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''If It doesnt Swing''

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I have to agree with him. Just as well you have Anderson who can swing the ball first up and reverse swing it later on making him a very good test match bowler. Gough's comments if anything are more of a bad reflection on our other bowlers who dont swing the ball at all such as Broad.
 
rentaghost said:
I have to agree with him. Just as well you have Anderson who can swing the ball first up and reverse swing it later on making him a very good test match bowler. Gough's comments if anything are more of a bad reflection on our other bowlers who dont swing the ball at all such as Broad.
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Broad is Englands best bowler by a distance
 
essex boy said:
Broad is Englands best bowler by a distance
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Despite his thoroughly inept performance today he is the best of a bad ODI bunch of quicks. He was a disgrace today and he was the one bowler with bounce in his armoury that could have made it really uncomfortable for them.

Hes miles short of Anderson as a test match bowler as his record proves.
 
Andy.SAFC said:
But he's not a swing bowler, so should still take wickets when it's not swinging. So why doesnt he?
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unfit today, had a dicky belly

the vast majority of wickets we have played on over the last 12 months have been conduvice to swing bowlers. Whilst being able to swing it, he has a lot more strings to his bow
 
rentaghost said:
Despite his thoroughly inept performance today he is the best of a bad ODI bunch of quicks. He was a disgrace today and he was the one bowler with bounce in his armoury that could have made it really uncomfortable for them.

Hes miles short of Anderson as a test match bowler as his record proves.[/QUOTE]

oh please. Yet another who watches 12 months of the ball zipping all over the shop on tailored made Jimmy wickets and gets carried away.
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essex boy said:
unfit today, had a dicky belly

the vast majority of wickets we have played on over the last 12 months have been conduvice to swing bowlers. Whilst being able to swing it, he has a lot more strings to his bow
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He passed a fitness test, so should have been fit enough to perform to the top of his game.
 
essex boy said:
rentaghost said:
Despite his thoroughly inept performance today he is the best of a bad ODI bunch of quicks. He was a disgrace today and he was the one bowler with bounce in his armoury that could have made it really uncomfortable for them.

Hes miles short of Anderson as a test match bowler as his record proves.[/QUOTE]

oh please. Yet another who watches 12 months of the ball zipping all over the shop on tailored made Jimmy wickets and gets carried away.
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They have both played shitloads of test now all over the world. Anderson currently is a dsitance ahead of Broad as a test match bowler - his record proves it. Even Broad and his dad would agree.
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essex boy said:
unfit today, had a dicky belly

the vast majority of wickets we have played on over the last 12 months have been conduvice to swing bowlers. Whilst being able to swing it, he has a lot more strings to his bow
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A lot of test match conditions are so its important to have a top class exponent of those conditions. We arent hjust talking about the WI in May we are talking about reverse swing at Adelaide and opening spells at Melbourne and Sydney.
 
rentaghost said:
A lot of test match conditions are so its important to have a top class exponent of those conditions. We arent hjust talking about the WI in May we are talking about reverse swing at Adelaide and opening spells at Melbourne and Sydney.
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Australia have had monsoons all summer, which is why you saw houses floating in Brisbane
 
...what we need to do is develop bowlers that 'chuck it' like Tait, Malinga, Johnson, Lee, Steyn etc for sub continent cricket.
 
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We seem to have forgotten how to bowl in limited overs cricket. They had the yorkers, off cutters and slow bouncers off to a t last year in the T/20 WC.

Very poor all round today in the field. The batsmen have done their jobs, 300+ twice and another score which would have been in excess of 300 in 50 overs. But the fielding has been rank and the bowlers have let themselves down.
 
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