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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]
Malcolm Denzil Marshall (18 April 1958 – 4 November 1999) was a Barbadian cricketer.Primarily a fast bowler, Marshall is widely regarded as one of the greatest and one of the most accomplished fast bowlers of the modern era in Test cricket.
[7] [8] [9] Dubbed "The Wild Thing", during his career Tait was considered one of the fastest bowlers in the world, [10] [11] regularly bowling at speeds up to 155 km/h. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] During a Twenty20 international match in February 2010 Tait bowled a ball measured at 160.7 km/h, the fastest ball ever recorded in Australia.
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 ]
The 18-year-old future Test batsman Denis Compton, in his second county match for Middlesex, faced Larwood in June 1936; he later recorded that Larwood and Voce were the most accurate fast bowlers he ever faced, and that Larwood was the fastest. [123] The benefit season yielded the then county record sum of £2,098. [124]
He is able to bowl at speeds in excess of 90 mph, his fastest being 157.3 km/h (97.7 mph). Known for his searing pace and lethal bouncers, he is one of the world's fastest bowlers to have ever played the game. [1] [2] He was a part of the New Zealand squad to finish as runners-up at the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
His fast bowling gave him the nickname "Typhoon Tyson", and despite his short career he achieved status as the fastest England bowler in living memory. Don Bradman called him "the fastest bowler I have ever seen" [2] and Richie Benaud agreed, writing "For a short time, Frank Tyson blasted all-comers". [3]
Brett Lee (born 8 November 1976) is an Australian former international cricketer, who played all three formats of the game.During his international career, Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in the world.