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*Official* Fourth Test at Chester-le-Street

King Pietersen

King Pietersen

International Captain
Trott getting back to his usual form. Love watching him when he's in this sort of mood. Striking at 80 without looking like he's trying. Hopefully he'll go on and make a big one!

Edit: FFS. Great timing of that post. KP needs to go big here!
 
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91Jmay

International Coach
And there we go. Nothing ball, pokes at it. Trott is becoming his own worst enemy, where is his fabled ****ing patience. ****.
 
benchmark00

benchmark00

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Btw, I re-iterate, how ****ing **** is sky sports. I don't think we've seen a catch live this series.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
King Pietersen said:
Trott getting back to his usual form. Love watching him when he's in this sort of mood. Striking at 80 without looking like he's trying. Hopefully he'll go on and make a big one!

Edit: FFS. Great timing of that post. KP needs to go big here!
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A+ effort
 
MW1304

MW1304

Cricketer Of The Year
Trott throws it away with a leg side strangle, his two specialties. TC's serial reverse-jinxing works.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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Maximas said:
Well Swann didn't have much of a chance to bowl into Starc's footmarks at OT, as they didn't really develop plus we batted first, I recall Haddin being bowled cutting, but not much else, Lyon yet to dismiss a RH as of now though (in the series) so we don't really know if there is an advantage either way.
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Because of his action, Swann is ten times the bowler when he goes around the wicket. This is a big part of why he's so much better to lefties but he's much better around the wicket to right handers as well. This means that either the footmarks aren't going to be a factor at all for him or - as we've seen throughout his career - they entice him into bowling over the wicket to get the most out of them for little to no overall gain in effectiveness, or even sometimes at an overall loss.

That said, Lyon bowls a little too straight to really take full advantage of footmarks either IMO but they definitely help him more than they help Swann. And that's before we even touch on the fact that the difference in spin the two bowlers get is greater off the normal part of the pitch than it is out of the footmarks; they negate the spin advantage.
 
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