Bowling Machine for Bangladesh team - upto 100 mph.

pagol-chagol · #1 November 30, 2005, 10:34 AM

Do the Bangladesh team/clubs have bowling machines? I hear they cost about $2,500 in Paki and bowl as fast as 100 mph.

We should get a lot of them and help the players practice as much as possible.

Edited on, November 30, 2005, 4:02 PM GMT, by oracle.
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Fazal · #2 November 30, 2005, 10:52 AM

Thats not too expensive, considering the money they have in the bank and the money they are spending to the foreign coaches and trainers.They should have bowling machines to all the major facilities which includes outside the capital also.

*AsifTheManRahman* · #3 November 30, 2005, 10:57 AM

they do have bowling machines. i mean the national team does.

oracle · #4 November 30, 2005, 11:04 AM

there are 2 types as far as i recall. I don't know if each ground keeps a machine. Definetely BKSP has one.

jabbar · #5 November 30, 2005, 01:14 PM

Who cares? A bowling machine bowling at 100 mph will not prepare you to face Brett Lee or Akhtar.... There is so much more to bowling (cut, swing, trajectory etc.) that just cannot be replicated by a machine

billah · #6 November 30, 2005, 04:07 PM

Actually, some variations can be replicated in these bowling machines.

RazabQ · #7 November 30, 2005, 05:20 PM

Bowling machines are nice, but we need a Marlin - that machine that can bowl googlies and flippers.

pagol-chagol · #8 November 30, 2005, 05:27 PM

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Originally posted by jabbar
Who cares? A bowling machine bowling at 100 mph will not prepare you to face Brett Lee or Akhtar.... There is so much more to bowling (cut, swing, trajectory etc.) that just cannot be replicated by a machine

To clone Brett Lee/Shoaib we need about $9,999,999,999,999 withe the current market rate. I don't think we can afford it yet. We can only give them what we can afford.

Sorry · #9 November 30, 2005, 05:47 PM

speed machine ache thobe bhejal thel deye chalanor karone speed beshi otena.

Carte Blanche · #10 November 30, 2005, 06:03 PM

I watched some practice videos on Star Sports back in 99. I remember John Dykes saying that the bowling machines were capable of bowling inswingers, outswingers, yorkers bouncers etc. I'm not quite sure about the spin bowling variations though.

*AsifTheManRahman* · #11 November 30, 2005, 06:17 PM

AFAIK, the machines allow a lot of variation in spin as well, hoever i'm not sure about how good they replicate real game situations in those cases.

James90 · #12 November 30, 2005, 11:47 PM

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Originally posted by jabbar
Who cares? A bowling machine bowling at 100 mph will not prepare you to face Brett Lee or Akhtar.... There is so much more to bowling (cut, swing, trajectory etc.) that just cannot be replicated by a machine

They can. I've seen the machine's at school swing it heaps at around 80mph. If a pretty poor cricketing school like mine has one then the national team surely does.

jabbar · #13 December 1, 2005, 05:38 PM

I've used bowling machines too... nothing like the real thing.

Also, they use special "jugs balls" which have no seam and are different from normal cricket balls...

Perhaps you are referring to a more advanced machine, but that's they type of machine I've seen. It's basically a modified baseball pitching machine.

jabbar · #14 December 1, 2005, 05:40 PM

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Originally posted by billah
Actually, some variations can be replicated in these bowling machines.

Nope, sorry to say this, but you can't convince me on this one

Try the next door, perhaps they will buy your product.

James90 · #15 December 3, 2005, 08:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jabbar
I've used bowling machines too... nothing like the real thing.

Also, they use special "jugs balls" which have no seam and are different from normal cricket balls...

Perhaps you are referring to a more advanced machine, but that's they type of machine I've seen. It's basically a modified baseball pitching machine.

I hate "jug balls". They either use the yellow ones which is like you're hitting a slab of cement, or the use the orange ones which bounce unrealistically.

nannu · #16 December 4, 2005, 09:12 AM

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Originally posted by Sorry
speed machine ache thobe bhejal thel deye chalanor karone speed beshi otena.

fool balling machine oiol e chole na. electric e chole.
tobe bangladesher electricityteo vejal.

nannu ( the vejal )

LBW103 · #17 December 5, 2005, 03:08 PM

Just get Ian Pont of Essex in to coach. That way we'd have our own super fast bowlers as he's the world's leading expert on how to bowl fast and accurate.

Read the thread about Pace Academy Launched...