Record #00439Sports archive
Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan delivered a ball registered at 161.3 km/h against England on 22 February 2003 at the Cricket World Cup, a widely documented electronic speed-gun record; comparisons across speed-gun systems remain limited.
Current Record
161.3km/h
Current record value
On 22 February 2003, Pakistan played England at Newlands in Cape Town, where a broadcaster speed gun recorded the delivery.
ICC coverage lists Akhtar's 161.3 km/h reading ahead of Brett Lee's 160.7 km/h at the same tournament. Equipment across eras is not standardized, so the figure is a measured record rather than a physical upper bound.
Credible sources support core facts; the comparison scope or corroboration remains incomplete.
Basis: direct confirmation by an authority
The ICC reports the 161.3 km/h broadcast speed-gun reading from the 2003 World Cup. Guinness also lists the measured delivery while noting the absence of standardized speed-gun calibration for a universally official cross-era record.
Speed guns are not standardized across eras; the absolute ranking is not formally uniform.
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