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Fast bowling (also referred to as pace bowling) is a type of bowling in cricket, in which the ball is delivered at high speed. The fastest bowlers bowl the ball at over 90mph. [ 1 ] Practitioners of fast bowling are known as fast bowlers or quicks . [ 2 ]
Jeffrey Robert Thomson (born 16 August 1950) is a former Australian cricketer.Known as "Thommo", he is one of the fastest bowlers in the history of cricket; he bowled a delivery with a speed of 160.6 km/h against the West Indies in Perth in 1975, which was the fastest recorded delivery at the time, and the fourth-fastest recorded delivery of all time. [1]
This type of bowler can be further classified according to the speed at which they bowl the ball on average. Most pace bowlers are medium-fast to fast in top level cricket. In general, bowlers of this type are described as right arm or left arm "fast" or "medium-fast". Another technique of fast bowling is the sling action.
The velocities of cricket bowlers vary between 40 and 100 mph (64 and 161 km/h). In professional cricket, a bowler in the 40–60 mph range would be said to be a slow bowler, in the 60–80 mph range a medium pace bowler, and a bowler 80 mph+ a fast bowler. In the amateur game, these distinctions would be approximately 10 mph slower.
Shoaib Akhtar (pronounced [ʃoeːb əxt̪ər] ⓘ; born 13 August 1975) is a Pakistani former international cricketer and commentator.Nicknamed the "Rawalpindi Express", [3] he is the fastest bowler in cricketing history, with an unbeaten 161.3 kmph (100.23 mph) delivery. [4]
Srinath was the second Indian bowler (after Kapil Dev) to take 200 wickets in Test cricket, with 236. Although some critics said that Srinath's average and strike rate suffered as a result of bowling to India's predominantly dry, spin-friendly wickets, his average at home was superior to his average abroad since he could reverse-swing the ball ...
Nahid Rana (born 2 October 2002) is a Bangladeshi cricketer, who is a right-arm fast bowler.He plays for the Rajshahi Division cricket team in domestic cricket. [3] Nahid Rana holds the record of the fastest ball bowled(152.0kph) by a Bangladeshi Bowler in international cricket.
Taskin is currently the fastest bowler in the history of Bangladesh cricket. During the 2022 T-20 World Cup, Taskin bowled a 149.56km/h delivery to De Cock , [ 25 ] where Mashrafe Mortaza, previous fastest, has clocked 148 km/h during a Test against New Zealand at Hamilton in 2001 .