Excellent quality question there Outlaw! Kind of the same type of quality question I would have posted mate ....
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Well mate,seeings you seem to havestumped the forum with that question, I thought I'd bring my cricket knowledge to the rescue and answer it, before this greatthread drops any further down the main page. Wouldn't wanna see that mate.
Here's the answer:
Shoaib Akhtar's achievement was cast into doubt because the broadcaster's speed gun, developed by Electronic Development House of South Africa, was out of order at the time. The 100mph-plus delivery was measured on a device supplied by a Lahore Hi-Tech company, Cybernet in the last minute.Electronic Development House speed guns were the prefered choice of the broadcasting network
and theICC for their (apparent)reliablity and accuracy, therefore, because of its unavailability at the time of Akhtar's delivery, the record was never oficially recognized by the ICC and many other world cricketing organizations.
{A little bit more interesting stuff):
The top speeds in recent times, including numerous records set by ShoaibAkhtar, have all been recorded on a system developed by Electronic Development Houseof South Africa. The fastest delivery recorded on the system used in Australia, developed by IDS, was 155.7kmh bowled by Akhtar against India two years ago.
Wicketkeepers are arguably the best-positioned players to measure the speeds of deliveries. Despite Akhtar's claims, fast bowlers are arguably the worst.
When a team of sport scientists set up high-speed cameras to record bowling speeds during a Test match between Australia and the West Indies in 1975, Dennis Lillee told the scientists he would signal them when he was about to bowl his fastest delivery of the over.
After a couple of warm-up overs, he waved furiously to the scientists that he was about to unleash his quickest ball. But when they compiled the results, surprisingly to
some,it was Lillee's slowest delivery of the over.
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I'll wait for your confirmation before proceeding with my turn mate.
BTW mate: You're my favourite poster here ...
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Over to you, you champion!
