Nate
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***Official*** South Africa In Australia
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Precambrian
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Could you please avoid such eye-hurting smileys? It is not funny when it is so jarring.
dontcloseyoureyes
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Precambrian
Banned
Talk to the head, the tail replies.
And if you noticed, I was not referring to your post. I couldn't quote that god-awful-excuse-for-a-smiley.
dontcloseyoureyes
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Me and Nafe are one.
If you hadn't noticed.
If you hadn't noticed.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Maybe I should make myself clearer, I am not saying that Harris is the second incarnation of Irani but that he bowls like Irani after he changed his action in 2003.
pup11
International Coach
Haha, awesome, the best smiley ever!!!
pup11
International Coach
Dussey should have made his test debut in the SCG test AFAIC, but he is very close, one or two more bad games for Symonds and he should surely take his place in the absence of Watto.
Harris and Irani might have same action, but there is a huge difference in their pace.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
No one is disputing that - Harris is one of the world's quickest bowlers if the ODI was not an anomaly. This being said, he looks pretty average to me, he didn't get much movement and didn't rush the opposition batsmen. Hilfenhaus, on the other hand, looks an absolute gem to me.
Simon
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No not by a long shot, obviously Lee/Clark/Siddle/Hilfenhaus/Bollinger/Tait/Bracken/Noffke are all in front of him imo at least but I guess the selectors see him as someone who may be useful so they want to see what he's got. He's had a pretty reasonable season so it's a good time to give him a chance.
Top_Cat
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Yeah, I totally see it too. Interestingly enough, he was barely medium-fast when he first played for SA, Manou used to stand up to him. He had an action more like Tony Dodemaide. Only when he took the Irani route and started hitting the gym did he put on a turn of pace and, really, he's one of the fittest and consistently quickest bowlers in the country right now. Apparently it was entirely by accident; in a 20/20 match, he just followed-through with his action a bit and started zipping the ball through 10-15km/h quicker.
I know the commentators went on about his lack of movement but he was never really a big swinger of the ball. Swings the new one around a bit but generally tries to hit the deck. He hurried the Saffies with a few balls but I thought he was a bit too full yesterday generally.
FaaipDeOiad
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Recorded this and watched it this morning. How good was Bracken's death bowling? Amazing stuff.
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
Bowling not suited to Test cricket. Most of success in ODI's since his recall in the super series in 05 has come from his ability to bowl off-cutters in the middle of the innnings & death bowling.
When he tries to be genuine swing bowler bowling @ 130-135 ks, he is pretty pedestrian as was shown in the 05/06 summer.
Precambrian
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He's come a long way since then. He has shown that in domestic cricket. He certainly deserves a go ahead of Bollinger.
pup11
International Coach
Yup, when he played for the Redbacks he struck me as one of those blokes who can bowl his overs decently and hold his own with the bat in the lower order, but his bowling come of age after he moved to Queensland, not only has he been bowling quick but whenever i have seen him bowl nowadays he has been seaming the ball nicely too, but as i said during the game, his selection makes no sense, he has had a mediocre ranger cup this season, but he has been on fire in the SS games, so i don't think it was great thing to pick him in the ODI side on the basis of strong performances in FC cricket, Dougie Bollinger would have been more sensible replacement for Siddle, Bollinger can swing the ball and also brings the left handed variation to the table, but Harris is not as piss-poor as most are thinking he is.
pup11
International Coach
Not sure about that though, Bollinger has been awesome with the ball in FC cricket for the last two seasons in the row and deserved his chance in the SCG test, but i entirely disagree with aussie, Bracken bowls cutters and mixes things up in ODI cricket, because that what good bowlers do in that format of the game, but to suggest he isn't capable of adapting his bowling to the longer format of the game is not true, his FC class record in recent times show that he's clearly as good as any other fast bowler in Australia atm.