10 Fastest Bowls In Cricket History

Rise your hands who watch prime Lee and Akhtar, bond golden age of cricket 🏏

I had the privilege of watching Shoaib Akhtar bowl along with Wasim, Waqar, Saqlain, Azhar Mahmood, Abdul Razzaq in person during the world cup of 1999 in England, amazing memories.

Brett Lee - for his speed, swing, consistency and graceful bowling action.

Many years ago when the West Indies were in their prime (Lloyd, Richards, Holding, Haynes etc etc) I was fortunate enough to see Andy Roberts bowl at Bourda in Guyana. That pitch was not considered a "fast" pitch (as opposed to Kensington Oval in Barbados or Sabina Park in Jamaica) but all I could see was the dust that was kicked up when the ball hit the pitch. I could never actually see the ball! Now granted I was side on to the pitch but I had 17 year old eyes at the time! What impressed me even more is that his run up was relatively short and more on an "amble" as opposed to a sprint, yet the ball was released at what seemed to me at the time as unbelievable speed. Ahhh cricket, lovely cricket!

No one gets the combination of speed with good lines and conceading very little runs better than Brett Lee.

Shaun Tait & Shoaib Akhtar were the only bowlers in this list who gave more importance to speed instead of line & length.

Shane bond has the best high speed Yorker I’ve ever seen. Consistently quick and huge inswing. Body just couldn’t handle it

Lee was more consistent at bowling faster than Akhtar and had one of the cleanest bowling actions, which is quite remarkable. He wasn't wild like Akhtar or Tait.

Supporting Umran for bringing back lost legacy of frightening fast bowlers 160++ 🔥🔥🔥

Shane Bond had bolwed 156km/h he was the most dangerous bowler at that time.

Mayank yadav in India.. 🔥 157 ..... 158...160 🔥🔥🔥

Shoaib,Lee,and bond were very famous in speed,style,bounser Nd in yourker.miss those era👍😭♥️

I'm old enough (and addicted to cricket enough) to have seen most of these players live when they were in their prime. The speed gun wasn't available for Thomson until after he broke his shoulder, when he dropped noticeably in pace. In my opinion in the years 1974-75 he bowled quicker than any of these. THe wicketkeeper had to stand further back to him than for his teammate Dennis Lillee, for example, who prior to Thomson's arrival was considered the quickest bowler in the world.

Lucky enough to see most of the bowlers bowl in their prime, specially Shoaib Akhtar running all the way from boundary. 💞

Respect to all the fast bowlers on the list. Especially Brett Lee and Jeff Thomson! Love from South Africa.

Shame we’ll never know what Thompson’s fastest delivery was in his prime.

Yorker at 160kph is much tougher than a big bouncer at the same speed. With the bouncer, you get extra leverage and can generate extra force from the core. Yorker, not so easy. Measured speed is ok, beating that 100-mile Starc Yorker is going to be something else.

I like that how calm and cool was Shoaib after making a world record. 😎

In a IPL match 50 Umran Malik took his bowling speed upto 157km۔ By the time this tournament gets finish he will will reach to hit the wickets at the speed 160 and above۔ Well Enough to beat all the previous records

Brett lee is the best among them, his beautiful line & length, variations makes him the best.