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*Official* Fourth Test at Headingley

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Broad gets a fifer without contributing anything of significance again. Sure for the English selectors to persist with him till the next Ashes.
The five wickets that make up for the fifer a decent contribution, tbf
 

oitoitoi

State Vice-Captain
Would have thought weight training would be advised, as it will increase the muscular stability of his back. That and say swimming. Think I read he ditched the weights and started doing pilates.

Nice to see Broad not celebrate. Worried he might do a Brett Lee India 600 odd for 5 chainsaw celebration.
Lol must have missed that.

All athletes should swim, it's the best exercise possible by a distance, builds core strength brilliantly. But he should augment that with weight training, isometrics and plyometrics.

Looks like Broad's saved his career for the time being, pity as he'll blatantly go round the park at the oval.
 

oitoitoi

State Vice-Captain
The five wickets that make up for the fifer a decent contribution, tbf
A contribution that will have 0 effect on the game, and tbf he's bowled some real dross in this match. Time for the selectors to make a tough decision and drop him, in fact they should have done this months ago.
 

oitoitoi

State Vice-Captain
He's not been worse than any other bowler, but these are meaningless wickets. Where was this when he was bowling absolute trash two feet outside off all morning when wickets were needed?
AWTA. This like hitting a hundred in a game where 700 plays 600, it's fairly insignificant.
 

Son Of Coco

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
6 for Broad...wanted to see that in the stands but never mind.

Well batted North!

Going to have to stay up longer now as this afternoon's session could be interesting.
 

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Don't profess to know much about weight training, but his weight would be light and progressively get bigger over time, right? Hence he'd lose muscle mass?
Given Watson has been built for some years, he should have muscle memory, six months worth and any muscle lost will just be put back on once he gets back into the groove. But diet is everything in regard to muscle development, so he may have just given up on the whey. Looks fit but he use to be an absolute brick**** house, comparable to a rugby union back.
 

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
North played well, and I think Broad bowled best out of all the quicks by a fair distance. Getting a fair bit of rubbish here still, and they aren't wickets that will have a huge effect on the series, but without him you'd probably still have Onions trying to bounce out Ponting who is about to bring up his 450.
 

dontcloseyoureyes

BARNES OUT
Given Watson has been built for some years, he should have muscle memory, six months worth and any muscle lost will just be put back on once he gets back into the groove. But diet is everything in regard to weight training so he may have just given up on the whey. Looks fit but he use to be an absolute brick**** house, comparable to a rugby union back.
Fair enough, thanks.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
He's not been worse than any other bowler, but these are meaningless wickets. Where was this when he was bowling absolute trash two feet outside off all morning when wickets were needed?
He was obviously asked to bowl there by Strauss, I'm not going to hold that against him. I disagree with the notion of any wickets being meaningless anyway. Sure enough the game looks beyond lost but the players shouldn't be thinking that and therefore they were still wickets which needed taking.
 

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