Mohammad Sami has claimed that he threw two balls at over 160 km/h.© AFP
Former Pakistani pacesetter Mohammad Sami was one of the most exciting prospects for his country when he started playing the game and he formed a deadly partnership with Shoaib Akhtar. Sami also consistently threw in the 145-150 mph range and along with Akhtar, the duo made the opposing batters sweat. However, the former Pak pacer claimed that he threw two deliveries over 100 mph in a match, but these were not counted because the speed gun was not working.
“I bowled two balls over 100 mph in a match, one was 162 and the other was 164. Then it was said that the bowling machine (speed gun) was not working. So the balls were not counted. But if you look generally, who has bowled over 160, there has only been one or two balls in that speed,” Sami told paktv.tv.
“It’s not like they’ve bowled consistently at that speed. It happened every now and then,” he added.
According to statistics in ESPNcricinfo, Shoaib Akhtar is said to have played the fastest delivery in international cricket in 2002 with a speed of 161 km/h against New Zealand.
Sami played 36 Tests, 87 ODIs and 13 T20Is for Pakistan and took 227 wickets in all formats of the game.
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The pacer was part of Pakistan’s T20 World Cup squad in 2016 and played his last international match against Australia in Mohali in the same tournament.
Sami had made his test debut in 2001 against New Zealand in Auckland. A month later that same year, he made his ODI debut against Sri Lanka in Sharjah.
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