Did Kiwi pacer Neil Wagner actually bowl a 160 kmph delivery?
The left-arm pacer was bowling to Dinesh Chandimal when he supposedly stunned the world with a fiery delivery.
Kiwi seamer Neil Wagner who generally bowls at 130 Kmph, surprised everybody during the second day of the first Test between New Zealand and Sri Lanka when he cranked up to the 160 mark. However, a low flying seagull has been blamed for the intervention in the speed gun used for recording the pace of the deliveries, reported Business Recorder.
The left-arm pacer was bowling to Dinesh Chandimal at Dunedin on Friday when he supposedly stunned the world with a fiery delivery. However, members of the television production team operating the speed radar said a bird had probably caused an inaccurate reading from one of two monitors at the ground.
The alternative reading was 133kph, more in keeping with Wagner's usual pace. If Wagner did in fact send down a ball at 160kph, he would have been just a shade off Mitchell Starc's Test world record of 160.4, set last month in Perth.
The fastest recorded delivery is 161.3 by Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar, nicknamed the "Rawalpindi Express", against England in a 2003 World Cup limited-overs match.