Sometimes I am forced to rethink why do I watch cricket so closely. Forget everything. Just watch. Fast bowlers can make you cling to the chair. They are really intimidating, aren't they? I am providing you all with a number of reasons.
Let us start with the bowling run-up. It is a unique thing in cricket, which separates it from other games like baseball. In athletics, there are triple jump, hurdle race, long jump etc. but nothing matches the run-up of fast bowlers in cricket. Specially, pace bowlers have such a eye-catching run-up. For a bowler, nothing is more valuable than the final leap which he takes while delivering the ball. The batsman seems to be a slave. The bowler seems to be on the top of the universe. With different pace bowlers, the run up leaves different impressions. There are various categories of bowling run-ups too. Take wasim akram, waqar younis, shoaib akhtar: the three legends of pakistan era, all having different actions and run-ups used to vary. I used to get a high urge to bowl watching them doing the same.
Whoever says he is not frightened by enormous pace probably lies. Imagine yourself getting to play 95mph balls. Perhaps given a chance to walk into fire or playing them, you will take a long time to decide. It's just so dreadful. If there is something more beautiful and elegant than watching the stumps knocked away by pace power, I honestly don't want to know about it. They can ruffle anyone, even the best batsmen of the generation. Can Something really match watching the fear in the eyes of the batsmen? There is no alternative to the beauty to speed.
There are no truer hard workers than fast bowlers in any format of cricket. They are expected to be 100 percent fit. The captain expects initial breakthroughs from them. They are made to bowl in the powerplays and yet expected to have low economy rate then the slower bowlers. Also, the changes in the rules of cricket in recent years have also caused a lot of disadvantages to them. The pitches all across the world are being made lifeless and flat. Everyone thinks about the batsmen. The crowd loves fours-sixes. Hardly anyone wants fast bowlers to succeed.
I, personally have always felt then Cricket is a game of reaction time. And there is no better evidence than watching pace bowlers taking the wickets. They go inside the reaction time, and earn those wickets. No other thing can come even miles closer to that.They challenge the decision taking abilities of the batsmen and often succeed too.
And, lastly I would like to tell I am big fan of the best pacers of my era: Del Steyn, James Anderson,Brett Lee, Shoaib Akhtar, Mitchell Johnson, Shane Bond, Umar Gul, Zaheer Khan, Lasith Malinga and many more.
Thanks
Let us start with the bowling run-up. It is a unique thing in cricket, which separates it from other games like baseball. In athletics, there are triple jump, hurdle race, long jump etc. but nothing matches the run-up of fast bowlers in cricket. Specially, pace bowlers have such a eye-catching run-up. For a bowler, nothing is more valuable than the final leap which he takes while delivering the ball. The batsman seems to be a slave. The bowler seems to be on the top of the universe. With different pace bowlers, the run up leaves different impressions. There are various categories of bowling run-ups too. Take wasim akram, waqar younis, shoaib akhtar: the three legends of pakistan era, all having different actions and run-ups used to vary. I used to get a high urge to bowl watching them doing the same.
Whoever says he is not frightened by enormous pace probably lies. Imagine yourself getting to play 95mph balls. Perhaps given a chance to walk into fire or playing them, you will take a long time to decide. It's just so dreadful. If there is something more beautiful and elegant than watching the stumps knocked away by pace power, I honestly don't want to know about it. They can ruffle anyone, even the best batsmen of the generation. Can Something really match watching the fear in the eyes of the batsmen? There is no alternative to the beauty to speed.
There are no truer hard workers than fast bowlers in any format of cricket. They are expected to be 100 percent fit. The captain expects initial breakthroughs from them. They are made to bowl in the powerplays and yet expected to have low economy rate then the slower bowlers. Also, the changes in the rules of cricket in recent years have also caused a lot of disadvantages to them. The pitches all across the world are being made lifeless and flat. Everyone thinks about the batsmen. The crowd loves fours-sixes. Hardly anyone wants fast bowlers to succeed.
I, personally have always felt then Cricket is a game of reaction time. And there is no better evidence than watching pace bowlers taking the wickets. They go inside the reaction time, and earn those wickets. No other thing can come even miles closer to that.They challenge the decision taking abilities of the batsmen and often succeed too.
And, lastly I would like to tell I am big fan of the best pacers of my era: Del Steyn, James Anderson,Brett Lee, Shoaib Akhtar, Mitchell Johnson, Shane Bond, Umar Gul, Zaheer Khan, Lasith Malinga and many more.
Thanks
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