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Lancashire vs Durham - County Championship

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essex boy said:
have a think why England dont produce genuine out and out quick bowlers like Lee, Donald, Waqar, Bond etc and come back to me with your thoughts
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Because kids get taught about line and length from an early age and aren't encouraged to hammer balls down at 100mph like a scatter-gun?
 

essex boy said:
nope because the wickets 'do a bit' for you.

if you go to Aus or SA they will encourage you to ping it down as quick as u can
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Because the weather is different, and that means they prepare the wickets differently. No good having a green top in 35 degree heat in Durban or Melbourne.

All about playing to your strengths.
 
Aleem Dar said:
Because the weather is different, and that means they prepare the wickets differently. No good having a green top in 35 degree heat in Durban or Melbourne.

All about playing to your strengths.
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but the vast bulk of wickets in world cricket are flat and until we can develop bowlers to bowl on flat wickets we will never dominate in test cricket
 
essex boy said:
but the vast bulk of wickets in world cricket are flat and until we can develop bowlers to bowl on flat wickets we will never dominate in test cricket
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We're doing a pretty good job of it at the moment.

I say it again, you play to your strengths. If that means green tops then so be it.

In Bangladesh, where most bowlers are spinners, they prepare spinning pitches. In India where everyone wants to be Sachin, they prepare flat tracks. Australia, traditionally, is the only place where they prepare wickets to suit everyone.

Anyway, 15 wickets in the day. 16 is usually the cut off for the inspectors isn't it?
 
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Aleem Dar said:
We're doing a pretty good job of it at the moment.

I say it again, you play to your strengths. If that means green tops then so be it.

In Bangladesh, where most bowlers are spinners, they prepare spinning pitches. In India where everyone wants to be Sachin, they prepare flat tracks. Australia, traditionally, is the only place where they prepare wickets to suit everyone.
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but we have overtaken two sides who have lost players over the last few years.

Jaysauria and Murali are two massive players to lose

I dont see we are any better than we were in 2005. we are decent but lack star quality
 
Borthwick out. 102-7.

Let's hope the tail can stay with Benkenstein.

Or not. Thorp gone first ball.
 
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