Bumrah can consistently bowl at speeds in excess of 145 kmph which makes him one of the quickest bowlers in world cricket at the moment. (Illustration: Suvajit Dey) [...]
Reverse Magnus effect
Experiments on a rotating sphere at the National Wind Tunnel Facility, IIT Kanpur, conducted by this writer and his students, have revealed that this spin ratio puts the ball into the reverse Magnus effect regime [...]
Written by Sanjay Mittal
(Sanjay Mittal is Professor, Aerospace Engineering, at IIT Kanpur)