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**Official** England in New Zealand
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Smudge
Hall of Fame Member
I seriously do worry about you sometimes. The Beach Boys was a disturbing touch.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Any significance to that particular Beach Boys song?
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Well he was under immense pressure to score in order to keep his place (as always with him, really) so I thought "Don't Worry Baby" was fitting.Any significance to that particular Beach Boys song?
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
pasag
RTDAS
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Cribb: wants more Sinclair
too easy?
too easy?
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
The fact that he has a nineteen year old sister who lives in Australia is disturbingly tempting, I must say.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Dear oh dear, the levels we will stoop to these days.
Goughy
Hall of Fame Member
I still do not like the front arm. I comes down in an arc rarther than in a sharp straight line. You just feel there is an extra yard of pace and better accuracy if he pulled the arm bown in the direction the ball was going. Id not noticed before, but there were some really good shots of his feet when they were seeing if he was running on the wicket. His left foot is in a great position for generating pace. Its not the best for long term injury prevention but he has good front foot (ie pointing to 2nd slip) to bring the hips through.
I really want Broad to succeed. He is young and had natural physical gifts that are hard to replicate. IMO, he just has to sort that kink in the action out and get a few more domestic wickets.
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BoyBrumby
Englishman
HDS: Were you wearing a "Millssmo" (I think that what it said) white tee-shirt yesterday? If so, you were on telly again. I only ask because of your well-documented antipathy for that fellow you have in your avatar & wondered if it was an obscure reference to him.
If not, ignore me.
If not, ignore me.
sideshowtim
Banned
I didn't realise how poor a Test and First Class record Jamie How had. Wow.
slowfinger
International Debutant
Freaky thinking that Mathew Bell got anything at all ph34r:
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
One could argue it's a bit misleading, though. He had problems picking up Malinga on his first attempt at Test cricket IIRC and was promptly dropped after a succession of failures against mainly Sri Lanka (obviously) and a game or two against the West Indies. He averages 36.50 in Tests since his last recall though (which admittedly is only two Tests) so he's improving. The jury is very much still out on him as a Test batsman, but I think his technique quite a bit better than the Bells and Cummings of the world.
As far as his First Class career goes, averaging in the low to mid 30s isn't at all uncommon for a New Zealander. The conditions are reportedly seam-friendly or "taccy" at best so batting - and especially opening - isn't particularly easy. Apparently that has changed a bit just recently at some grounds and the scores have been somewhat reflective of that, but the point remains while looking at the context of his entire career. How averaged under 30 last New Zealand First Class season though which is far from acceptable regardless of how you look at it.