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Well, while the English summer is doing its best to save Pakistan from certain annihilation, something that I've often mused on: why did the legendary John Arlott always say "quick bowler" as in "He's a genuine quick bowler", as opposed to "fast bowler" (which just about everyone else says…)
Any explanations?
 
Well, while the English summer is doing its best to save Pakistan from certain annihilation, something that I've often mused on: why did the legendary John Arlott always say "quick bowler" as in "He's a genuine quick bowler", as opposed to "fast bowler" (which just about everyone else says…)
Any explanations?

We probably only need another day’s play out of the next 3.
 
Well, while the English summer is doing its best to save Pakistan from certain annihilation, something that I've often mused on: why did the legendary John Arlott always say "quick bowler" as in "He's a genuine quick bowler", as opposed to "fast bowler" (which just about everyone else says…)
Any explanations?
Just interchangeable terms, fast and quick, at least these days I would say. I definitely use both words.
 
root will need to control this game right now ? we have pakistan on their knees and this is now a captains job to finish them with the right field and bowling changes
 
Just interchangeable terms, fast and quick, at least these days I would say. I definitely use both words.

Fair enough. I must say, I don't (unless I'm doing my best John Arlott impression, Hampshire accent included). I don't recollect commentators like Richie Benaud or Jim Laker ever saying it. Or commentators in general. Could I be wrong? Does Aggers say it? Bumble?
 
Sorry to wander – this might be worth a thread in itself, although I doubt it – but was anyone here a cricket fan before they were a football fan? I followed cricket fully three or four years before I paid any serious attention to football. Probably determined by the type of school I went to, admittedly. I couldn't have told you the name of one player in the English football team when Wes Hall and Charlie Griffiths were familiar to me.
Rugby, by the way, just doesn't do it for me.
 
Fair enough. I must say, I don't (unless I'm doing my best John Arlott impression, Hampshire accent included). I don't recollect commentators like Richie Benaud or Jim Laker ever saying it. Or commentators in general. Could I be wrong? Does Aggers say it? Bumble?
I've definitely heard other commentators use it, especially "genuine quick". Always evokes memories of the very best players such as Lillee or Holding to me, perhaps someone specialist in that field, and I'd like to think it came into use during the time when pace bowlers would sometimes employ much slower deliveries, even spin, in their armouries, perhaps a way to describe a player who only ever used the fast delivery.

I've no back up to this theory, though!
 
Sorry to wander – this might be worth a thread in itself, although I doubt it – but was anyone here a cricket fan before they were a football fan? I followed cricket fully three or four years before I paid any serious attention to football. Probably determined by the type of school I went to, admittedly. I couldn't have told you the name of one player in the English football team when Wes Hall and Charlie Griffiths were familiar to me.
Rugby, by the way, just doesn't do it for me.
Growing up watching the John Player Sunday league in the seventies, I definitely followed cricket before football. And with the Lancashire League in walking distance to our house with players like Clive Lloyd, Dennis Lillee, Trevor Chappell, Michael Holding, Wasim Raja, Kapil Dev and Viv Richards amongst many others turning up, it was difficult not to get enthused over it and I probably didn't start following City until I was 8 but have much earlier memories of attending these games.
 
Fair enough. I must say, I don't (unless I'm doing my best John Arlott impression, Hampshire accent included). I don't recollect commentators like Richie Benaud or Jim Laker ever saying it. Or commentators in general. Could I be wrong? Does Aggers say it? Bumble?
I have heard most commentators use the term. It is also a generic term for the fast bowlers in a team;
Wisden’s England Test team of the 2000s: The quicks to miss out
 
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