Australian speed machine Shaun Tait aims at claiming the world record for highest bowling speed, held by Pakistani paceman Shoaib Akhtar, on the bouncy WACA wicket in the third Test against India beginning on Wednesday.
Tait came close to Akhtar's mark of 161.3 km per hour by bowling 160kmh last year and feels he bowled even quicker when there was no speed gun in Australia's Twenty20 demolition of New Zealand here last December.
"I'd like to have a crack at Shoaib's record and it would be nice to knock it off," Tait was quoted as saying by The Daily Telegraph.
"I've bowled at 160kmh before and there is no reason why I can't go quicker. There is a good possibility that I can bowl at that (world record) speed, especially if I go out there not thinking about it."
Former Australian paceman Dennis Lillee also believes that Tait was capable of being quicker than Akhtar and in fact could bowl at an incredible speed of 170kmh at the WACA.
"Tait, on a good day putting it all together, it would not surprise me if he bowled that 170kmh ball," Lillee said.
But Tait is not sure if he could rise up to Lillee's expectation
Tait came close to Akhtar's mark of 161.3 km per hour by bowling 160kmh last year and feels he bowled even quicker when there was no speed gun in Australia's Twenty20 demolition of New Zealand here last December.
"I'd like to have a crack at Shoaib's record and it would be nice to knock it off," Tait was quoted as saying by The Daily Telegraph.
"I've bowled at 160kmh before and there is no reason why I can't go quicker. There is a good possibility that I can bowl at that (world record) speed, especially if I go out there not thinking about it."
Former Australian paceman Dennis Lillee also believes that Tait was capable of being quicker than Akhtar and in fact could bowl at an incredible speed of 170kmh at the WACA.
"Tait, on a good day putting it all together, it would not surprise me if he bowled that 170kmh ball," Lillee said.
But Tait is not sure if he could rise up to Lillee's expectation
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