WI vs England 1973

a bit of Sobers and Kalli batting together. 

Lovely footage. Look at how short those boundaries are! If memory serves, there were frequent pitch invasions throughout this match, most notably when Clive Lloyd scored his century.

Edit: Youtube is such a great resource for all cricket videos. The first innings highlights has also been uploaded.

Snow was deceptively rapid....

Wonder at what speed he bowled....



Excellent action and saw him a number of times live.

In later life, in the 80s, he played at a neighbouring local Club, Edmonton, in the Middlesex League.

Fine bowler.

In a 1976 study, Snow was clocked at 86.5mph. A few other notable speeds from other players that took part in the study:

Jeff Thomson - 99.6 mph
Andy Roberts - 97.8mph
Dennis Lillee - 96.2mph
Michael Holding - 95.2mph
Wayne Daniel - 93.7mph
Bob Willis - 90.7mph
Alan Ward - 86.5mph

There was another study conducted three years later by Dr. Frank Pyke of the University of Western Australia, Perth. This study was broadcast on TV and can be seen below:



Results of those taking part:

Jeff Thomson   91.86mph
Michael Holding      87.76mph
Imran Khan           86.77mph
Colin Croft           86.45mph
Andy Roberts   86.08mph
Dennis Lillee   84.72mph
Garth Le Roux   84.46mph
Wayne Daniel   82.91mph
Len Pascoe   81.73mph
Richard Hadlee   80.62mph
Mike Procter   79.87mph
Sarfraz Nawaz   75.63mph

IIRC, Goog Lee mentioned that the testing used back then is different to the one today, so I am not sure how these radar readings compare to today's readings.

back then the radar was clocking the speed off the pitch, whereas today it is picking up the speed as the ball leaves the bowler's hand.

big difference!  once the ball hit the pitch it slows down!! 

In 76 Snowy ended his test career at 35.

The others on the list were young men in their mid 20s with Wardy being the old un at 29.

In fact, Holding was 22!

So not surprising his speed was down but I am told he was 'consistently' in the 90s.

The Chappells even mentioned this.

Zaheer Abbass had a fantastic 1976 scoring 2.5k runs with 11 tons. He had a similar season in 1981 or thereabouts.

1976 was made all the more special for Middlesex winning the County Championships!

Source ?  :-\

www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/693709.html