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Tier 1 WW Player
He did have a whipping action over the top. He broke 160 a few times in an ODI against NZ IIRCmaybe he was a hybrind, he was pretty proper but looking form the side view he had a sling, hence the chuck calls from some
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He did have a whipping action over the top. He broke 160 a few times in an ODI against NZ IIRCmaybe he was a hybrind, he was pretty proper but looking form the side view he had a sling, hence the chuck calls from some
He did have a whipping action over the top. He broke 160 a few times in an ODI against NZ IIRC
look at him go!
straight over that front leg then wooshka
It really was the perfect action to bowl fast for a long period of time, technically correct whilst very whippy at the same time.
How's this sound?
So we can take England on an Australian pitch, clearly. We've seen it over and over now, yet we struggle to work our magic on English pitches.
We've seen also how good English bowlers are on slower, swinging wickets yet struggle here.
We seem to have a number of bowlers playing state cricket who are great swing bowlers. Chad Sayers among them.
Should we take a swing friendly team to England?
How's this sound?
So we can take England on an Australian pitch, clearly. We've seen it over and over now, yet we struggle to work our magic on English pitches.
We've seen also how good English bowlers are on slower, swinging wickets yet struggle here.
We seem to have a number of bowlers playing state cricket who are great swing bowlers. Chad Sayers among them.
Should we take a swing friendly team to England?
Our bowlers weren't the issue last tour of England. Their average team score was a tad over 260 and the runs/wicket was 29, which really isn't great from them. Starc, Cummins, Hazlewood, Bird and Sayers/Tremain/Pattinson is good enough from a fast bowling perspective, along with Lyon.How's this sound?
So we can take England on an Australian pitch, clearly. We've seen it over and over now, yet we struggle to work our magic on English pitches.
We've seen also how good English bowlers are on slower, swinging wickets yet struggle here.
We seem to have a number of bowlers playing state cricket who are great swing bowlers. Chad Sayers among them.
Should we take a swing friendly team to England?
I'm well aware of my man Terry. Loved him, hence my question. Why don't we? We haven't won in England since 2001.Terry Alderman says hi
I'm well aware of my man Terry. Loved him, hence my question. Why don't we? We haven't won in England since 2001.
I think 9/10 is fair enough, if he had done it in any of the three preceding tests people would remember it for a lot longer than scoring it in a dead rubber draw. Generally I don't pay much attention to the ratings anyway.So Lisa Sthalekar only rates Cook's innings as a 9/10 because "the series is over"
Says a lot.
Muirhead has played the majority of the year in St. Kildas 2nd XI.Good to see Muirhead back and playing. He's the forgotten man as far as the ranks of international spin bowling are concerned.
He bowls the best pure leg break of any of the spinners I've seen (who are all purely one day bowlers) from an action that is genuinely Warne-like. It's the round shape of the action that give the leggie the ability to bowl a trajectory to drift the ball up while ripping spin into the delivery which is what it takes to have a sustainable stock delivery. Warne was not renowned for variation late in his career but he had 6 or 7 deliveries which he ended up abandoning due to injury so I don't think that the rounder action is a limitation.
If the decision makers at cricket Victoria had half a brain between them, and it's not clear that they do, at least in terms of producing test players, they'd dry the s**t out of the MCG pitches (or do what it takes to turn it into a spinner's wicket) and select Muirhead with Holland if they want to persist with Holland (who it would seem the Australian selectors have no regard for). I don't see how you can become a good spin bowler unless you are consistently bowling to first class batsmen (we've seen Lyon become a test bowler playing test cricket starting from a base that was hardly first class). If that means doctoring the pitches to help develop a once in a generation talent, so be it.
I reckon that Handscombe ought to take the gloves on a full-time basis as well. He would only have to play half a shield season at a time so batting at 4 or 5 and keeping is probably a manageable work load. Paine is safe for now but he's 32 and he's hardly got a stack of work behind him.
Muirhead has played the majority of the year in St. Kildas 2nd XI.
Also if you'd seen Hank keep in the long form you'd shut your trap about that very quickly. Horrible keeper.
He's far from competent. He doesn't even keep for St. Kilda when he plays there.Keeping is the most overrated skill especially if you can average 40 with the bat. Keeping can be improved and he only needs to be competent.
How much worse than Wade is Handscombe? Just out of curiosity.
He's far from competent. He doesn't even keep for St. Kilda when he plays there.
Wade is a decent 7/10. Hank is a 2/10 at best.
Wade's glovework has improved measurably. He's become a solid keeper, and was gloving them well in India and Bangladesh. It was his batting that was an issueIf Wade is 7/10 what does that make Healy or Berry? 15/10?
Wade's glovework has improved measurably. He's become a solid keeper, and was gloving them well in India and Bangladesh. It was his batting that was an issue