7 fastest deliveries bowled by Indian pace bowlers
Cricket is a game of skill and technique and fast bowling is one of the biggest endurance tests for any cricketer who wants to become a fast bowler. Over the years there have been many who could bowl fast the likes of Shoaib Akhtar, Brett Lee, Shane Bond, Jeff Thomson, Dennis Lillee, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis or the West Indian pace quartet come to mind. India was never known as the land of fast bowlers but the emergence of Kapil Dev saw the trend change and over the last decade India has produced some of the fastest bowlers to be playing in world cricket right now. Here we look at seven occasions Indian bowlers bowled as quick as a wind in international cricket.
Varun Aaron – 152 KPH versus Sri Lanka – ODI -2014
Varun Aaron is possibly one of the fastest Indian bowlers of this generation; he has been plagued with injury issues or bad form which has seen him be omitted from the Indian team. When fit he could bowl as quick as anyone and delivered a ball at 152 KPH in an ODI game versus Sri Lanka in the year 2014.
Ishant Sharma – 152.6 KPH versus Australia –ODI 2008
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The CB series in 2008 saw the emergence of a lanky tall fast bowler called Ishant Sharma who could bowl with good pace and bounce. During a game against Australia at Melbourne he set the world alight by delivering the ball at 152.6 KPH to be labeled as the next big thing.
Umesh Yadav – 152.8 KPH versus Sri Lanka –ODI 2012
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The Hobart ODI between India and Sri Lanka assumed epic proportions when the Indian team had to win within 40 overs to stay alive in the competition. The match saw the emergence of Virat Kohli who scored a breezy 133 but the game is also famous for Umesh Yadav thudding a 152.8 KPH delivery to Dilshan during the Sri Lanka innings.
Navdeep Saini – 152.8 KPH – IPL 2019
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The tall and lanky fast bowler from Delhi made the heads turn during the 2019 IPL when he delivered a ball at 152.8 KPH, Saini who bowled like a wind the whole of IPL 2019 soon was spoken about as the fastest Indian bowler to be playing currently.
Mohammad Shami- 153.2 KPH – versus Australia – test match 2014
The Indian tour of Australia in 2014/15 saw the emergence of Mohammad Shami as yet another pace bowler who could hit the 150 mark. The then 24 year old from Bengal bent his back to deliver this thunderbolt during the third test match of the 2014 series at the famed MCG.
Jasprit Bumrah -153.3 KPH- versus Australia –test match 2018
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Jasprit Bumrah has taken to test cricket like a duck to water and during the famous Australian tour in 2018/19 he happened to deliver one of the fastest deliveries by an Indian in recent times which was timed at 153.3 KPH during the first test at Adelaide oval.
Javagal Srinath – 157 KPH- 1996 tour of South Africa
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The name of Javagal Srinath doesn’t get the due credit when speaking about fast bowlers, but many have confirmed the fact that on his day Srinath was the quickest in the world sometimes bowling even quicker than the likes of Allan Donald, Glenn McGrath and many more. During the 1996/97 tour of south Africa , the tall pace bowler from Karnataka delivered the ball at 157 KPH in what was seen as the fastest ever ball bowled by an India bowler.