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*Official* Second Test (Lord's, London) 28 June–2 July

Uppercut

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Hilfenhaus was good and Siddle was ok
It definitely flatters him but Bollinger retired with an average of 25 back when that was really very good. CW were big fans. He was only dropped because he was unfit.

IIRC Siddle was the one we weren't keen on. He struggled to find any movement at all in the first part of his career. Kinda ironic that he later (reportedly) became the guy who brought the wobble ball to Australia.
 

Spark

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There was a depressing number of dibby-dobbers doing big numbers back in that time. Lot of bowlers that got utterly exposed when the pitches started to get better.
Butterworth was a bit of a reach on my behalf, but the most notorious beneficiary was James Faulkner. Leaving aside his white ball career, which was mostly characterised by flukes, it was embarrassingly common here to read people wanting him picked in Tests.
 

TheJediBrah

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It defintely flatters him but Bollinger with an average of 25 back when that was really very good. CW were big fans. He was only dropped because he was unfit.

IIRC Siddle was the one we weren't keen on. He struggled to find any movement at all in the first part of his career. Kinda ironic that he later (reportedly) became the guy who brought the wobble ball to Australia.
Siddle was the best of the lot during that period, other than the rare occasions Mitch Johnson turned up or Ryan Harris was fit. Hilfenhaus was ok but innocuous a lot of the time and Bollinger needed everything going his way but when it was he was a gun
 

Burgey

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Butterworth was a bit of a reach on my behalf, but the most notorious beneficiary was James Faulkner. Leaving aside his white ball career, which was mostly characterised by flukes, it was embarrassingly common here to read people wanting him picked in Tests.
#Finisher
 

trundler

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It defintely flatters him but Bollinger with an average of 25 back when that was really very good. CW were big fans. He was only dropped because he was unfit.

IIRC Siddle was the one we weren't keen on. He struggled to find any movement at all in the first part of his career. Kinda ironic that he later (reportedly) became the guy who brought the wobble ball to Australia.
I liked Bollinger in white ball stuff. Don't remember anything he did in tests and was doing off overall career impressions. I mostly remember Siddle from 2013/14 onwards.
 

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Butterworth was a bit of a reach on my behalf, but the most notorious beneficiary was James Faulkner. Leaving aside his white ball career, which was mostly characterised by flukes, it was embarrassingly common here to read people wanting him picked in Tests.
Did pretty well in his only test, and that was a batting friendly pitch. People forget he could get the odd ball up to the high 130s before his shoulder injury.
 

Spark

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#Finisher
He definitely did have some good lower order innings but the **** would come in with, like, 30 to get in 30 balls, he'd hit an entirely facile 20 in 15 that any decent lower order hitter could do and the C9 comms would go "tHe FiNiShEr DoEs iT aGaIN"
 

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