Watch: Mitchell Starc breaks McCullum's bat and clocks the fastest ball of his career

Watch: Mitchell Starc breaks McCullum’s bat and clocks the fastest ball of his career: Mitchell Starc injected life into the second Test match between Australia and New Zealand by clocking the fastest ball of his career. On a batting paradise, and a Test match dominated by the willow, Starc sent one down to Ross Taylor at 160.4 kph. Taylor was batting on 137, at the time he faced the fast cherry.

Previously Brendon McCullum faced the wrath from Starc, as the fast bowler did enough to break the New Zealand skipper’s bat. He clocked 154.8 kph to Brendon, as the willow went for a walk.

The firing delivery, a yorker to Ross Taylor; fell just shy of Shoaib Akhtar’s world record mark of 161.3kph. Akhtar’s record was set in  2003  against England in a One dayer. And it also fell just short of the 100-mile mark, with the records leaving it at 99.667939mph.

Shaun Tait (161.1kph) and Brett Lee (161.1kph) are other Australian bowlers who have been clocked at more than 160kph.  Mitchell Starc has scalped 84 Test wickets and 90 ODI wickets from 23 Test matches and 46 ODI’s. He has so far picked up 10 wickets in the ongoing Test series against New Zealand.

The fastest deliveries recorded in cricket

• 161.3kph: Shoaib Akhtar, ODI v England in 2003 at Newlands
• 161.1kph: Shaun Tait, ODI v England in 2010 at Lord’s
• 161.1kph: Brett Lee, ODI v NZ in 2005 at Napier
• 160.6kph: Jeff Thomson, Test v WI in 1976 at WACA
• 160.4kph: Mitchell Starc, Test v NZ in 2015 at WACA

Watch: Mitchell Starc breaks the willow and clocks the fastest ball of his career: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZT0wcgSPxs