Talk:Jeff Thomson

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Searching for "jeff thomson cricket" in google returns 37500 entries. "jeff thompson cricket" returns 104000 entries. However, cricinfo spells it as "thomson", so i'm going with that. - Ianbrown 14:42, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Speeds
In a fast bowling contest in 1978 that included some of the top bowlers in the world, Thomson came out on top with a delivery clocked at 99.7 mph (Michael Holding was 2nd and Imran Khan came 3rd at 89 miles an hour).

This does not agree with the facts. As per Eddie Smith's articles in Cricinfo http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/120260.html and http://www.wisdengroup.com/db/STATS/FC/BOWLING/BOWLING_SPEEDS_OTHER.html, Thomson's 99.7 was registered during a Test in Perth and a 99.8 later in 1976. In the 1979 study, Thomson clocked 91 and Imran 86.

He routinely bowled over 90 mph and terrorised batsmen with his blistering speed.

Unsourced and just an opinion. He probably did but they rarely measured speed in those days for someone to be sure that Thomson 'routinely' bowled over 90. Tintin (talk) 09:55, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think phrasing that he "terrorised" batsmen would be incorrect, his psychological impact on many English batsmen of the day was commented on at the time - Mike Denness took to wearing a motorcycle helmet after facing Lillee and Thompson and the West Indian quicks thereafter.LessHeard vanU 22:55, 25 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I was commenting about the 'routinely bowled over 90' part. That is just a guess. I agree that "terrorism" part is nearly universally accepted and won't be difficult to source. Tintin (talk) 14:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Javelin-throwing vs slinging action
I have amended the description of Thommo's bowling style; when throwing the javelin the elbow is bent considerably and leads past the shoulder and then straightened to produce velocity/speed. Such a delivery always has been deemed illegal in cricket. Thommo's style has more accurately been described as slinging, as in the manner of the medieval war machine trebuchet, with a very straight arm. The opposing batsmen may have been inclined to debate whether they were facing javelins or slingshot, however. Also, Thommo had a very brief English County Championship career with Middlesex.LessHeard vanU 22:48, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 17:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Source material
Loads of useful stuff at --Dweller (talk) 12:54, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Runs per over
He conceded a lot of runs (almost 124 per over)

I really don't think he conceded 124 runs per over as it's impossible. I have deleted this and someone can add it back if they know if it was per match or wicket or whatever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.96.39.172 (talk) 07:45, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

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Why was he not picked if he was in England in 1981?
"Overlooked for the 1981 Ashes tour of England, he decided to spend the season with Middlesex in the hope that he might be needed as a late replacement in the Australian team." -- and yet, when the 1981 team did need a late replacement, they picked the almost unknown Mike Whitney. It's hard to believe they would have picked Whitney over Thomson if Thomson was fit and in England. So... there must be more to this story; did Thomson suffer injury playing for Middlesex? Adpete (talk) 01:21, 18 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Here we go, he got injured in June (and Whitney got picked in August): "Coming down to London at the end of June [1981], I was resigned to a spell in Middlesex Seconds... Instead, the day after getting back I was summoned to the first team at Trent Bridge because Thomson had suffered a hernia. As it turned out, he wasn't to play again that summer." (from "A Lot of Hard Yakka" by Simon Hughes (cricketer)).  Adpete (talk) 03:17, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Good article...?
I'm not going to nominate this yet, but I've really beefed up this article with some added extras (personal life, anecdotes, etc.). I've done some light copyediting, but I think another round of copyediting (plus having all "citation needed" tags addressed) would put this very close to being worth of being labelled a "good article". Electricmaster (talk) 18:37, 28 August 2022 (UTC)