Chris Woakes of Warwickshire

Excuse me whilst I do 'a mudge'

First saw him in the U19's last year when he looked a mid 70's trundler - then saw him in a televised T20 game this year and he is up to 82-3mph

Nice run up and action - will get faster too.

Good prospect - keep an eye out for the lad...

He's no Stuart Meaker.

Holcs confirmed the other day that he is indeed very fast, despite being a trundler in under 19's.

Both were trundlers when I saw them.

Impressed me as much as one of those microwave Doner Kebabs.

Aye. Heard from some of the Surrey boys that he WAS clocked at 96 in the indoor school at Loughborough....... Quickest clocked of anyone ever to have trained down there.

They have also said that he is actually rapid as well. And they are more sceptical than me.

Apparently he is built like Bing, 5'10" but with a good action and has just got alot stronger!!

We shall wait and see, although Dernback who I always thought was a trundler is bing clocked in the high 80's so shoite knows how quick Meaker is these days. He plays in our league, but not heard any reports bar the one about how quick he really has been bowling!

Bet he's done a Shoaib/Asif.

Brass Monkey wrote:Bet he's done a Shoaib/Asif.

Not likely, even at Slurrey to be fair!

holcs wrote:Aye. Heard from some of the Surrey boys that he WAS clocked at 96 in the indoor school at Loughborough....... Quickest clocked of anyone ever to have trained down there.

They have also said that he is actually rapid as well. And they are more sceptical than me.

I still don't buy all this bollocks really. How can you put on 20mph in a year?

**cough** He's a poor little village boy who didn't know about these things called steroids **cough**

Brass Monkey wrote:**cough** He's a poor little village boy who didn't know about these things called steroids **cough**

highlights of Meakers first class debut - he's the one bowling when the camera is behind the batsman
http://www.surreycricket.tv/page/ArchivedFootage/0,,12546~1291288,00.html

Still looks medium dross to me... s'all urban legend BS this 95mph lark

JKLever wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:**cough** He's a poor little village boy who didn't know about these things called steroids **cough**

highlights of Meakers first class debut - he's the one bowling when the camera is behind the batsman
http://www.surreycricket.tv/page/ArchivedFootage/0,,12546~1291288,00.html

Still looks medium dross to me... s'all urban legend BS this 95mph lark

Perhaps. But if someone who sees them day in day out says he's quicker than a bloke clocked in the high 80's whats one to believe?

holcs wrote:Perhaps. But if someone who sees them day in day out says he's quicker than a bloke clocked in the high 80's whats one to believe?

I like to believe my eyes. If he can do it in the nets, maybe not hitting the cutting strip, but not out in the middle, on TV then he's no better than a bowling Ian Bell.

You know what cricketers are like though.

SiJo used to big up how fast he was bowling all the time...

Brass Monkey wrote:

holcs wrote:Perhaps. But if someone who sees them day in day out says he's quicker than a bloke clocked in the high 80's whats one to believe?

I like to believe my eyes. If he can do it in the nets, maybe not hitting the cutting strip, but not out in the middle, on TV then he's no better than a bowling Ian Bell.

Oh I totally agree. Until I see him I won't totally believe it. But just passing on some facts and hearsay is all.

VRV Singh was going to be a 95+ bowler when no-one had hear of him too, wasn't he?

It's probably a conspiracy.

Seems to have a nice simple action, does Meaker. Kinda reminds me a bit of Lance Klusener in the mid to late 90's when he was actually pretty rapid.

Embee's friend Kelly would probably call this bloke Wishy Croaks.

Or on S/L Wissy Croaks.

Is he as good as Paul Smith was?

Apart from the lack of mullet & substance abuse, identical...

JKLever wrote:Apart from the lack of mullet & substance abuse, identical...

The magical combination of a perfect bowling action and a total inability to take wickets.

JKLever wrote:

holcs wrote:Aye. Heard from some of the Surrey boys that he WAS clocked at 96 in the indoor school at Loughborough....... Quickest clocked of anyone ever to have trained down there.

They have also said that he is actually rapid as well. And they are more sceptical than me.

I still don't buy all this bollocks really. How can you put on 20mph in a year?

Start bowling downhill?

JKL, and some other opinions, twelve years ago.

Was a good call by JKL.

Better than Trev's 5 years later, when he had him bracketed with Kerrigan.

Well, he debuted in the same match as Kerrigan, and for a while it looked like they would be forever bracketed together as a cautionary tale about playing your backups in a dead rubber, even if he was nowhere near as bad as Kerrigan in that match.