Sachin was his only Test wicket, bounced out. Crowd went deathly silent. Also flown in for the 2011 World Cup semi-final, and took 1-39 off 10, including Sangakkara. Had a fearsome 1-2 punch of the in-swinging beamer, in-swinging yorker combo that earned him many club/FC wickets.
Injury
I remember him bowling Andrew de Boorder at the Basin with that yorker. Came around the wicket to him. Left armer who could bowl in the 140's. Apparently he eventually played for the Black Caps because Vettori faced him in a domestic game and rated him.
Yeah, Robinson's stroke play is really good to watch. Good partnership from Parkes and Todd for Otago too.
The weird thing is on his debut he clocked 147 (immediately putting Mark Richardson into a fits of excitement), but the fastest I ever saw him bowl in any game after that was about 142 and usually mid-high 130's. Weird to think that Boult would come along a couple years later and bowl at the same speed and yet no one ever thought of him as being especially quick because of his insane control and skill (and I suppose because Mitchell Starc was floating around to put things into context).
Clarke and Fisher
He was much quicker when he played club cricket for Takapuna as an early 20s year old...scary quick, given he had no idea where it was going. Nightmare to face in nets. He eventually dialed it back in order to get better shape - at high 140s he bowled along and across the wicket, but slowed down and developed an inswinger on his good days.
