Very quick question

Arafat and Rao look like medium pacers and hardly ever trouble the batsmen with their pace YET i saw quite a few balls from yasir being clocked at well over 140(around 142-143) and 1 or 2 balls from Rao were also clocked around 141 or 142.


ON THE OTHER hand(literally in this case) Aamer looks a lot faster and has been troubling the batsmen with his extra pace YET he was being clocked at around 140

so whats going on?

Speed isn't everything.

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JKLever wrote:Speed isn't everything.

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yeah but its quite strange how the speed gun is playing tricks on us.

thats why i go by what i see and NOT by whats on the speed gun, Aamer looks very quick while the other 2 don't seem that fast


PERHAPS its the bounce issue because i think Aamer is a lot taller and has a higher action than Arafat

May be a question of length. Fuller balls appear to read higher on the speed gun than shorter balls ie all the really quick readings seem to be from yorkers

yeah...

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The speed gun picks up the speed of the ball in the horizontal plane from the bowler's hand towards the gun. When the bowler goes for a short-pitched delivery, the angle of release of the ball is more downward than that of a fuller-length delivery, so while the shorter-pitched delivery may leave the hand faster than the fuller-length ball, part (much) of that velocity is directed downwards, resulting in a lower speed reading in the horizontal plane.

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