Top 10 current fastest bowlers in international cricket

Bowling fast is art so to speak as it extracts a tremendous amount of energy from a bowler’s body. Pounding one’s ankle and knee over many times throughout the career results in a relatively short career for the faster bowlers, but still, they have the most impact in the history of Test cricket.

There have been bowlers in the era before the speed guns who were definitely faster than today’s pacers like Wes Hall, Fred Trueman, Frank Tyson, the West Indies quartet of Holding, Garner, Marshall, and Roberts. Australia’s Jeff Thomson has been regarded as the first genuine quick bowler in Test history, while Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan was the first to breach the 100mph barrier officially.

Keeping this theme in the mind, we present to you the fastest bowlers in current times with their quickest recorded delivery listed alongside.

10. Pat Cummins – 151 KPH

Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins had made a terrific comeback into Test cricket after missing out on 5 years of his career, which he had started so promisingly against South Africa in 2011 at the age of 18 years. A back injury meant that he underwent surgery and intense rehabilitation in Australia, before playing his first game back in 2015.

He was back in 2015 in full flow and made his Test return against India in India in 2017, which proved to be a watershed moment in his career, as he bowled as fast as he was in his debut series and got the purchase out of dead Indian wickets. This also proved his fitness to the Australian selectors and they found their successor to Mitchell Johnson as leader of Kangaroos’ bowling attack.

Cummins’ fastest clocked delivery has been 151 kph, but he has constantly bowled in 150 kph bracket no matter what the surface he has played on. With his sheer pace and skills, Cummins has well established himself as the best bowler in the world, which the ICC rankings also support as he is the no.1 ranked Test bowler.