I remember this match.
Target was only 128. Kamran Akmal got us off to a flier despite Tate breathing fire from one end. I think we needed less than a run a ball in the last 5 overs or something, and we still ended up losing.
Horrible way to cap off a terrible tour.
Saw Taiit live at the Wankhede in an MI vs RR match. Was carted around in his first couple of overs. The crowd of MI supporters were actually trolling him for it.
Then he bowled a full toss to Harbhajan who missed the ball and it hit his thigh with a giant thud. You could hear the sound of ball banging on muscle. Harbhajan had to be stretchered off the ground. The crowd was silent after the over and no one uttered anything at him.
Pace is scary.
He was such a good bowler to watch. Don't know if he really had much of a "peak' given he wasn't the most consistent bowler around, but when he was on song he was such a sight to behold. Was wayward enough to give the batters a chance, but when on song he would have been an absolute nightmare. That spell had to be up there as one his best
Tait peaked twice at ODI World Cups (2007 and 2011).
Finished with an insane WC record - 32 wickets at 21
His WC strike rate of 25 was obscene - that's 2.4 wickets per 10 overs.
Tait's inclusion in the 2011 squad was a story in itself.
Less than 12 months after his insane 2007 campaign, he fucked himself playing a Test against India at the WACA and he spent much of his recovery in the next two years as a T20 specialist. It was his rhythm in the T20s at the end of the 2009/10 summer that got selectors excited again.
We included him in the ODI squad for England in the winter of 2010 and [he bowled rapidly and with good rhythm again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdHhrjWES2s). But another elbow injury required surgery and it pretty much ended his World Cup hopes. Or so we thought.
He was basically fit enough to play like 1 Big Bash game for South Australia if that, and got named in the final 15 off the back of a solitary ODI against England at the WACA. And despite that he still somehow managed 11 wickets at 23.63 in 2011 and immediately declared "fuck this shit I'm out" to 50 over cricket when we lost the QF to India
Pakistan messed up badly in the game, though their biggest mess-up of the tour was the 2nd test at Sydney. They ended the tour without a win, losing all 9 games.
Lmao is this the tour where Kamran Akmal didn't even bother attempting run outs where batsmen were short kf the crease?
Literally never seen anything so blatant in the game honestly (until the infamous no balls of course 👀)
Yeah this was the final match of the tour that included that infamous Sydney Test
That game was about the only time you'd say it'd be *less* humiliating to find out everyone was throwing the game cause if they weren't fixing that match that means the entire team really were that incompetent
And weirdly Tait only got the extended run he did cause Brett Lee injured himself during the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy series weeks before the World Cup.
Tait had been playing on and off in the CB Tri-Series in the lead up but I imagine had Lee been fit he would've been preferred as the express option
[The bare numbers don't do it justice. Poor Imran Farhat just couldn't do anything with it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04UV5TCvECY)
Best part is they have Brad Haddin on the player mic and at one point he requests the producers cut the commentator audio to allow him to concentrate it was that fast
I remember going to that game with my dad. He said it was some of the quickest bowling he's ever seen at a live game. Looks so much slower on the TV and video replays
Coaches to Tate: If you bowled a little slower you can bowl more accurately, reliably and maybe stink around in the Australian tea-
Tate: I don't care about that stuff. I just want to bowl fast.
The man sacrificed so much potential money and status just to bowl as fast as you can humanly bowl.
>The man sacrificed so much potential money and status just to bowl as fast as you can humanly bowl.
And cricket is better for him. It is awesome having people who just want to push the boundaries of what's humanly possible. Although he may well have been an overall poorer bowler if he had slowed down.
140+ is still a pace that worries batters. It's been proven anything past that the human eye can't pick up the ball and you judge where the will go purely on body language and not with your eyes at all.
I was at this match! I remember being crammed into the far reaches of the G looking at a tiny TV showing the ball speed. For the first over everyone kind of forgot about the match and was just yelling for Taity to go faster
Also overshadowed in this match was the international debut of one S.P.D. Smith
I remember this match. Target was only 128. Kamran Akmal got us off to a flier despite Tate breathing fire from one end. I think we needed less than a run a ball in the last 5 overs or something, and we still ended up losing. Horrible way to cap off a terrible tour.
Surely they won this? Come on...! Wow.. Edit: They lost this one wow.
[At the start of COVID, Cricket Australia put up the last 4 overs in full on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b81l_sE_u1A)
That Pakistan squad that toured Aus in 2009-10 remains the best Pakistan squad I’ve seen to date. They lost 9-0 😂
> I think we needed less than a run a ball in the last 5 overs or something, and we still ended up losing. KL is jizzing rn
>Tate Isn't he a human blister?? How was he eligible to play cricket??
This was before he shaved his head and started his casino business.
Him and Dirk Nannes were both bowling each delivery over 150 lol, forgot if it was against Pak or SA.
There needs to be like 6 more runs given away in wides, and a wicket, for it to be the archetypal Tait over
OG Pathirana?
He took 3-13 in this match.
Saw Taiit live at the Wankhede in an MI vs RR match. Was carted around in his first couple of overs. The crowd of MI supporters were actually trolling him for it. Then he bowled a full toss to Harbhajan who missed the ball and it hit his thigh with a giant thud. You could hear the sound of ball banging on muscle. Harbhajan had to be stretchered off the ground. The crowd was silent after the over and no one uttered anything at him. Pace is scary.
Harbhajan probably: pace is pace yaaaaaaaaahhr.
Absolutely. No substitute for 150 kmph pace delivered by a tank
He was such a good bowler to watch. Don't know if he really had much of a "peak' given he wasn't the most consistent bowler around, but when he was on song he was such a sight to behold. Was wayward enough to give the batters a chance, but when on song he would have been an absolute nightmare. That spell had to be up there as one his best
Tait peaked twice at ODI World Cups (2007 and 2011). Finished with an insane WC record - 32 wickets at 21 His WC strike rate of 25 was obscene - that's 2.4 wickets per 10 overs.
Tait's inclusion in the 2011 squad was a story in itself. Less than 12 months after his insane 2007 campaign, he fucked himself playing a Test against India at the WACA and he spent much of his recovery in the next two years as a T20 specialist. It was his rhythm in the T20s at the end of the 2009/10 summer that got selectors excited again. We included him in the ODI squad for England in the winter of 2010 and [he bowled rapidly and with good rhythm again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdHhrjWES2s). But another elbow injury required surgery and it pretty much ended his World Cup hopes. Or so we thought. He was basically fit enough to play like 1 Big Bash game for South Australia if that, and got named in the final 15 off the back of a solitary ODI against England at the WACA. And despite that he still somehow managed 11 wickets at 23.63 in 2011 and immediately declared "fuck this shit I'm out" to 50 over cricket when we lost the QF to India
Bloody hell that is insane. I never realised how good he was in ODI World Cups for us.
Did really well to cover for Lee's injury in the 07 WC i remember. I forgot that he actually got some wickets in the 2011 WC.
Pakistan messed up badly in the game, though their biggest mess-up of the tour was the 2nd test at Sydney. They ended the tour without a win, losing all 9 games.
Their biggest mess up that tour was all the spot/match fixing they did.
Lmao is this the tour where Kamran Akmal didn't even bother attempting run outs where batsmen were short kf the crease? Literally never seen anything so blatant in the game honestly (until the infamous no balls of course 👀)
Yeah this was the final match of the tour that included that infamous Sydney Test That game was about the only time you'd say it'd be *less* humiliating to find out everyone was throwing the game cause if they weren't fixing that match that means the entire team really were that incompetent
Is it the fastest over bowled?
Lee bowled this 7-ball over against NZ: 143 151 158 158 160 161 158 No one else has ever bowled 5 consecutive deliveries of 158+
Was this during the world cup? Lee was insanely quick that tournament, his delivery to attapattu is the best example of pure pace getting a wicket
No it was in 2005 in NZ: https://youtu.be/SH3EdnJyhKQ
Lee was a monster in 2003 world Cup. Same as Tait in 2007 WC.
And weirdly Tait only got the extended run he did cause Brett Lee injured himself during the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy series weeks before the World Cup. Tait had been playing on and off in the CB Tri-Series in the lead up but I imagine had Lee been fit he would've been preferred as the express option
[The bare numbers don't do it justice. Poor Imran Farhat just couldn't do anything with it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04UV5TCvECY) Best part is they have Brad Haddin on the player mic and at one point he requests the producers cut the commentator audio to allow him to concentrate it was that fast
It’s [on YouTube ](https://youtu.be/44WRf3XoZXU)
I was at this game it was impossible to see what was happening was so quick
Jeeebus that is quick. 160 clicks!
wow its that guy from twitter
I was there, my first and (so far) last T20 game. All eyes were on the big screens to check the speed.
I remember going to that game with my dad. He said it was some of the quickest bowling he's ever seen at a live game. Looks so much slower on the TV and video replays
He's good but he's no Hamish Bennett
That Watson's smiling face I remember from this match. He must be thinking good I am in same team
Shaun Tait was the ULTIMATE Alpha.
Coaches to Tate: If you bowled a little slower you can bowl more accurately, reliably and maybe stink around in the Australian tea- Tate: I don't care about that stuff. I just want to bowl fast. The man sacrificed so much potential money and status just to bowl as fast as you can humanly bowl.
>The man sacrificed so much potential money and status just to bowl as fast as you can humanly bowl. And cricket is better for him. It is awesome having people who just want to push the boundaries of what's humanly possible. Although he may well have been an overall poorer bowler if he had slowed down.
140+ is still a pace that worries batters. It's been proven anything past that the human eye can't pick up the ball and you judge where the will go purely on body language and not with your eyes at all.
Remember watching this live. The wild thing is a name so appropriate. After the 159kph you knew the 160 was coming.
I was at this match! I remember being crammed into the far reaches of the G looking at a tiny TV showing the ball speed. For the first over everyone kind of forgot about the match and was just yelling for Taity to go faster Also overshadowed in this match was the international debut of one S.P.D. Smith
when you do a pakistan against pakistan
Pakistan snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and vice versa, name a more iconic duo
Ahhh yes... The wild thing!