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World’s Fastest Cricket Ball: Pakistan pacer Mohd Sami’s bizarre claim, not Shoaib Akhtar but he bowled world’s fastest delivery- check out

World’s Fastest Cricket Ball: Pakistan pacer Mohd Sami’s bizarre claim, not Shoaib Akhtar but he bowled world’s fastest delivery- check out

World’s Fastest Cricket Ball: Mohd Sami- Shoaib Akhtar In a bizzare claim, former Pakistan pacer Mohd Sami has claimed that he had bowled the world’s fastest ball. The latter was one of the exciting prospects during his stint for Pakistan. He has claimed that he bowled a couple of deliveries which were faster that Shoaib […]

World’s Fastest Cricket Ball: Mohd Sami- Shoaib Akhtar In a bizzare claim, former Pakistan pacer Mohd Sami has claimed that he had bowled the world’s fastest ball. The latter was one of the exciting prospects during his stint for Pakistan. He has claimed that he bowled a couple of deliveries which were faster that Shoaib Akhtar’s world record of 161 kmph. The right-arm bowler was a gun pacer and used to bowl at 145-150 kmph consistently. Follow all the cricket updates on InsideSport.IN

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World’s Fastest Cricket Ball: Pakistan pacer Mohd Sami’s bizarre claim, not Shoaib Akhtar but he bowled world’s fastest delivery- check out

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“I bowled two balls more than 160kmph in a match, one was 162 and the other was 164. After that, it was said that the bowling machine (speed gun) is not working. So, the balls were not counted. But if you look overall, whoever has bowled with a speed of more than 160, there have been just one or two balls in that speed,” Sami told paktv.tv.

“It is not like they have bowled with that speed consistently. It happened occasionally,” he added.

Stats- World’s Fastest Deliveries

Player Team Kph Against Date
Shoaib Akhtar Pakistan 161 v New Zealand 27/04/2002
Shoaib Akhtar Pakistan 160 v New Zealand 27/04/2002
Shoaib Akhtar Pakistan 159.9 v New Zealand 21/04/2002
Shoaib Akhtar Pakistan 159.5 v Sri Lanka 12/04/2002
Shoaib Akhtar Pakistan 159.0 v Sri Lanka 17/04/2002
Shoaib Akhtar Pakistan 158.4 v Sri Lanka 17/04/2002
Brett Lee Australia 157.4 v South Africa 08/03/2002
Shoaib Akhtar Pakistan 157.4 v Sri Lanka 12/04/2002
Brett Lee Australia 157.3 v South Africa 08/03/2002
Shoaib Akhtar Pakistan 157.2 v Australia 09/06/2001

 

Mohd Sami represented Pakistan in 136 international matches, including 36 Tests and finished with 227 wickets across all formats of the game. He took 42 wickets against India in Tests & ODIs.

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