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Old February 9, 2011, 03:24 AM
Banglaguy Banglaguy is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Direct-Hit
Answer:
Lots of factors . . .Speed of delivery, pace of pitch, distance from bat, deviation off bat etc

But here is an approximation:

Bowler bowls 90mph ball (hand speed) which when it hits the pitch, the the edge is now actually travelling at 70mph. Wk / slip is standing 20 metres back. Ball is travelling at 70mph or 32 metres / second. 20 divided by 32 gives 0.62 seconds from edge to hands !

For a spinner reduce speeds to around 55mph - 65mph (27 metres / sec) but also reduce distance to around 3 metres for a wk and around 6 metres for a slip.
3 metres & 27m/s gives a reaction time of 0.12 seconds !

Hence you cannot judge wk standing up to a spinner in the same way you judge a slip fielder as the distances & reaction times are different. If ball deviates more than a fraction, he simply cannot adjust quickly enough.
Woah, so are there anyways I can increase my reaction times? Like how would you do it for our feilders?
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