{"id":2498,"date":"2021-07-04T14:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T09:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=119748"},"modified":"2021-07-04T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T09:22:42","slug":"who-are-the-top-10-fastest-bowlers-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/who-are-the-top-10-fastest-bowlers-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the top 10 fastest bowlers of all time?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s the list of the top 10 fastest bowlers of all time.<\/p>\n

1. Shoaib Akhtar<\/h3>\n

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Former Pakistan speedster is also known as \u201cRawalpindi Express\u201d. He is the fastest bowler in the history of cricket. He holds the record for fastest delivery of 161.3 km\/h against England at the 2003 World Cup. Shoaib had picked 178 test wickets and 247 ODI wickets in his career.<\/p>\n

2. Brett Lee<\/h3>\n

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Former Australian pacer Brett Lee has taken 310 Test wickets along with 280 one-day International wickets. Brett Lee had contributed Australian in clinching the 2003 and 2007\u00a0 ICC World Cup titles. His fastest delivery of 161.1 km\/h was against New Zealand in 2005.<\/p>\n

3. Shaun Tait<\/h3>\n

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Former Australian pacer Shaun tait has bowled the fastest delivery of\u00a0 161.1km\/h in International his career which came against England. He took 62 ODI wickets from 2005 to 2016.<\/p>\n

4. Jeff Thomson<\/h3>\n

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Former Australian bowler Jeff Thomson had bowled his fastest delivery of 160.6 km\/h in his career. He has taken 200 Test wickets and 55 ODIs wickets. The Australian Cricket Board added Jeff Thomson into their Hall of Fame in 2016.<\/p>\n

5. Mitchell Starc<\/h3>\n

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Current Australian speedster Mitchell Starc has bowled fast delivery 160.4 km\/h in his career. He helped Australia to lift the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup. Till now, he has picked 244 test wickets, 178 ODI wickets and 43 T20I wickets.<\/p>\n

6. Andy Roberts<\/h3>\n

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Former West Indies pacer had taken seven wickets in an innings on two occasions. Also picked 202 Test wickets and 87 ODI wickets. His fast delivery of 159.5km\/h is still in the minds of many cricket fans.<\/p>\n

7. Fidel Edwards<\/h3>\n

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Former West Indies pacer Fidel Edwards had taken 165 Tests wickets and 60 ODI wickets in his career. His fastest delivery of 157.7km\/h was bowled against South Africa in 2003.<\/p>\n

8. Mitchell Johnson<\/h3>\n

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Former Australian pacer Mitchell Johnson bowled his fastest delivery of 156.8km\/h against England in 2003. He has taken 313 Tests wickets and 239 ODIs wickets and 38 T20I wickets.<\/p>\n

9. Mohammad Shami<\/h3>\n

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Current Indian fast bowler Mohammad Shami bowled his fastest delivery of 156.4km\/h against Zimbabwe in 2003. He has taken a hat-trick in Test cricket. Till now he has taken 85 Test wickets, 121 ODI wickets and 21 T20I wickets.<\/p>\n

10. Shane Bond<\/h3>\n

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Former New Zealand pacer Shane Bond has bowled his fastest delivery of 156.4km\/h during the 2003 World Cup. He has taken 87 Test wickets, 147 ODI wickets and 25 T20I wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We will present to you the list of the top 10 fastest pacers of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":25585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1381,1735,390,1065,995,1135,1758,332,828,1415,1220,1137,1015,1061,365],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-andy-roberts","tag-board-of-control-for-cricket-in-india","tag-brett-lee","tag-ca","tag-cricket-australia","tag-cricket-west-indies","tag-cwi","tag-mitchell-starc","tag-mohammad-shami","tag-new-zealand-cricket","tag-nzc","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-pcb","tag-shane-bond","tag-shoaib-akhtar"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}