Do England Miss The Pace Of Welsh Wizard Simon Jones ?

[Manee]

Sidebottom has looked average as of late, but he gets the returns. Left arm inswing is a dangerous tool at the worst of times. People often just don't know what to do, especially when a ball inexplicably doesnt swing.

 

[Richard]

Well yeah, but by a while I don't really remember him doing it V Aus, Sri Lanka, India in his most recent series before the last

He certainly got some of it in India. Against Sri Lanka it was mostly too damp to allow (though there was, unusually, a decent bit of conventional-swing on offer) and as we all know the atmosphere, outfields and balls in Australia at the current time do not readily lend to swing and most bowlers at most grounds have struggled to attain it (whether via conventional or reverse methods) in the last 7 years or so.

 

[Uppercut]

He certainly got some of it in India. Against Sri Lanka it was mostly too damp to allow (though there was, unusually, a decent bit of conventional-swing on offer) and as we all know the atmosphere, outfields and balls in Australia at the current time do not readily lend to swing and most bowlers at most grounds have struggled to attain it (whether via conventional or reverse methods) in the last 7 years or so.

Hesitated before posting that tbh. It's clear Flintoff can get it, but it's not really a specialty. Having two conventional swing bowlers and half a reverser in India isn't ideal.

 

[FBU]

Hesitated before posting that tbh. It's clear Flintoff can get it, but it's not really a specialty. Having two conventional swing bowlers and half a reverser in India isn't ideal.

In Mumbai
39.2 Anderson to Sehwag, OUT: Anderson strikes! Sehwag is out for a
duck! started just outside off and pitched on a length and then
reversed in sharply and Sehwag stretches out his left foot across
and is rapped in front of the off stump line, bat is behind the
pad.

 

[GIMH]

He certainly got some of it in India. Against Sri Lanka it was mostly too damp to allow (though there was, unusually, a decent bit of conventional-swing on offer) and as we all know the atmosphere, outfields and balls in Australia at the current time do not readily lend to swing and most bowlers at most grounds have struggled to attain it (whether via conventional or reverse methods) in the last 7 years or so.

I remember Saj getting a bit of reverse early on, also Vaas, in that series

 

[Richard]

Vaas you're right, but Saj I'm still to be convinced it wasn't conventional stuff. The ball was only about 15 overs or so old at the time.