Mc Grath "picks" unnamed Batsman...
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its all mind games really. Each bowler goes into each series putting the same emphasis of getting each batsmen out.
He does it more as a psyche-out tactic and it seems to have worked well in the past so why not keep it.
if a bowler came into a series with the intention of targetting just one batsmen then they'd have to have rocks in their heads.
He does it more as a psyche-out tactic and it seems to have worked well in the past so why not keep it.
if a bowler came into a series with the intention of targetting just one batsmen then they'd have to have rocks in their heads.
Pretty stock standard stuff from McGrath. He's good enough and smug enough to do this regularly and not have it blow up in his face.
Interestingly, one of the few times I recall recently where McGrath hasn't "picked" out an opposition batsman in a series was before the New Zealand series last season - and that was one of his very few poor series.
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Glenn McGrath
v New Zealand 9 tests 30 wickets 5/32 best 32.56 average
v England 18 tests 98 wickets 8/38 best 20.04 average
He has heard nothing but good things about English batsman obviously.
v New Zealand 9 tests 30 wickets 5/32 best 32.56 average
v England 18 tests 98 wickets 8/38 best 20.04 average
He has heard nothing but good things about English batsman obviously.
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Seems like it isn't only your cricketers that are easily psyched out. :addyourownsmilie:
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Using my ESP powers I can exclusively reveal that the batsman in question is Michael Vaughn.
My view on McGrath & I've thought this for a long time is that we should refuse to play any sort of shot to his stock short of a length on off stump delivery-i've read this is what NZ did to him in that series with good effect.In the last Ashes series the computer thing they(Hawkeye) have that shows where every ball pitches & whether they would hit the stump revealed that in a typical day's play McGrath was only bowling about 6 deliveries that would have hit the stumps (& & this is on not particularly bouncy English pitches) so make the long streak of p*ss change his line & length or have a frustrating time of it.
My view on McGrath & I've thought this for a long time is that we should refuse to play any sort of shot to his stock short of a length on off stump delivery-i've read this is what NZ did to him in that series with good effect.In the last Ashes series the computer thing they(Hawkeye) have that shows where every ball pitches & whether they would hit the stump revealed that in a typical day's play McGrath was only bowling about 6 deliveries that would have hit the stumps (& & this is on not particularly bouncy English pitches) so make the long streak of p*ss change his line & length or have a frustrating time of it.
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