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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: lewis_faulds on January 23, 2014, 02:33:07 PM
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As the title suggests.. Who is the fastest bowler you've ever faced?
For me it's probably either some Saffer pro or former Scottish captain Craig Wright!
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Ryan Harris or Ian butler
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Mohammed Akram - ex Pakistan/Surrey, he was rapid and didnt mind letting you have a short one....
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So far the best was a lad from Sri Lanka who had a year at our uni team, decent pace to him! Clocked at 82mph on the bowling machine on his 'short' run up
This season I could potentially be facing either Tymal Mills or Adam Milne (or both)... safe to say it could be an interesting few innings!
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mohamed zahid.. quickest ive faced by a mile.. bloke had serious wheels after being put out the ground first ball.. not what i wanted to face as a 14 year old
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There was a 16 year old (now lardy and slow) who was apparently clocked by Cambridge CC at 70mph, only thing is in the nets he just bowled short...so never bothered trying to hit it!!
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Neil Saker of a 6 pace run up in the Club 6 a side. Either that or a couple of chaps at my old club, Cheam
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there was one match in which i was slightly scared for my life, bowling attack was ....
R Rampaul
K Roach
J Taylor
F Edwards
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I faced dean headley a few years back and he was sharp but when I was a under15 I opened the batting and faced David marsters and he was horrid to face as he didn't have the control then and you never knew what was coming next got hit with a Beamer on the thigh pad hated every minute off it even the nick though slips for four :)
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Henry Osinde is the fastest I have ever faced, pace and bounce...
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Chris Soulman off here - he looks terrifying off his short run.
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My Brother in the back garden off 18 yards, Tony Murphy (Surrey), Wayne Kidwell (SA first class), Glen Chappell at county age group level, Paul Rochier - England Amateur (The best pace bowler I've faced in league cricket). Luckily I missed Ian Bishop in league matches (weather) and Dilhara Fernando on tour in Sri lanka (injury)!
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There is a fella that plays for New Calypsonian's who play in near Enfield in London on a very suspect deck. I wouldn't have a clue exactly how fast he bowls when he feels like bowling quick but his pace plus the deck make it absolutely terrifying.
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Jade Dernbach in the nets
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This is going to sound very strange but Luke Wright.
Not only did he consistently bowl 85mph in his early/mid 20s, he is erratic and SHORT! His bouncers were seriously nasty... If you aren't an international batsman anyway!
A close second would be Charl Willoughby - who would just aim for your ribs for 5 balls then knock you over with an inswinging yorker!
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Chris Cairns and Courtney Walsh are the fastest two that I've faced.
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the new calypsonians bowler is Fabian Farley, ex middlesex colt
he cleans up in the middlesex championship regularly
he's rapid,faced him a few times
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Bloke called Paul Taylor, left arm,no run up as such, on concrete midweek wickets with a cork matting
He was a school teacher,,nice as pie, until he got on a cricket pitch,then he just wanted to kill you!
Scary as a 15yr old, he would just say to you' yeah, well done, you nearly saw that one!)
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I got smacked on the head by Keith Barker, that was fun :(
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the new calypsonians bowler is Fabian Farley, ex middlesex colt
he cleans up in the middlesex championship regularly
he's rapid,faced him a few times
Yeah Fabian is who I'm talking about. We've been playing a couple of friendlies against them every year for about 15 years. They are all top boys to boot.
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Chris Soulman off here - he looks terrifying off his short run.
In general you mean, surely? :D
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Fastest....hmmm...Kenny Benjamin and Chris Silverwood were an "interesting" opening attack on an early season deck at Castleford, and Paul Hutchison was seriously quick before injuries got the better of him, plus there was a Barbadian lad played for Bolton who was scary as all hell, especially as he looked like the Predator. Sonning have had one or two quick Aussies down the years - Cam Gannon being one - and I played against Mark Harrity a few years back who probably wasn't as quick as the first few but felt it because my reactions are not what they used to be.
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Andrew Caddick when I was about 13 was pretty quick, playing for Somerset in a Brian Rose Testimonial game. More recently, Callum Hagget and Ben Rudge from Ashcott and Shapwick!
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Played against Eldine Baptiste a long time ago; I didn't actually see the ball leave his hand; just a thud as it hit the keeper's gloves 25yds behind me! Other than that, Kevin Masters (David's Dad), when I played up at Lordswood in the very dim and distant past; he used to scare the living you-know-what out of most folks! In more recent years, there was a SA U19 lad, Warryn Hauptfleisch, who was pretty damn rapid!
With my age and accompanying reflexes, I reckon Swanny would prove a stern test speed-wise these days!
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Never faced myself so I'd have to say B. Machine..
I haven't faced anyone with serious wheels, play regularly with a mate who bowls around 70 but that's it haha.
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Shane Harwood and Dirk Nannes
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Fastest....hmmm...Kenny Benjamin and Chris Silverwood were an "interesting" opening attack on an early season deck at Castleford, and Paul Hutchison was seriously quick before injuries got the better of him, plus there was a Barbadian lad played for Bolton who was scary as all hell, especially as he looked like the Predator. Sonning have had one or two quick Aussies down the years - Cam Gannon being one - and I played against Mark Harrity a few years back who probably wasn't as quick as the first few but felt it because my reactions are not what they used to be.
Cam Gannon got 8-8 against us :(
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Shane Harwood and Dirk Nannes
I toured Blackpool a while back and they raved about Harwood. A few guys said he was the quickest they'd seen up there.
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Also played against Wayne parnell.
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Cam Gannon got 8-8 against us :(
Was this when he was at Sonning? I remember speaking to him and he said he only bowled half a dozen balls at full pace all season!
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I've no international players to add to the thread, but I do have a couple of chaps procricket would know.
Firstly was Guardsman Redford, Redders. First thing i felt was a whizz and fizz as it went past my nose.
His opening partner was another Guardsmen, over 6ft, red hair, and quick.
This was in 1992/3.
Since then nothing to scare me.
The fastest I've faced in a few years is my 18 year old. This season he's just got bigger and bigger and gained a good couple of yards over last year.
I can't wait until he's in the Army and bigger, stronger, and getting some proper coaching. Then he'll come home and probably put me in hospital (very competitive family).
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Chris Platt, colne, lancs league , 6ft 5, 20stone, 19yr old
Supposedly quickest in the league?
Broke his ankle, didn't play again for a few years, then played at Barrowford in craven league ..
Proper off the ground, still building speed pace....fun to edge for six at some grounds in that league !
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A lot of quick bowlers on here!
I've also faced former Sri Lankan player, BSR Priyadarshana he bowled 80 mph to me on a dodgy indoor wicket!
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Ian butler before his injury troubles at harborne.
lionel baker from the windies only at nets.
lesroy irish split my chin with a bouncer ( I was 16 at the time so a bit out of my depth)
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Bear in mind I'm just recently turned 15, so anything 75 mph+ is serious wheels for me.
I've faced a friend of mine (not that day) Steven Singh, who's the opening quick for Prahran's 1st XI. Regularly 130kph+, with copious accuracy.
One of Dandenong's 4th XI opening speedsters, known to me only as Jordy, came off about 6 steps, and sent down a "loosener" which crashed into the back of the net without a bounce at easily 120kph. Then I hear our 1sts coach yell out "So you ARE just as quick off 6 steps!". Then he yells "DaanalSeed, hop into this net here, mate".
Those are the quickest I've faced, although I've seen Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson bowling in nets next to me. You really can't see the ball!
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Recently a chap called Darren Bridges who was at our club for a season before he went to Durham ccc amd Durham Uni he was regularly bowling 85mph but had poor attitude, played for the top club in Kent, Hartley CC for a season then bugged off some where up North but he was very lively and very competitive.
Other one was a fella called Jo Daws from about 10 years back when I was playing kent league he was sharp and moved it. Also faced masters as he played a bit for lords wood but only faced one ball from him before his spell finished .
Finally some lads in Jamica when I played some club tour cricket when I was 16 seemed like the fatest in the world at the time.
I would rather face pace and no movement then someone 10mph slower but knew what they were doing.
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Chris Soulman off here - he looks terrifying off his short run.
Oh yes this Hobbit has some wheels when you make him angry, just ask stone C.C lol
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Fastest I faced was Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Symonds, both in the nets for the team we all played for, Mitch was super scary pretty sure I skid marks after pacing him
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I'm with colsey.. One B.Machine.. Has serious wheels, that video after mr hammer crickets one was the fastest I've been.
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Had the pleasure of facing a few rapid fire guys over the last few years, but I would say that the two fastest have to be Doug Bracewell and also Tymal Mills. Seriously fast.......
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Was this when he was at Sonning? I remember speaking to him and he said he only bowled half a dozen balls at full pace all season!
think he might have been bullshitting you! we played them pre season and, if he was bowling halfpace he'd be quicker than Dale Steyn.
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Other one was a fella called Jo Daws from about 10 years back when I was playing kent league he was sharp and moved it. Also faced masters as he played a bit for lords wood but only faced one ball from him before his spell finished .
I'm with you on that. Having played with him at Bickley Park, Joe is the quickest bowler i've faced along with Saggers when we had him assigned from the county. Played 1 game when the Kent league were experimenting with the pointless 2 day cricket. Faced both Masters.....Never really though David was that quick and his dad was a much better bowler than he was!
Chris did you ever play Bickley when they had a SA lad called Ryan Joffe? He wasn't quite as quick but bowled up the hill was tall and got some silly bounce making him seem quicker!
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Faced 6 balls from Richard Logan in a T20. Didn't even get near him.
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Chris Platt, colne, lancs league , 6ft 5, 20stone, 19yr old
Supposedly quickest in the league?
Broke his ankle, didn't play again for a few years, then played at Barrowford in craven league ..
Proper off the ground, still building speed pace....fun to edge for six at some grounds in that league !
Haha I know the bloke, played against him for Barrowford at crossflatts on whats normally a fairly low track, he got good pace and bounce out of it
Saw him trundling in, thinking he'd bowl pie's because he's a big lad (20 stone as you said)
He hit my partner at the other end twice in an over both in the ribs and left some nice bruising.
beta me for pace few overs later trapping me in front, and i felt it through my pads.
Think he still plays at Barrowford, we play them first up this season
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Forum member Tussy17 is the quickest I've faced and that was in the nets. I've kept to him a fair few times and he has serious wheels
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Got a lad in our 1st team, Joe Lovett, who has serious wheels.
Faced him in the (fast & bouncy) Rose Bowl indoor school which wasn't a plesant experience.
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Got a lad in our 1st team, Joe Lovett, who has serious wheels.
Faced him in the (fast & bouncy) Rose Bowl indoor school which wasn't a plesant experience.
Did he play for Hants Academy?
Two guys I have played with (Benny Howell and Hamza Riazuddin) mentioned him I think?
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Too many to name this guy was rapid when i played against him and a massive chucker but what a top bloke.
RARE Jermaine Lawson HAT TRICK vs Australia 3rd test 2003 youtube original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so9-Las87og#)
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it was last season when i play against king's taunton 1st team left arm over bowler who bowls around 82mph+ apparently, it seems to me he bowl a bit less than that but definitely 78+, scared me a bit haha
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Slightly suspect bowling action!ha
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Did he play for Hants Academy?
Two guys I have played with (Benny Howell and Hamza Riazuddin) mentioned him I think?
Yes he has done.
I think he played for an England side of some description too when he was younger.
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Our pro this season is a Sri Lankan bloke, Ramesh Subasinghe. He has some serious wheels, had about 8 overs to bowl at the end of the day yesterday and he let loose. Smacking the gloves with serious heat standing 25m back. Doug Hondo also plays for one of the other clubs in my region. His pace and height makes him a very tough customer to play, especially on our kiwi green seamers!
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Fastest I faced was Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Symonds, both in the nets for the team we all played for, Mitch was super scary pretty sure I skid marks after pacing him
Andrew Symonds is up there in your top 2?
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Andrew Symonds is up there in your top 2?
Back in the day he used to bowl around 130km medium pacers, then he stopped bowling, was also a hand off spinner!
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Our pro this season is a Sri Lankan bloke, Ramesh Subasinghe. He has some serious wheels, had about 8 overs to bowl at the end of the day yesterday and he let loose. Smacking the gloves with serious heat standing 25m back. Doug Hondo also plays for one of the other clubs in my region. His pace and height makes him a very tough customer to play, especially on our kiwi green seamers!
Faced Ramesh twice last season. He was the overseas for Steyning, yes he's got wheels, bounced me out in the first game. I was a lot more comfortable with him in the return game.
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Never faced anything rapid in the league. Faced 75mph on a bowling machine and wasn't too bad. Can imagine another 10mph on that being a tad tricky ha!
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Too many to name this guy was rapid when i played against him and a massive chucker but what a top bloke.
RARE Jermaine Lawson HAT TRICK vs Australia 3rd test 2003 youtube original ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so9-Las87og#[/url])
Almost baseball!
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Faced Ramesh twice last season. He was the overseas for Steyning, yes he's got wheels, bounced me out in the first game. I was a lot more comfortable with him in the return game.
Not surprised, Rammy is quite fond of the short ball!!
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Did he play for Hants Academy?
Two guys I have played with (Benny Howell and Hamza Riazuddin) mentioned him I think?
I remember watching Hamza at junior level play against my brother alot, decent player but I can't understand why he's retired from FC?
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Really really don't want to admit it, but my little lads getting a bit too quick for me now, I'm not gonna tell him this tho, , but I'm not looking forward to facing the little bugger on our astro practice wicket.
Might be time to invest in a helmet?
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Not surprised, Rammy is quite fond of the short ball!!
Yes he is isn't he, in the first game, four out of six pitched inside his half of the pitch. He bounced a couple of others out in the innings, I went in at 22 for 4. They had a guy called Owain Jones, who plays for Oxford University opening at the other end. They ripped the top order apart. Luckily, our overseas saved us from disgrace. I was out at 31 for 7 and we ended up with 177, which they got for 8. Always a close game against Steyning and they are good lads.
Quite funny how he likes the short ball, he's not the tallest! Seemed a decent guy aswell.
We got our revenge in the second game. Another close one, we won by 1 run !
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Yeah we often have trouble bowling out the tail because he can't pitch it full enough to pin the stumps!
He's a top bloke, hard competitor on the pitch, but friendly off it. How all cricketers should act.
Like all fast bowlers he does have a temper though, wouldn't want to get on his wrong side!
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Gladstone Small at Lords, never even saw the ball. The slip cordon laughed as did i (nervously).
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Johnny Maynard 'the dentist' in the nets in his pomp 20 years ago, Mohammed Akram in a match. Maynard played for our club and was scarely quick, at the time he had been recorded in the Windies Red Stripe magazine as the fastest bowler in the carribean and this was when they had Ambrose, Walsh, Patterson et al. During cup games our keeper and slips had to ask the umpires permission to stand outside the fielding circle.
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The fastest perceived pace I've ever faced was Chris Jordan when playing against Dulwich College in 2005, we were 16/17 so perhaps a bit of romanticism on my part of the fastest but it sure as hell was the fastest I'd faced then!
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im not sure who they, but i faced the notts academy a few years ago with uni and they were quick seemed even quicker as it was indoor nets
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Maynard was a legend and still comes down to play the odd cricket week game for us. We played our local rivals in a league match when he was with us, they had a quick from Barbados, apparently neither island (leewards & barbados) got on so they tried to outpace each other, neither team reached 100! It was carnage.
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Jermaine Lawson
Andrew Richardson
Franklin Rose
Rose was only going half speed in the nets.......but on the concrete it was fast enough! I was only 16 or 17 at the time so I'm sure he took it easy on me. Played against Jermaine "Lagga" Lawson and Andrew "Richie" Richardson in school cricket in Jamaica. Faced Lawson with no cup on because I had forgot my jock strap at home that day. So he did me a favour and only bowled balls aimed to take my head off lol. Richie has a natural out swing with a nice smooth action. He's a bit of a hot head though and really doesn't appreciate being pulled by opening batsmen which I found out to my peril.
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I faced fidel edwards' cousin in barbados, bowling down the hill with the wind, clocked 88.7 mph, it was very sharp and my opening partner garnered some very brown trousers and a cracked lid for his troubles.
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jade dernbach, we knew he was playing so practiced with the bowling machine cranked up and people bowling of 18 yards. i still didnt see the first over, i thought at the time he was purposly not aiming at the stumps but having since seen him play for england i can conclude he cant hit them anyway
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This is brilliant
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a pal of mine called Jack Hartley who bowls at 80+ is the quickest i've faced. we were playing for the same club in south africa and on a quick, bouncy deck he scared me!
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a pal of mine called Jack Hartley who bowls at 80+ is the quickest i've faced. we were playing for the same club in south africa and on a quick, bouncy deck he scared me!
Did you keep to him mate? If so how was it?
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http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/52501.html (http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/52501.html)
John Maynard was a bowler who epitomised the era of out-and-out Caribbean pace, genuinely fast and aggressive. "If you can't get them out, you gotta hurt them till they get out," he once said. "I think I've pretty much broken every part of the body so far, from the teeth to the jaw, to the nose, to the ribs, to the arms and the toes. I never worry about hurting them at the time." :o
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Cordy - i don't think i ever kept to him actually, i didn't keep much when i was out there. kept to David Harrison once last season though, was on a right pudding of a deck and it carried to my ankles!
The person who made me sh*t my pants most tho was my cousin - current county pro. he's 6'4 and bowls about 81mph, so when he drops a bumper in you know it's gonna hit you in the bonce ;)
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Cordy - i don't think i ever kept to him actually, i didn't keep much when i was out there. kept to David Harrison once last season though, was on a right pudding of a deck and it carried to my ankles!
The person who made me sh*t my pants most tho was my cousin - current county pro. he's 6'4 and bowls about 81mph, so when he drops a bumper in you know it's gonna hit you in the bonce ;)
Nothing like a bit of friendly family rivalry! Never faced anyone of that kind of pace at my lowly level and quite happy for that to continue :) Would be interesting to keep to it though I think
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[url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/52501.html[/url] ([url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/52501.html[/url])
John Maynard was a bowler who epitomised the era of out-and-out Caribbean pace, genuinely fast and aggressive. "If you can't get them out, you gotta hurt them till they get out," he once said. "I think I've pretty much broken every part of the body so far, from the teeth to the jaw, to the nose, to the ribs, to the arms and the toes. I never worry about hurting them at the time." :o
That's gold!!
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That Maynard fella sounds like an absolute nightmare to bat against....talking how funny it was to see a batsman's teeth go flying everywhere. The dentist indeed.
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That's gold!!
Agreed, he was sharp, too sharp for our league then. Remember facing Mo Akram and he was lively on our deck 1st game of the season.
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This is going to sound very strange but Luke Wright.
Not only did he consistently bowl 85mph in his early/mid 20s, he is erratic and SHORT! His bouncers were seriously nasty... If you aren't an international batsman anyway!
A close second would be Charl Willoughby - who would just aim for your ribs for 5 balls then knock you over with an inswinging yorker!
Played against charl when he was at Basingstoke. First over went wide wide wide wide wide wicket. He wasnt slow either and was bowling banana's.
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Jamie Overton last year, few bumpers weren't enjoyable!
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Jamie Overton last year, few bumpers weren't enjoyable!
I'd probably go with Callum Stewart who is low-mid 80's. Just signed for Sommerset and I've been netting with him all winter and once a week currently.
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Shoaib Akhtar around 13 years ago.
I guided (nicked!) a few through the slips before he cleaned me up with a slower ball - I was groping at thin air well before it went through my gate.
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Shoaib Akhtar around 13 years ago.
I guided (nicked!) a few through the slips before he cleaned me up with a slower ball - I was groping at thin air well before it went through my gate.
I think this one takes the cake!
Proper legend of Pakistani cricket I think, no one else was quite like him.
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Played against charl when he was at Basingstoke. First over went wide wide wide wide wide wicket. He wasnt slow either and was bowling banana's.
Charl Willoughby is the reason I started wearing a chest/rib guard.
One day we played them, he wasn't interested in knocking over the stumps. Hit me in the ribs 3 balls out of six, I hit two for four hooking then the final ball he lidded me.
Some other very rapid bowlers I've faced in the Thames Valley;
Gavin Tonge (West Indies who DIDN'T know the meaning of Sunday cricket...)
Jon Moss (Ex Australia, Victoria and Derbyshire all-rounder)
Cameron Gannon (Queensland and Brisbane Heat)
Most of the Hampshire bowling attack! (Griffiths, Balcombe, Tomlinson, Wood)
Hamza Riazuddin (Ex-England U19 captain)
Tom Jewell (Surrey 2nd XI Captain)
Vineet Sinha (Ex-Mumbai Indians and was playing Div.4 of the TVCL!!)
No real out and out internationals but when fast bowlers have something to prove... they tend to try a hell of a lot harder!
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I think this one takes the cake!
Proper legend of Pakistani cricket I think, no one else was quite like him.
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Warts and all...
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Warts and all...
True that. Still, no other player was quite the same, he was a breath of fresh air.
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Some other very rapid bowlers I've faced in the Thames Valley;
Gavin Tonge (West Indies who DIDN'T know the meaning of Sunday cricket...)
Jon Moss (Ex Australia, Victoria and Derbyshire all-rounder)
Cameron Gannon (Queensland and Brisbane Heat)
Most of the Hampshire bowling attack! (Griffiths, Balcombe, Tomlinson, Wood)
Hamza Riazuddin (Ex-England U19 captain)
Tom Jewell (Surrey 2nd XI Captain)
Vineet Sinha (Ex-Mumbai Indians and was playing Div.4 of the TVCL!!)
No real out and out internationals but when fast bowlers have something to prove... they tend to try a hell of a lot harder!
Its worth pointing out of the above list that Cam Gannon played for Sonning in D4 as well!
Few others spring to mind - Jake Ball (now at Nottinghamshire) played for Wokingham and made the tailenders hop around (you could put this in the something to prove category - his first spell took a beating and he took it out on the less able). Going back about eleven years Stoke Green had a Pakistani lad who'd played a few tests who was rapid, and a couple of years earlier still Danny Morrison scared people witless playing for Harefield.
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I assumed I was the fastest you'd faced Manormanic!
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I assumed I was the fastest you'd faced Manormanic!
actually, as point of fact I don't think I've ever actually faced you mate!
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Its worth pointing out of the above list that Cam Gannon played for Sonning in D4 as well!
Few others spring to mind - Jake Ball (now at Nottinghamshire) played for Wokingham and made the tailenders hop around (you could put this in the something to prove category - his first spell took a beating and he took it out on the less able). Going back about eleven years Stoke Green had a Pakistani lad who'd played a few tests who was rapid, and a couple of years earlier still Danny Morrison scared people witless playing for Harefield.
They have gone and got some former Sri Lankan U19 all-rounder (Shameera Weerasinghe) - Standard Stroke Green. They do get some serious overseas when they have them.
Jake is at Notts? Wow. I really do not keep up with local cricket as much as I should. Yeah he was quick for a youngster. I'm also pretty sure he is Charlie French's nephew too?
I remember being injured and traveling down for Finch V Slough in 2007 to watch Nantie Hayward. Quickest bowler, with the shortest fuse, I have EVER seen. He must have clocked a few at 90mph. One went off the pitch for a one-bounce 4...
Gavin Tonge was playing for Finch though... Think there was a "You hurt one of ours, I'll hurt one of yours" atmosphere...!
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actually, as point of fact I don't think I've ever actually faced you mate!
You have... it was so wide it found its way into your hands at slip
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You have... it was so wide it found its way into your hands at slip
I caught something? Sure I'd have remember that! ;)
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An indian dude named varun khullar. Was an overseas player in our league last year.
He also won skys "shot at the pros". Not sure whats happened to him since, as there was rumours of visa issue when yorkshire actually tried to sign him.
Heres a random vid i found on youtube.
varun khullar on fire: http://youtu.be/GtgqufEnkYA (http://youtu.be/GtgqufEnkYA)
Not sure i ever saw him pitch a ball up in our league. He just tried to bounce everyone.
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Played West Indian cavs from Nottingham on the weekend. They had a young a South African that has apparently been clocked at 88mph.
Ended up with a small piece of memorabilia from the day..
(http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac333/geeders/PicsArt_1408365705705_zps6qcppulg.jpg) (http://s913.photobucket.com/user/geeders/media/PicsArt_1408365705705_zps6qcppulg.jpg.html)
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I faced Mark Gillespie on a fast bouncy one at the Bank sports club in my first season for the first team...
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37111.html (http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37111.html)
Obviously he wasn't good enough to get me out - but he was rapid. His first ball to me was a bouncer that went for a one bounce 4 byes over my head. The keeper was closer to the sight screen than the pitch.
the guy at the other end cleaned me up due to his lack of pace in comparison...!!!
here are a couple of examples from a few years later (when he was down on pace...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qwYly6hEQM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qwYly6hEQM)
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHwijyjC_IE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHwijyjC_IE)
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Played West Indian cavs from Nottingham on the weekend. They had a young a South African that has apparently been clocked at 88mph.
Ended up with a small piece of memorabilia from the day..
([url]http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac333/geeders/PicsArt_1408365705705_zps6qcppulg.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://s913.photobucket.com/user/geeders/media/PicsArt_1408365705705_zps6qcppulg.jpg.html[/url])
Ouch!
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I faced Mark Gillespie on a fast bouncy one at the Bank sports club in my first season for the first team...
[url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37111.html[/url] ([url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37111.html[/url])
Obviously he wasn't good enough to get me out - but he was rapid. His first ball to me was a bouncer that went for a one bounce 4 byes over my head. The keeper was closer to the sight screen than the pitch.
the guy at the other end cleaned me up due to his lack of pace in comparison...!!!
here are a couple of examples from a few years later (when he was down on pace...)
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qwYly6hEQM[/url] ([url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qwYly6hEQM[/url])
and
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHwijyjC_IE[/url] ([url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHwijyjC_IE[/url])
He played for Datchet CC in Berkshire last season. Not a bad bowler to sign.
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Played West Indian cavs from Nottingham on the weekend. They had a young a South African that has apparently been clocked at 88mph.
Ended up with a small piece of memorabilia from the day..
Chest pad time. Learnt that one against Charl Willoughby and Gavin Tonge a few years ago... Even if it spends 99% of the time in the bag, is a fantastic investment!
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We had a lad at Marlow in the mid 90's - Aubrey Martyn who they thought was quicker than Donald on the 1994 tour of England. He took 19 wickets in the last 2 league matches he played for us in 93.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/46181.html (http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/46181.html)
His other claim to fame was to fill his tour car up with petrol, when it was a diesel!
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Do you play for Marlow now Saunders?
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We had a lad at Marlow in the mid 90's - Aubrey Martyn who they thought was quicker than Donald on the 1994 tour of England. He took 19 wickets in the last 2 league matches he played for us in 93.
[url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/46181.html[/url] ([url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/46181.html[/url])
His other claim to fame was to fill his tour car up with petrol, when it was a diesel!
Remember watching our 1sts play Marlow and him playing - he was absolute lightning. Didn't you guys have Wes Morrick too?
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Mark Footitt or Mark Turner...
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Wes Morrick played a few seasons down here in Taranaki, NZ. Had a mean slower ball.
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Faced 6 balls from Richard Logan in a T20. Didn't even get near him.
Logan played in my league up to this season (apparently gone to Dubai to help set up KP's academy) and he was quick! We played at their place last year and I totally accidentally gave him a waist high full toss. I came out to bat and got 3 bumpers on the trot!
Not the quickest in the league though... Tom Barber who plays for Hampshire Academy is the quickest. Has opened the bowling for Eng U/19 and apparently has been clocked at 88 at the Ageas Bowl (although never quite sure of these camp-fire stories...)
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We played at their place last year and I totally accidentally gave him a waist high full toss. I came out to bat and got 3 bumpers on the trot!
Someone mentioned Lionel Baker... He was the same club's overseas, so they had Baker and Logan steaming in!
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Logan played in my league up to this season (apparently gone to Dubai to help set up KP's academy) and he was quick! We played at their place last year and I totally accidentally gave him a waist high full toss. I came out to bat and got 3 bumpers on the trot!
Not the quickest in the league though... Tom Barber who plays for Hampshire Academy is the quickest. Has opened the bowling for Eng U/19 and apparently has been clocked at 88 at the Ageas Bowl (although never quite sure of these camp-fire stories...)
Logan almost single-handedly won the Minor Counties Championship for Berkshire CCC last season! Very underrated player.
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I think Buzz ought to mention Harold Rhodes... ;)
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Do you play for Marlow now Saunders?
Not really. I'm an life member (I think) and run the vets team for 5 games a season. Apart from 3 years in Sussex, I played at Marlow up to 2007. Since then I've been to Yorkshire for 5 years and now in Warwickshire.
I think most of Marlow's recent overseas have been batsman or spinners. The deck at Marlow isn't as quick or bouncy as it was 20 years ago. Early 90's it was as quick as any club wicket around, not a time to meet Aubrey. I remember him taking a particular dislike to a team mate Paul Hawkins (name drop - inventor of hawkeye) in a tour match and deciding he was playing for us (I was part of the touring team playing at my home ground - yes strange). He ran in fairly quickly for the first over to the other batter but the next over was something else. Paul eventually snicked off third ball but the keeper was approx half way to the boundary, taking the ball still rising. Aubrey took his jumper at the end of the over and said "I'll have a blow" and fielded for the rest of the game.