Well, you know I don't disagree with any of that, one of the few defenders of the Aussie bowling on here. The young back-up is as good as we've seen for a while too (if a little green). The problems aren't so much there, though....
Big doubts here for mine. There's a suspicion that Copeland has taken so many wickets at Shield level because he's been the beneficiary of the bowler-friendly nature of Shield wickets the past couple of years and, tbh, I share that view. Even if the bowlers do bowl relatively well (and there's question marks there), will they bowl well enough to negate the influence of the Indian batters?
In summary, the bowling's 'good' when, against the Indian line-up, in my view, it needs to be closer to 'great'.
Has two ODI tons here, though. Not Tests but they do count. And he's a far better player now, wasn't even in the Test side then.
Don't think that matters, tbh. Neither scored a ton but I watched a fair bit of the series and they didn't look out of form. Laxman in particular looked good before throwing away some potentially good scores. And I reckon Tendulkar just faced some excellent bowling. England are just too ****ing good right now.
On the plus side, I reckon guys like Mick Clarke are due to bust out some good scores. In fairness, there are a heap of unpredictable factors in this series, I could just as easily be wrong on every point above.
