60s 70s Spireite, on 28 September 2014 - 10:28 PM, said:
Plenty of sixes cone from slow bowlers. It's called timing and backlift, not effort.. Try not to be so condescending and pious.
It's timing, backlift - and a lot more effort than it needs to hit a fast ball. Let's go back to school physics - a moving object, say a football, possesses energy; the faster it moves, the more energy. When it comes up against another object, say an attackers forehead, it doesn't immediately lose all that energy. In the absence of any effort by the attacker it will simply rebound - a fast moving ball will rebound a lot further than a slow moving one, won't it?
Therefore, if the attacker puts in the same amount of effort in the case of the fast moving ball and the slow ball, it's obvious the fast moving ball will rebound a lot faster and further.
So - sling the ball in fast, and any resulting header will be powerful, almost irrespective of the amount of effort the attacker puts in.
That's not condescending - it's an explanation of what most people observe dozens of times in every match they watch.