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***Official*** South Africa In Australia
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thierry henry
International Coach
*heart* Jacques....nice to see him get a good reception
thierry henry
International Coach
zomg Gibbs, awesome
kingkallis
International Coach
Gibbs and Gayle, world's most talented but highly under achieved players!
Brilliant
duffer
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
thierry henry
International Coach
Coincidentally I believe Gibbs and Gayle are, if anything, overachievers, due to the same obvious technical defect
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Gibbs back in his pomp was a terrific test batsman, and this was in the 90s too.
He does have a technical defect, but I think in the longer form of the game Gibbs is far superior to Gayle.
thierry henry
International Coach
imo neither of them have a shot to a full ball on middle stump
duffer
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Dude.....
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
I always believed Gibbs' problem was a ball on a good length cutting in between his gap between bat and pad.
thierry henry
International Coach
I always notice with Gibbs and Gayle that, where a lot of players hit a ball on the stumps through midwicket, they try to hit it through cover. Obviously, if you bowl anything outside off-stump to these guys they are in their element. If you bowl a "normal" slightly outside off line, you get murdered. It surprises me that international bowlers don't pick this up more quickly. Conversely, whereas most players would treat a full length middle-and-leg ball as meet and drink, Gibbs and Gayle don't really play the on-drive, so they're a bit stuck on that one.
thierry henry
International Coach
Hamish Marshall and Nathan Astle were the same btw. I think Marshall eventually got found out, he was always liable to be bowled or lbw, but it amazed me how often bowlers bowled poorly to Astle....seriously apart from the last few years of his career he had no front-foot leg side shots