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They did studies with cricket players. They foind that it took 200ms for players to start responding to a change in the balls trajectory. Not to successfully h
by FranksTV 5y ago
They did studies with cricket players. They foind that it took 200ms for players to start responding to a change in the balls trajectory.
Not to successfully hit the ball, but just to start to make an adjustment to their swing.
- abdullahkhalids 5y agoI would like a citation on that. The pitch length is 20m, and typical fast balls can be 120km/h=33m/s. For a "yorker" that might mean only 20.12/33=0.6s for the ball to reach the batsman, but for a typical bounced delivery, it's probably like 1 second. However, the ball bounces usually 5 m from the batsman, and changes direction after the bounce, and that gives only 5/33=0.15s (or maybe 0.2-0.25s) to reach the batsman after the bounce. Which means that the batsman is unable to change their swing after the bounce. That I find hard to believe. I think they do.