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Andy Roberts is among the best West Indies cricketers ever. He was basically a test player in his team and had been taking seven wickets twice in the test innings. Andy made his debut in against England. He was part of the west indies team that won the world cup for both the time in and At that time, his competing in the team was very destructive for the opposition team. We cricket fans have well known him for his bouncers for a slower pace and another one for more incredible speed.

Mitchell Aron Starc is the fast left-arm bowler in overall international cricket. He was part of the Australian cricket team that won the world cup in and got awarded for his best performance. He is also the fifth-highest wicket-taker with 49 world cup wickets. Starc became the first bowler to take three-five wickets hauls and was also the leading wicket-taker in all the forms. Initially, he is from a sports background family as his brother was the Australian Olympic high jumper Brandon Starc.

With the highest bowling speed of Jeffrey Robert Thomson was one of the best bowlers of his generation, and he debuted in test cricket in against Pakistan, and his ODI debut was in against England.

He was awarded as the fastest bowler in by Australian television. Shaun William Tait is one of the greatest fastest bowlers ever. As someone else posted, not including Frank Tyson is utterly ridiculous, even though there were no radar guns in his day to measure his speed by. No less an astute commentator than Richie Benaud, who faced Tyson, claimed he was even faster than Jeff Thompson at his peak.

Go look at the still sequences of Tyson bowling and you can clearly see how much speed he must have generated - and why his body soon broke down under the stress. As for both Thompson and Lillee, two points.

Lillee was not the same fast bowler after his back issues from the early 70's, and yet was still very very sharp. Those who saw him bowl against the rest of the world side in , before he fractured his lower back, will tell you he was frighteningly fast, as his figures in Perth against a formidable batting side attest.

Go look at footage of his early run to the crease, as well as his action, and it clearly shows how fast he must have been. The speed gun test in the mid 70's measured Thompson from end to end, not out of the hand, on a dead Adelaide practice pitch, and tests have shown that the ball gets slowed up dramatically off the pitch - some have tried to recalculate the result by factoring in the pitch and have estimate he was bowling out of the hand at around mph. No less an authority than 'whispering death' himself, Michael Holding, who was no slouch in the speed stakes and played alongside the likes of Andy Roberts and Malcolm Marshall, has stated that Thompson was at least 10 miles an hour quicker than any of them.

Who better to judge than a guy who not only faced Thompson, but saw most of the great West Indian fast bowlers himself, both as team mates and as opposing bowlers in domestic cricket back in the Caribbean and on the fields of county cricket in England?

I saw Mohammad Zahid bowl kph in every domestic game on slow Pakistani pitches. Bouncers going for sixes always. Broken bats were a normal thing and stumps shattering were not unusual. Such a misleading comment by you. Watch Shoaib akhtar's bowling videos and you can see that he was by far, the fastest. Stop being a jealous ass!

Jeff Thomsons speed was measured at the batting end, whereas the rest were measured at the bowling end. There is a fall of 15 to 20 kph when the ball reaches the batting end! Am I right in assuming that it is not possible to examine old newsreel of people like Tyson and compare with current day players wrt bowling speed?

Consequently, Thompson and Starch are also mph bowlers. Rather belated, but there is a sequence of shots available that show his incredible action - the whippet-like manner in which he runs in and delivers, coupled to the enormous follow-through, clearly suggest that a great amount of speed was imparted to the ball. Such an action couldn't hold up however, and injuries soon got to him and forced him to retire in his late 20's, but for a few glorious seasons he was a frightening spectacle.

A thorough gentleman off the field who became a scholar and much loved figure in Australia in later years. Looking at old footage, I would say Joel Garner is the fastest. At 6 feet 7, imagine that ball coming down at you without wearing a helmet! WSim akram was the best bowler ever just nudging out the great Michael holing. Awesome swing with pace. Lillee was at the peak of his form before his back stress fracture. Going by my memory, Australia batted first and put up a big score.

Then Lillee smashed the ROW for something like 56; taking 8 for 28! Sir Don Bradman was there, and commented that it was the best batting he had ever seen in Australia. Lillee says in his autobiography, that in the second innings he suddenly fell ill! I can remember when Lillie and Thompson faced off against each other in a televised test of the fastest. Both were then in the Aussie team. So s. I think both were clocked at over mph.

Thompson won by a whisker for speed. Think Lillie won accuracy - less no balls and more wickets hit. Ok, it was not a match but simply a speed test of the two. Sadly I cannot recall how they measured it. Off the hand, at the wicket or average speed for the length of the pitch. I suspect it was an average speed for the 22 yards!

In which case. I think speed is overrated. The best "fast" bowlers aren't the fastest. McGrath Anderson. Most wickets counts. Shoib Akhtar was having raw pace only but he was not a complete fast bowler but though Wasim Akram was less pacy but he was much better a fast bowler than Shoib.

Muhammad Hasnain the latest sensation from Pak has bowled one at The fastest Ball Name :- Mohamed Sami Team :- Pakistan.

There is no genuine source of that claim. Obviously, other than this video. He once also bowled at but that was during an unofficial match. But, thanks for the suggestion. Keep visiting. Not as fast as the players we have mentioned above. Jeff Thomson could be the fastest bowler of all time, as in old time speed was measured at batsman end, now its measured at the time of release.

Another super quick bowler was Michael Holding. This one is not about the skill. This list is solely based on the highest speed achieved by any player - according to the speed measurement tool. There were no speed measuring tools present during the days of Sir Wesley Winfield Hall. So, we didn't get any valid source of his actual bowling speed. There is no authentic source of his speed in any international match. However, the University of Western Australia once times his speed at I once delivered a ball at This delivery was faster than any of these mentioned.

However, I did this in So the actual speed could not be officially recognized. The fastest was Fred Trueman followed by Bran Statham. The cricket world, united in grief, in turn threw its arms around Sean Abbott, the fateful bowler, to let him know that there was no blame attached to him, he was just doing his job. You know you are going to get hurt. Going to get hit. Not all batsmen felt this way.

Steve James, the former England and Glamorgan opener, acknowledged as much in an article for the Telegraph. Admission time. I was scared of fast bowling. Or to be more precise, I was scared of being hurt by fast bowling. I spent night after night worrying about it before matches I am pretty sure many other batsmen had similar feelings, but I am not sure how many would ever want to admit it.

But Smith did more than just cope. He relished it. Thrived on it even. How did he do it? For a while after that I was very apprehensive. Smith also eventually got seriously hurt, a brute of a delivery from West Indian fast bowler Ian Bishop breaking his jawbone and fracturing his left eye socket during a Test at Old Trafford in It affected him. He was put in touch with a young hypnotist by the name of Paul McKenna. Relive some of the best fast bowling the cricket world has ever seen.

Akhtar is regarded as the fastest bowler in the history of the game. He set the official world record by bowling the fastest delivery of He helped Australia win World Cups in and in His fastest delivery of Another Australian comes in at No 3.