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Saturday, November 29, 2025
TopicFast bowlers

Topic: fast bowlers

Former Australia fast bowler Gordon Rorke dies at 87

The cricketer played 36 first-class matches, including 4 Test matches for Australia, claiming 88 wickets with three five-wicket hauls and a best of 6-52.

ICC just tweaked rules for men’s cricket. Stop clock rule in Test, new DRS protocols now in place

While some of the new rules are already in effect for the 2025–27 World Test Championship cycle, those relating to white-ball cricket will take effect 2 July.

Frank Tyson — Indian cricket owes a lot to ‘reluctant Bombay coach’ who taught bowlers to run

Once an invincible force, the Bombay team was in crisis in the 1980s. With the ‘Typhoon’ as their coach, they bounced back within a year & stormed into the finals of the Ranji Trophy.

‘Sultan of Swing’ with a poetic delivery — Why Wasim Akram became a legend in his own lifetime

That cricket as a sport encourages batsmen, bowlers and fielders to display their skills, is merely stating the obvious. What is less obvious is that...

Broken bones, fractured jaws, bruised egos — The lesser-known tale of India’s pace bowling

In 'Speed Merchants', Gulu Ezekiel and Vijay Lokapally write about fast bowlers who would be known on the world stage if India's Test debut had come in 1920s rather than 1932.

Feared fast man returns: How a fit Bumrah is adding new missiles to his deadly arsenal

Two years since his Test debut, India fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah speaks about his variations, his many teachers, and why he never felt overwhelmed by big names.

New mindset, intensity, bench strength — how pacers helped India thrash South Africa 3-0

After Indian fast bowlers outshine South Africans in Test series, Kapil Dev says their success is down to the belief that they can take wickets in any conditions.

World Cup 2019 is showing that India has finally become a fast-bowling nation

All three of India’s pacers — Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar and Shami — are capable of hitting 90 mph, the traditional yardstick for being ‘quick’.

On Camera

No country built rare earths resilience alone. India must take lessons from Japan, Taiwan

Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.

Karnataka startups feel the chill as global funding winter sets in. Fintech emerges as sole bright spot

The state raises just $2.7 billion in first nine months of 2025 compared to $4.5 billion last year, with late-stage investments hit hardest.

What’s expected from Putin’s India visit in December—Defence Secretary explains

ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.