Craig
World Traveller
Firstly I'm no fast bowling or batting expert, so spare me from the lions please 
The reason for the thread is that it is interesting watching Johnson bowl over the wicket to right handed batsmen in the recent Test series against Pakistan, and he gets a lot of them out caught behind, and often playing at balls that probably in hindsight they could of left alone. But I want to know how much of it is really good unplayable wicket taking bowling or bad batting technique, and one Johnson has been able to find flaws in and take advantage of.
It was shown on Ch 9 that Johnson gets really close to the stumps, and with his action, he pushes the ball across the line of off stump and drawing batsmen into a defensive shot and they end up nicking the ball behind. On the replays it shows that the batsman could of left the ball since it was going past off stump.
Technique?
After seeing the the replays and the Ch 9 hawkeye, and from where were a right handed batsman would stand, and even picturing it several times in my head, I can see why a batsman would be drawn forward to play a shot they probably shouldn't play. Then again this also tells me they don't know where their off stump is. It also looks as though the batsmen look square on in their stance, or to explain it better, as if they are facing a right arm bowler bowling over the wicket, and I recall when for instance when Michael Vaughan went on his golden run scoring spree in 2002 against India and Sri Lanka, he face quite a few left arm bowlers, and he had opened up his stance a lot more, and was able to score a lot of runs. It should be noted though, that none of the bowlers that Vaughan faced, were what I would call 'shock' bowlers like Johnson is, nor were they as quick or got as close to the stumps as Johnson does.
FTR Vaughan faced: Vaas, Zoysa, Perera (you know, the one that has a very dodgy action), Zaheer Khan, and Nehra.
Just want to know what other people thought. For me it is a combination of good bowling as well as poor batting.
The reason for the thread is that it is interesting watching Johnson bowl over the wicket to right handed batsmen in the recent Test series against Pakistan, and he gets a lot of them out caught behind, and often playing at balls that probably in hindsight they could of left alone. But I want to know how much of it is really good unplayable wicket taking bowling or bad batting technique, and one Johnson has been able to find flaws in and take advantage of.
It was shown on Ch 9 that Johnson gets really close to the stumps, and with his action, he pushes the ball across the line of off stump and drawing batsmen into a defensive shot and they end up nicking the ball behind. On the replays it shows that the batsman could of left the ball since it was going past off stump.
Technique?
After seeing the the replays and the Ch 9 hawkeye, and from where were a right handed batsman would stand, and even picturing it several times in my head, I can see why a batsman would be drawn forward to play a shot they probably shouldn't play. Then again this also tells me they don't know where their off stump is. It also looks as though the batsmen look square on in their stance, or to explain it better, as if they are facing a right arm bowler bowling over the wicket, and I recall when for instance when Michael Vaughan went on his golden run scoring spree in 2002 against India and Sri Lanka, he face quite a few left arm bowlers, and he had opened up his stance a lot more, and was able to score a lot of runs. It should be noted though, that none of the bowlers that Vaughan faced, were what I would call 'shock' bowlers like Johnson is, nor were they as quick or got as close to the stumps as Johnson does.
FTR Vaughan faced: Vaas, Zoysa, Perera (you know, the one that has a very dodgy action), Zaheer Khan, and Nehra.
Just want to know what other people thought. For me it is a combination of good bowling as well as poor batting.
