no our bowlers are fine,its a good bowling unit guys like Oram,Tuffy and mills have shown alot of promise for the future.Australia dont have eny fast bowlers in there playing XI at the moment there guys can only bowl max of 140k's but they bowl good line and length and thats all our bowler need to learn to do, speed is useless if your bowler dont bowl the right channels
Line and length is no doubt the most important, but it is not so useful if the batsmen get used to it and build a partnership. They can then take advantage of the lack of pace. McGrath is a role-model for accuracy, but batsmen such as Razzaq, McMillan, Cairns and now Sehwag have been hitting him around for lots of runs. Pace is difficult to play unless the batsmen are used to it. There is little time to react. Moreover, if a few quick ones are mixed, it keeps the batsmen guessing. On dry pitches with nothing for seamers, it's the faster bowlers who are more effective. Seam and swing can make things tougher, as long as conditions favour them.
Ideally, the pace attack should have two bowlers who stick to a tight line and length, while a third can attack with pace, or movement. Or two attacking bowlers and one line/length bowler.
How about these bowling options?
- Cairns
- Bond
- Vettori
- Tuffey
- Sherlock/Davis/Burtt/Butler
- Franklin
- Harris
- Oram*
- Styris*
The last two are not strike bowlers. There is enough variety in the attack- two fast bowlers, one slightly-faster-than-medium pacer with seam movement, one left-arm swing bowler, a left-arm spinner and a multi-purpose bowler who can bowl slow-medium, leg break and off-spin. And of course, three medium-pacers to stick to a line and length. Oram and Martin are not likely to do much as strike bowlers, so other options should be considered, such as the new pack of pacers in the news.
