Yeah. Like I said earlier, deadset reckon they should've got him handling the ball after the missed stumping attempt. He was still out of his crease and just leant down, picked up the ball and threw it back to Dussey.
Yeah. In between those two moments he kind of wandered out of his creas and shaped to pick up the ball again too. It's just odd, can't say I've seen him do it before.
Not necessarily. Shoaib's 35 & was up over 150kmh in our summer just gone and I wouldn't call his current physique "athletic". I reckon extreme pace is as much inherent as anything else. There's been the odd bloke who's suddenly got fast from nowhere (Craig White and Ryan Harris two off the top of my head) but mostly the real quicks seem to arrive fully formed (in terms of speed).
Bloke looks a hack, tbh. Needs to improve to reach mediocre. Paine looks like the unholy offspring of Wally Grout and Alan Knott by comparison.
Couple of points there:
I know it's wrong to mock the afflicted, but it cracks me up how his real hair at the back and sides is drenced in sweat, but his synthetic thatch seems to be waterproof.
DIdn't see the English summer but was Shoaib as consistently up there (140Km/h+) as Lee?
Haven't seen him hit 150 once since his return. He's been a mid 140s man. Might just be me though.
Well, we use the Queen's imperial measurements up here, not having sold out to Johnny Frenchy, but he was consistently up over 90mph. Was remarkable considering his bulk.
Some of us just use metric to confuse old people tbh.
