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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]
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 ]
India's Anil Kumble has the second-best bowling figures in an innings (10 wickets for 74 runs against Pakistan in 1999); they are the second-best in the history of Test cricket after English off-spin bowler Jim Laker's 10 for 53 (against Australia in 1956).
He ranks only behind the Pakistani bowler Shoaib Akhtar (161.3 km/h, 100.2 mph) who is ranked as the fastest bowler of all time. [59] The strain of consistently bowling at 150 km/h (93 mph) caused a string of stress fractures and recurring injuries and forced him to alter his strategy, which he amassed effectively. [ 60 ]
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.
Sir Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose KCN (born 21 September 1963) is an Antiguan former cricketer who played 98 Test matches for the West Indies.Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, he took 405 Test wickets at an average of 20.99 and topped the ICC Player Rankings for much of his career to be rated the best bowler in the world.
He is considered one of the fastest bowlers of all time. Tait retired from Test cricket in 2009, [4] and later from One Day Internationals in March 2011, [5] to concentrate on playing T20 cricket. In March 2017, Tait announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. [6]
Waqar Younis's 13 five-wicket hauls remain the most by any bowler. [2] Shakib Al Hasan is the only active player who is having 300 wickets in ODI. [9] Among the bowlers who have taken over 300 wickets in ODIs, Sanath Jayasuriya is the only cricketer who has also joined 10,000 runs club in ODI cricket. [10]