Javagal Srinath
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"Javagal Srinath" is a former Indian cricketer and current Elite Panel of ICC Referees/ICC Match Referee. He's considered among India's finest fast bowlers and remains the only Indian fast bowler to have taken more than 300 wickets in One Day International/ODIs.

He was a frontline fast bowling/fast bowler for the Indian cricket team until his retirement, being the second Indian pace bowler after Kapil Dev to take 200 Test cricket/Test wickets. One ball during the series against Australia in 1997/98 season measured . He also clocked 149.6 km/hr at the 1999 World Cup.For bowling speed details of all the players in international cricket, refer to : [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/95065.html%20 List of fastest deliveries] and [http://sporteology.com/top-10-fastest-bowlers-in-the-history-of-cricket/ Top ten fastest cricket bowlers]

Following South Africa's tour to India in late 1996, India traveled to South Africa where speed guns were in operation. That was the only series in Srinath's career where authentic speed gun readings were available before his career-threatening rotator-cuff injury of 1997. Srinath was recorded at 157 km/hr against Zimbabwe at Paarl on 27 January 1997.

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