 "Wisden" describes how the record was set around 1882, by one Robert Percival at Durham Sands Racecourse, at 140 yards and two feet (128.7 m).Former Essex all-rounder Ian Pont threw a ball 138 yards (126.19 m) in Cape Town in 1981.There are unconfirmed reports that Jānis Lūsis, the non-cricketer Soviet javelin thrower, who won the Olympic gold medal in 1968, once threw a ball 150 yards.