Top 5 Current Bowlers Who Can Break Shoaib Akhtar's Record Of The Fastest Delivery

Top 5 Current Bowlers Who Can Break Shoaib Akhtar’s Record Of The Fastest Delivery. Fast bowling is not just about taking long laps and rolling the arms deftly with a precise line and length, but it includes a lot of strength and agility.

It takes a heavy workload for a pace bowler to hit the surface and toil with blood and sweat to get the results. For a pace bowler to prolong his career, he has to be vigilant of his strength and conditioning to avoid injuries.

Former Australian bowler Glenn McGrath is very well known to exert pressure on the batters with his supreme pace, shrewd bouncers and biomechanically efficient bowling.

A bowler who can bowl anything above 140 kilometres per hour speed is reckoned to be a great fast bowler.

Former Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar, who is called the ‘Rawalpindi Express’ for his explorable speed, had clocked 161.3 kph against England during a 2003 World Cup fixture.

In the modern-day game where the batters come hard against the bowlers, there are very rare genuine quicks who can torment the batters with their speed. But there are a few bowlers who have the calibre to breach Akhtar’s speed record.

Let us look at five pace bowlers who can shatter the 161.3kph barometer.

Top 5 Current Bowlers Who Can Break Shoaib Akhtar’s Record Of The Fastest Delivery

5)Pat Cummins

The Australian Test captain has plenty of variations in his bag and can trouble the batters with his fiery pace deliveries.

After being appointed as Australia’s Test skipper, Cummins bowled the fastest ball of the first Test at the Gabba, recorded at 153.78 kph (95.55 mph).

4) Jofra Archer

The England speedster, who is profoundly known to predict future events through his tweets, has dismantled the batters with his nasty bouncers (ask Steve Smith).

The year 2019 was very special for the Barbados-born pacer as he made his debut for England and helped them to win the World Cup.

Bowling to his England skipper Eoin Morgan in an IPL match in 2020, Archer clocked 152.1 kph and bowled another one at 150.

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3) Mitchell Starc

Starc has built the impression of bowling toe-crushing yorkers to uproot the stumps of the batters. He started the 2020-21 Ashes by cleaning the stump of England opener Rory Burns behind his legs with a swinger.

The Australian pacer holds the fastest delivery amongst the active international bowlers. He measured a 160.4 kph bowl against Ross Taylor during a Test match between Australia and New Zealand in 2015.

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2) Anrich Nortje

The South African pacer has bowled eight of the ten fastest balls in the Indian Premier League 2021 after he joined Delhi Capitals in 2020.

In his very first over of the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, he breached the 150-mark twice.

In IPL 2020, he clocked 156kph to record the fastest delivery in the history of IPL and is keen on breaking Akhtar’s record, something he admitted to Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on the latter’s YouTube channel.

1) Umran Malik

The young and emerging pace sensation from Srinagar has recorded the fastest delivery bowled by an Indian bowler in IPL after clocking 152.95kph playing in his second game.

Malik crossed the 150-mark multiple times in the three games he played for Sunrisers Hyderabad even though he just picked a couple of wickets. The Hyderabad franchise has shown faith in him and has retained him for IPL 2022.