Cummins still has work to do to be as good as McGrath
LOL... I just looked at the number of dislikes on that video. Allan Donald's All-time XI video on YouTube too similarly suffers from a huge number of dislikes (and that too without any clickbaity title).
Interesting to see that his wickets against England were mostly from either surprising them with slightly shorter stuff or getting it to come into both the left and right handers. But then against India and SL it's mostly getting the outside edge. Wonder if it was a change in his line of attack or whether it's just the respective weaknesses of the batting sides.
He's a very special bowler. Gets something out of even the most lifeless tracks. He's one of the main reasons England won't win a test here again when they next tour.
It's probably the latter and the line they planned to bowl at the different sets of batsmen. He, Haze and Starc have got to the point now where they just give you nothing. Starc getting on board with that way of bowling, along with Haze being about 5% better than he was a couple of years back is what's made them so good atm. Though it was interesting inthat Test doco one of the quicks - may even have been Cummins - said Lyon was the best and most important bowler in the side by a mile. I can get where he's going with that, because if he's capable of bowling long tight spells even on day one, it lets the quicks go about it from the other end pretty much as they please.
Am I right in saying that England have only won 3 games total in their last 4 tours to Australia?
amir/sreesanth would have been proud of those no balls. What a ****ing huge no ball and not getting called is the ultimate lol. I guess thats the way it was back in those days
Against India they were also massively let down by Starc
They weren't really no balls according to the rules back then. Where you ended up didn't matter as long as you landed your back foot behind the bowling crease (in line with the stumps). Bowlers would land and then drag the back foot along the crease to get that extra foot or so.
The no ball rule was only changed in the 60's IIRC. Before then it was a back foot no ball rule.
Yeah, all of them in 2010-11. Next year it will be a whole decade since they won a match here. Embarrassing really, given they tour regularly.
Yeah Starc lifting his game has made a massive difference tbh. That and Haze being back to his best. Thought he was a bit off in the 12-18 months leading up to the Ashes.
That is pretty terrible. Even during the 90s-00s when they were getting thrashed every Ashes they still usually won 1 game a series