Almost 50 years ago, cricket’s Jeff Thomson and baseball’s Nolan Ryan hurled a ball frighteningly fast. Five decades later, no baseball pitcher has thrown, nor a cricketer bowled, much faster, begging the question: why can’t a ball be propelled faster ...
Almost 50 years ago, cricket’s Jeff Thomson and baseball’s Nolan Ryan hurled a ball frighteningly fast. Quicker than anyone recorded before them.
Thomson’s quickest recorded delivery from 1975 places him, decades later, within one km/h of Pakistan’s Shoaib Akhtar , and Australian pair Brett Lee and Shaun Tait . Experts say given the margin of error of the various forms of speed measurement, these top four are effectively equal fastest. On that measure, four bowlers stand out according to a panel of elite batters, captains and wicketkeepers from India, England, Australia and the West Indies spanning the playing period 1929-2012: Thomson, West Indies pair Michael Holding and Patrick Patterson, and Tyson himself.
Elliott says speed guns, positioned on the boundary sightscreen, picked up the velocity of the ball anywhere on its journey down the wicket, as it lost speed on its way to the batter. Does the variation of less than 1km/h between the top four fastest recorded bowlers – Akhtar, Lee, Tait and Thomson – give them equal claim to be the fastest, while also reinforcing there has been no increase in top speed in 50 years?Nolan Ryan managed to keep playing in the Major Leagues until the age of 46. He threw his fastest pitch at the age of 27, prior to stepping up his strength and fitness discipline. His final fastball was recorded at 158km/h – only 10 per cent slower than his record.
“We have excellent strength and conditioning programs to make the muscles stronger,” Fleisig said. “But you really can’t make your ligaments and tendons stronger. It has to do with biologically how they are. “And from the cadaver research, we could tell that the ligament breaks at about 35 newton metres,” he said.
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