Other than few bowlers, no fast bowlers are left.
@sathviksouvik (23263)
June 1, 2016 11:41pm CST
There was a time in the early 1980s, Thomson bowled at 100 miles per hour. Lillie, Holding, Andy Roberts, Sir Richard Hadlee, Imran Khan and others clocked almost the same speed. One of the reasons of the success of the fast bowlers was less amount of tests being played.
Presently other than Anderson, Steyn, Mohammad Amir, no fast bowlers are left. They are expected to play 100 T20s in a year, 40 one dayers and 15 tests. So they start with 95 miles per hour and after 1 year bowl at 80 miles per hour. They end up being medium pacer.
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@vijay_2016 (900)
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2 Jun 16
Due to batting friendly conditions captains are emphasised on accuracy than speed of the bowler. And injuries are always there for very fast bowlers. Batsmen are also getting used to very fast bowlers..it is swing and variation that is troubling them. There should be specialists bowlers for each format so that they are fresh for each of the tournament.
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@sathviksouvik (23263)
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2 Jun 16
Thanks Vijayji, the problem is that IPL cricket has increased mediocrity. On bogus pitches Morne Morkel is blasted by a slogger like Bipul Sharma. Previously it used to be a battle between classic batsman and furious fast bowler, for example Sunil Gavaskar versus Malcolm Marshall, or Mohinder Amarnath versus Michael Holding, or Viv Richards versus Denis Lillie. The charm is gone.
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@vijay_2016 (900)
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2 Jun 16
@sathviksouvik agreed there some pitches in Australia and South Africa that offer support to bowlers making test match interesting.
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@sathviksouvik (23263)
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2 Jun 16
@vijay_2016 Even in the teams there is a class of fast bowlers. For example in England Anderson and Broad are the best fast bowlers. In India, Mohammad Shami, Umesh Yadav and Ishant Sharma are good. Fact is that there are so many matches played around the year, every country is preparing 4 to 5 teams for tests, one days and T20s. Fast bowlers get back pains and are thrown out of the tournaments for 7 to 8 months.
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