About Jeff Thomson
Jeffrey Robert Thomson is a former Australian cricketer. Known as "Thommo", he is one of the fastest bowlers in the history of cricket; he bowled a delivery with a speed of 160.6 km/h against the West Indies in Perth in 1975, which was the fastest recorded delivery at the time and the fourth-fastest recorded delivery of all time. He was a part of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup. In 1979, Thomson won a fastest-bowling competition held by the Australian television station Channel 9, the same year in which he was banned from playing professional cricket due to striking a soccer referee. I said, "I won, boss"; he said, "good".Many critics who saw Thomson bowl rate him as one of the fastest they had seen, including Richie Benaud, who considered him the fastest since Frank Tyson. After playing five first-class games and taking 17 wickets, Thomson was a surprise selection in for the second Test against Pakistan. So I won the 5 grand, I hit the stumps three times out of six or whatever, and I've cleaned up.
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