actually.

I consider Shoaib to have been a potential all-time great, who sacrificed wickets for speed. It's exhilarating to watch him in his pomp, but he never even reached 200 Test wickets. He was good enough to: I will never forget how he won you the Second Test in South Africa in 2006-07.

I should add that I consider Mohammad Sami to have been a squandered talent too. That pace and movement, he should have achieved a lot more.

 

[kingusama92]

Shoaib Akhtar.

He was bowling rapidly even during his last few years. He cut into his career because of this craze for being quick.

His peak alone was destructive in terms of pace, but I think his whole career would put him right at the top of the heap.

 

[axl100mph]

A bit sad, actually.

I consider Shoaib to have been a potential all-time great, who sacrificed wickets for speed. It's exhilarating to watch him in his pomp, but he never even reached 200 Test wickets. He was good enough to: I will never forget how he won you the Second Test in South Africa in 2006-07.

I should add that I consider Mohammad Sami to have been a squandered talent too. That pace and movement, he should have achieved a lot more.

Sami gives me the biggest heartache that you can imagine. The dude literally had everything.
The only thing missing was a personality.
He literally had no self belief and had to play under one of the most defensive captains who tried to turn him into a stock bowler.

Even after making a comeback recently, he was made to bowl the death overs, something he is just not good at and shouldnt be made to do.

If used as an attacking new ball bowler, I feel he can still do a job and will be much more effective than the dross we are playing currently .
Just exhaust all his overs before the 30th over n he'll be fine

 

[MMHS]

Thompson was faster the Holding 5/7 clicks. He was the fastest bowler of his era and that too by far. Watch the video below:

Thomo was clearly the fastest, even when past his prime, and I believe after shoulder injury.

I have seen this video several times - a very catchy one in 70s standard. It's a bluff, which Holding (or Khan) explained later - every bowler was bowling, Thompson bowled chest height full toss. As I said, it was very colorful in 70s - high speed camera, slow mo ................ now days they analyze these with super motion high speed 3D camera, with a slow mo capable enough to record the squeeze of a golf ball after being hit by the club for some micro second. Shohaib, Lee & probably Zahid (& WY) clocked 160+ in match situation. I believe in such jokes, any of them could have reached 170KM bowling beamers without caring for the front foot.


Here the discussion is about average speed - may be we can take the fastest couple of years pace for a bowler. A bowler can only bowl consistently 145km+ if he is extremely fit athlete, with rhythmic fast run-up & extremely smooth action. The fundamental of fast bowling is very similar to a javelin thrower or a triple jumper - you gain momentum from your fast run-up, you use your body as a spring coil to transfer that momentum through smooth bowling action & strong ligaments (that's why it's bowling, not throwing or pitching like baseball - you can't use force from your elbow) & use your front foot as a launching pad to release the momentum into a 5.5 oz leather piece & finally a perfect follow-through for a proper rehabilitation (otherwise you can't bowl fast more than 2/3 overs). I can tell that, if the NO Ball rule is changed to back-foot law like till 50s, every fast bowler of modern era 'll add 7 to 10 KM with their effort ball, just by landing front-foot randomly. Now, without that smooth run-up & rhythmic action, if you are to bowl FAST for longer spells, you have to have a Cyborg's shoulders. I picked Holding because his run-up & action was silky, he could bowl fast for hours together. Shohaib & Lee (& the other 2) I have SEEN in my own eyes & some of them at nets, from 20 yards.


In 70s with live telecast & increasing money, Cricket entered into professional era from those armature days & there is always a first movers hype - from those SUPER FAST days of Tyson & Hall, in 70s, first time world watched a bowler carrying the ball to WK, still on the rise - it's something like Juan Manuel Fangio - first time he drove a car at a speed closer to what I did in 2010 from Stuttgart to Munich on Autobann - drive around 200KM/hr. These footage are taken in practice session, still it's showing pace of ~140KM for most - that's Srinath's average pace during his fastest days - now one has to explain me that the footage must be taken by poor camera, you have to add 20km with that.

Cricket reached it Zenith in 80s & 90s, before that for 20 years, it was transforming from an elite English armature pass time to a Professional sports, after that dirty people stole the life of the game - you talk anything between late 70s to late 90s, I am with you; rest I 'll have some "Critical thinking to share".

Cricket is a very easy game, until you make it complex thinking critically. Do you think that, when I BOLDLY made that comment that "certainly not Thompson", I wasn't aware of this joke video?

 

[Justcrazy]

Shoaib was consistently the fastest.

 

[Muhammad Saad]

If you take number of playing years and average pace from each year and then derive an average , than it has to be Akhtar , 2nd one will be far far behind than him.

 

[Robert]

The oldies would believe in conjecture but not facts
Just how it is I guess
There just hasnt been a faster bowler than shoaib, period

That's conjecture, not fact I'm afraid.

 

[axl100mph]

That's conjecture, not fact I'm afraid.

mate, then you needed to buy a pair of glasses when he was playing.


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[Robert]

mate, then you needed to buy a pair of glasses when he was playing.

Why, would that make me think he was quicker than bowlers I'm too young to remember too?

 

[axl100mph]

Why, would that make me think he was quicker than bowlers I'm too young to remember too?

Lol dude
Do u think I m a novice to understanding fast bowling?
Whatever I m saying is after a good understanding of biomechanics.
And yes, I have seen most of those hyped fast bowlers that terrorised batsmen who:
1) Had no helmets or good safety equipment
2)had no bowling machines to practise facing fast bowling on
3) were amateurs who would take cricket as a second job.

All that comes after the biomechanical analysis.
Aside from thomson and holding, there wasnt any 150 kph bowler in the 80's
Imran and lilee at their peaks weee 140-150.

Marshal was wasim akram's pace. Probably just a bit quicker
But
none of these had the mechanics to match shoaib's hyperextensive leverage or brett lee perfect use of drop step front foot block.

And plzz spare me the stories of typhoon tyson or larwood



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Fastest deliveries in Test cricket

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