South Africa vs Australia Official Tour Thread

[DJ...]

More importantly, how are you guys measuring the speed of these deliveries?

We all attended academies where it was clocked. We knew how fast we bowled and threw...

 

[Electric]

We were throwing the ball as fast as we could. Certainly weren't bowling that. Fastest I faced as a kid was Pat Symcox's son Russell. Luckily we were team mates as kids but by the age of 14 he was already clocking close to 130. Also faced Nantie Hayward in the UK a few years back. That was scary...

That;s what I'm basing my arguemtn off of.
When I faced him in matric in 96 he was a bowling animal.

 

[Creag]

Where you? Harrismith?

ROFL

Stopped raining by me.

Come on, dude, where are you posting this from and an update every 10 to 15 minutes would be appreciated

 

[DJ...]

We used to duck 'n dive at my mate's place as they had a long narrow concrete path next to their house. We used a golf ball and a plank type bat!!

Plenty of einas!!!!

Nothing like the risk of a shiner to bring out the true batsman in you. We did the same thing as kids. Some ball games cross generations.

Wait, that sounds awful...

 

[MickeyD]

So is it raining in Durban?

 

[DJ...]

It's not rocket science. Start stopwatch from moment bowler releases ball and end stowpatch when ball reaches batsman. Take that time and take the size of pitch into the equation and the rest is math...

That will give you average. Modern clocking is done from the hand. Not even the big guns can bowl average 140 odd...

 

[Electric]

Oh God.

Are you purposefully being obtuse?
Why not just respond to our statements?

 

[mercurial]

Yeah i know how the process works, i find it humorous that you think thats a more accurate way of measuring the speed of a ball than a machine.

You misunderstood what I said. I did not at any point say it was more accurate than the machine. I said it's the way they calculate the speed that's wrong. The machine is perfect but they don't take it from the time the bowler releases the ball until the moment it reaches the batsman. They take it immediately at the time the ball is released from the bowler's hand. By the time it reaches the batsman, it's only 115 - 125 kp/h. They've shown this on TV numerous times... In the old days, it was the way I calculated it. Michael Holding also discussed this the other day...

 

[AirWolf]

Pouring In Clare Estate (just had a call from a business associate) - maybe 20km from the stadium?

Edit: Just checked on Google Maps - 10.3km

 

[mercurial]

Are you purposefully being obtuse?
Why not just respond to our statements?

No, you're retarded because you're so incredibly close-minded.

 

[DJ...]

Calm your vaginas, girls...

 

[Electric]

huh?
Now you're just taking shots at me for no reason.
I didn't realise we had suddenly kicked into a serious conversation.
Even my comment about rotational arm speed was made as a joke.

Are you being serious?

We are talking about garden cricket and taped balls aren't we?

 

[Unhappy438]

We all attended academies where it was clocked. We knew how fast we bowled and threw...

Ah ok, at least its not the stop watch method.

Come on, dude, where are you posting this from and an update every 10 to 15 minutes would be appreciated

According to google 10kms from the stadium as the crow flies.

 

[Creag]

According to google 10kms from the stadium as the crow flies.

Duly noted. Thank you.

 

[sand_man]

So is it raining in Durban?

No idea, but it stopped raining in Harrismith.

 

[DJ...]

Ah, taped balls. Reminds me of Ockie and marine1's first date...

 

[Unhappy438]

You misunderstood what I said. I did not at any point say it was more accurate than the machine. I said it's the way they calculate the speed that's wrong. The machine is perfect but they don't take it from the time the bowler releases the ball until the moment it reaches the batsman. They take it immediately at the time the ball is released from the bowler's hand. By the time it reaches the batsman, it's only 115 - 125 kp/h. They've shown this on TV numerous times... In the old days, it was the way I calculated it. Michael Holding also discussed this the other day...

Yeah i know what you meant about the speed from the hand etc, i was referring to certain variables that will throw your calculations off. Reaction time of whoever is controlling the stop watch is the main one.

 

[Creag]

The weather is clearing in Kingsmead as we head into the evening so there is some chance of play.

Weather: http://www.yr.no/place/South_Africa/KwaZulu-Natal/Kingsmead/

Radar: http://www.yr.no/kart/#lat=-29.85&lon=31.01667&zoom=7&laga=nedb%C3%B8r&baseid=PunktUtlandet%3A990873&proj=900913

If you move the time "bar" of the radar toward 19h00, you'll see that the weather system currently bringing rain moves in a NNE direction.

By 22h00 it shows that it should have cleared. The bottom line is that I have hope

 

[mercurial]

Yeah i know what you meant about the speed from the hand etc, i was referring to certain variables that will throw your calculations off. Reaction time of whoever is controlling the stop watch is the main one.

:wtf:

 

[Creag]

Time to separate thread dedicated to those who wish to philosophise all possible methodologies of calculation of the speed of ball between hand and bat, and all possible anomalies and oddities which may arise from such possibilities.