He will still have 3-4 fruitful years considering he is 31 year old. 140-150 more wickets, I guess.
If NZ could handle a touch of spin back then, it would've been this one:
Yes I was overreacting but Herath has been a shell of himself this year.. without him firing our bowling looks very average.
I've watched a few spells and he's still regularly beating batsmen in the flight and with his arm ball. I think people are kinda Vettori-ing him now.
Can't really evaluate when there's a ****-steyn on the opposition.. He did bring him on after Morkel got Sanga out.. supposedly because Steyn can take out a new batsman easier..
SA have played him well, but there was an article about how it looks like he's lost some of his revs.. possibly his back issues not allowing him to really rip the ball.. I recall Moeen Ali had more revs on the ball in the Eng tour which seems wrong..
he wasn't ever someone that put a huge amount of revs on the ball.
100% support ball tampering on subcontinental surfaces. The reverse was not just due to that though.. That barrage of short pitched bowling was partly to rough up the ball.
Not sure if serious.. 2nd test is at SSC.
Was going to post/ask the same thing. Doesn't make sense (unless it has to do with the captaincy - I'm clutching at straws).
