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Goughy

Goughy

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Days of Grace said:
I was really surprised by Bedser. He looks about as quick as Paul Collingwood. Must have been a special bowler to take all those wickets at that pace.
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I see cricinfo lists Bedser as medium-fast. That surprised me. Growing up, everything I read put him firmly in the medium camp. - nothing more. I don't think anyone put him much quicker than Gooch or Butcher.

On that note. Rob, do you have many of Gooch's Test wickets on vid? I'd love to see a compilation.
 
Days of Grace

Days of Grace

International Captain
Goughy said:
I see cricinfo lists Bedser as medium-fast. That surprised me. Growing up, everything I read put him firmly in the medium camp. - nothing more. I don't think anyone put him much quicker than Gooch or Butcher.

On that note. Rob, do you have many of Gooch's Test wickets on vid? I'd love to see a compilation.
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So how did he take over 200 test wickets?
 
Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
Days of Grace said:
So how did he take over 200 test wickets?
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By being a good bowler, simple as that, imo. I think it is a mistake to think that the modern bowlers who bowl 70mph (Collingwood, Ganguly, Pollard etc) are the most skilled at doing so, most are part-timers. If you look at Chaminda Vaas at the end of his career, he bowled spells at approximately 70mph in Test cricket and batsmen genuinely struggled.

I think it was a lower standard of cricket back then, but I also think Bedser would have made a fair few (at the very least) Test batsmen struggle if he'd played these days.
 
Bahnz

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Virender Shewag is right up there with Adam Gilchurch in the all time ranks I hear.
 
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Butbutbut, McGrath doesn't swing the ball! He's only straight up-and-down!!

(apparently)

But seriously, where's the yorker he castled Sohail with at The Gabba? The **** was on 99, hitting them well and had his off-stump removed by a reverse-swinging nightmare ball.
 
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How good the lead-up to the second one, though? Just got progressively fuller with balls that went away/in/away/in and you could see Smith getting toey as McGrath's line got tigher. Then rather than going away again, threw in the in-swinger when, by Smith's shot, looked like he was feeling for the one going the other way.

Just so good. Shows you how much more important it is to have a plan and build pressure than to go for the magic ball all the time.
 
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