Lillee & Thomson bowling speeds

Bowling speeds for Dennis Lillee & Jeff Thomson as well as Andy Roberts & Michael Holding were measured by the university of Western Australia in 1975.First for Lillee in controlled trials as part of his recovery from injury then during the waca test in 1975 v West Indies Lillee ,Thomson,Holding & Roberts' bowling speeds were measured'out in the middle'during play. Here the scientists etc involved discuss the events.Also covered is the 1979 fast bowling contest invoving the above bowlers & others.

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Sports

Tags:

• cricket
• fast
• bowling
• Jeff
• Thomson
• Dennis
• Lillee
• Michael
• Holding
• Andy
• Roberts.

[vijayp63]

Unarguably, " the fastest vegetarian bower " on earth was Venkatesh Prasad !

[enkay78]

remember those days they were timed at the batsmen and not at the point of release as it is for lee n akthar. on an avg the ball loses arnd 15kmph thro drag in the air n wicket. so we know now how quick these blokes really were.... amazing stuff!!!!

[MrECC83]

@qaz00 Yea where is the proof of this? Where did you get this information from? Please provide a PROPER source, that's scientific like the information in this video, it's got actual scientists. Please no this one said this and this one said that bullshit from some article.

[MrECC83]

@enkay78 Can't really find any specific detailed information on that, please post a proper reference to that.

[qaz00]

you need to add 10% from the actual speed as today's speed machine has different formula.

now therefore we need to believe that Thomson was actually bowling 110 mile per hour! Never mess with these guys!

[SPOOKSTR]

3:25 ....i watched that competition on telly back in the day.

[only4anindya]

@All: Can anyone provide these infos:

1) How the modern speed guns measure pace?

2) How the so called radar speed guns measure pace?

3) What was the number of images taken by "high speed camera" ?

please don't give any link of blog, please provide the name of any peer reviewed journal that talk about these, or instrument manual..or tell "go and do research"..it seems people did lot of research here already :)

[bowler45]

@vijayp63 dude grow the F up, vegetarian or not he was a hell of a bowler. He wasnt picked for his pace, but rather for his ability to move and cut the ball both ways. On his good days he made the best batsmen in the world dance around. And FYI if ur under the impression that eating meat makes u a faster bowler, then u don't know first thing abt bowling. Too much muscle can def hinder you frm bowling fast. And this is coming frm a guy who eats meat 6 times a day and body builds.

[detroit4lyf]

0:35 is a no ball! :p

[sadilmu]

@stratocaster1986able ahahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaa trueeee ahahahaah

[rash9876]

@vijayp63 You should read about Javagal Srinath. One ball that he bowled during the 1996 tour of South Africa measured 156 km/h (97 mph). He also clocked 154.5 km/h (96.0 mph) at the 1999 World Cup.

[Charyaa]

@vijayp63 25 mph