well you can teach line and length and swing and all that..but u cant teach pace
...and that means he is a wonderful prospect at such a young age. To have that next to his name means alot, and would to him too. No one likes facing left-armers and at that pace they can be very tricky.
well yea international cricket.. i wouldn't say pace is the least of Johnson's most impressive attributes.. if he was 10k slower but had the same bounce then he wouldn't be as good IMO..
It's the movement, bounce and general accuracy that makes Johnson exciting. Not his pace. As such, I consider pace to be the least of his attributes. I'm not discounting pace as a keen attribute. I'm just saying that it's more garnish on his other abilities.
Almost anyone can swing a cricket ball. Few can trouble a proper batsmen with it.
You've just ruined your credibility with that last statement. There are no excellent left arm seamers in world cricket at the moment. Period.
If, that is, the ball can be persuaded to swing over here.yea i guess, will need the right conditions i suppose
just imagine what a handful he'd be in England ?
No bowler who bowls at 70mph will ever have much success in domestic cricket anywhere.
Which anyone with any brain knows happens all the time (and it's not as uncommon as you'd think in the domestic game, either - I'd guess more in Australia than anywhere).
Which only a tiny handful of the very best have EVER been able to do.
Err, you cannot teach line-and-length. Or rather, you can teach it only to a certain degree.
24-25 is not "such a young age".
Err, well, no more than no-one likes facing right-armers.
No, he's not. He may, possibly, be, sometime in the future, but right now he's certainly nothing more than pretty decent.
Brett Lee pretty conclusively disproves that.
Brett Lee gets into trouble when the ball doesnt swing
Explain the development of Mohammed Yousuf
No.
Not really, it's actually precisely the other way around. Lee's usually nearly unplayable when he's swinging the ball, which is one of the reasons he's much better in ODIs, where he swings it more consistently. Where he struggles, or did, particuarly earlier in his career when he had more of a problem with accuracy, is when the ball doesn't swing.
And when it does, as well.
No, he's just been incredibly fortunate for a year.
Lee has struggled plenty in my time watching just due to inaccuracy, whether or not he's swinging the ball.
Wow, an entire year of record breaking performance, and you put it down to dropped catches. Next thing you'll tell us is McGrath's just been lucky all these years in Test cricket.
