Technologies that changed cricket over the years

Gun (Speedometer)

Shoaib Akhtar bowled one of the fastest deliveries in cricket history.

We’ve often heard about former fast bowlers who were champions and how they intimidated even the best batsmen in the world. The likes of Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson, the famous West Indies pace quartets and many others ruled international cricket in their time. As the experts and former batsmen say, they were quite quick and it was sometimes a nightmare to face them at their peak. However, nobody knows at what speed they operated at. Or who was the quickest during their time.

Hence, the advent and the introduction of the speed gun helped in determining whose bowling at what speed or which bowler is/was the quickest. The speed gun measured at what speed the ball was delivered i.e the estimated speed of the delivery bowled.