Saturday, December 10, 2011

Who is realy the fastest bowler ever?

These days, with radar guns and modern technology, a bowler's speed can be accurately measured to almost the hundredth of a kilometre per hour. However, some boffins examined film footage of Frank "Typhoon" Tyson bowling in the early 1950s, and by examining it frame-by-frame, deduced that the ball had travelled the distance from hand to batsman at nearly 160 km/h. That's fast! Considering that Brett Lee and Akhtar were timed at 160 at the point of release ... the ball would have lost speed by the time it reached the batsman. Note: Tyson's bowling was AVERAGED over 22 yards at that speed, which suggests at the point of delivery (when Lee and Akhtar were measured) would have been well over their fastest !!

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