TumTum
Banned
Only Flintoff was able to expose it. Anderson got a lucky leg side glove and in the recent series all his dismissals were to good length balls.
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Spark
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That's often how it goes with good short pitched bowling - it messes up your footwork and means the full ball is infinitely more dangerous.
TumTum
Banned
True, that's how Flintoff got him out the 2nd time. But in the recent series, the short ball had absolutely nothing to do with his dismissals. It was just good seam bowling (+run out).
Spark
Global Moderator
No, in this series, the glaring problem was his complete inability to score what almost any other left hander would term free runs - delivery after delivery on his pads or hips.
TumTum
Banned
Just because he couldn't score on the leg side doesn't mean that brought about his dismissal. It's not like he got frustrated and played rash shots. He got out on the defense just outside off-stump because of accurate line and length bowling.
Spark
Global Moderator
What else would you call his dismissal in the first innings at Melbourne? And at Sydney?
adub
International Captain
Mostly it was because his head had been ****ed up with dopes trying to change him. Once he got D'Costa to tell him to ignore those ****wits and just play his natural game the runs started flowing again. He will probably look ugly his whole career to the purists, but I have no doubt he's a 10,000 run test player.
Spark
Global Moderator
Being picked whilst woefully out of nick didn't help at all tbh.
Lostman
State Captain
Re
The top 7 is pretty much set, especially after P.jaya's batting in Eng, Chandimal really has no place in the test line up currently. Only selection I couldn't care for is Herath.
Tbh i was actually a bit pleased with the squad
The top 7 is pretty much set, especially after P.jaya's batting in Eng, Chandimal really has no place in the test line up currently. Only selection I couldn't care for is Herath.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Andre was the first member to post any meaningful info about him but he only beat you by a couple of days and your first post on him contained the
emoticon, so points to you there. Interestingly though, Kylez mentioned him before both of you as Copeland coaches his little brother.
Nate
You'll Never Walk Alone
Andre was the first member to post any meaningful info about him but he only beat you by a couple of days and your first post on him contained the
EDIT: Pretty rude of me to make you do the work, but what about O'Keefe?
Nate
You'll Never Walk Alone
Spot on Howe. His selection in the 'A' squad to Zimbabwe was his first longer format higher honours. As well as playing in some LO stuff there, he played in the All Stars 20/20 at the beginning of our summer and in an OD Match against the Lions aswell, because good FC stats means he must be good at the other formats too WAIT A MINUTE
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/466000-post38.html
EDIT: Pretty rude of me to make you do the work, but what about O'Keefe?
The same bloke also called Hastings to play for Australia some five years before his FC debut amongst his eight posts. I found that particularly interesting given Hastings wasn't someone who was actually rated very highly at grade level even after that post.
Spark
Global Moderator
Fix'd.