Australias One Day/T20 Bowling line up
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:03 am
Is it just me or is Australia's Bowling attack at a real cross roads at the moment and getting exposed alot more often than what we'd like.
For me there are two pretty big concerns being
1- People unable to consistently swing the new ball for more than a few balls.
In the past we always had a bloke like bracken, fleming, reiffel coming in into the breeze/at the other end to our gun (mcgrath, merv, gillespie) and made a very good opening combo asking different questions of the batsmen. At the moment we have probably Mckay and Coulter nile as our best opening attack (johnson for mine has done his best work in ODI's bowling first change when it's not swinging and he angles them across the rightys) For me this is too similar espescially on decent bouncy pitches. McKay is a gun on pitches like Adelaide and the SCG and will do well at the 20/20 world cup but isn't worth a pinch on a GABBA or WACA or MCG as has been shown in this years big bash and ODI's. From there is Hazelwood who looks like a bowling machine, as much as I like siddle reckon he is the same in ODIs, faulkner who seems to go the journey everytime I watch him bowl, Cutting who is a batting allrounder these days.
2- Death Bowling- the ability to bowl yorkers I had a discussion on another forum, and noone still can convince me we have one bowler in the country (apart from brett Lee) who can consistently shut out a game with yorkers. I also still believe yorkers 5 inches outside off is the ball of choice to keep the runs down at the death but noone seems to be able to/try to do it. Last night again was a case in point..hazelwood was atleast trying to bowl them full but couldnt execute to Bopara (until the last ball which was a perfect yorker and he only got 1) and Dan Christian was embarrassed trying what he thought were tricky of cutters that kept going out the park..terrible. They nearly lost it needing 20 an over!
Can someone give me a name or two that can do one or both of the above jobs?
I'm quite happy with the spin options FWIW. Doherty a smart bowler and maxwell a lot like a dave hussey with his side spin difficult to get under.
regards
Stumps
For me there are two pretty big concerns being
1- People unable to consistently swing the new ball for more than a few balls.
In the past we always had a bloke like bracken, fleming, reiffel coming in into the breeze/at the other end to our gun (mcgrath, merv, gillespie) and made a very good opening combo asking different questions of the batsmen. At the moment we have probably Mckay and Coulter nile as our best opening attack (johnson for mine has done his best work in ODI's bowling first change when it's not swinging and he angles them across the rightys) For me this is too similar espescially on decent bouncy pitches. McKay is a gun on pitches like Adelaide and the SCG and will do well at the 20/20 world cup but isn't worth a pinch on a GABBA or WACA or MCG as has been shown in this years big bash and ODI's. From there is Hazelwood who looks like a bowling machine, as much as I like siddle reckon he is the same in ODIs, faulkner who seems to go the journey everytime I watch him bowl, Cutting who is a batting allrounder these days.
2- Death Bowling- the ability to bowl yorkers I had a discussion on another forum, and noone still can convince me we have one bowler in the country (apart from brett Lee) who can consistently shut out a game with yorkers. I also still believe yorkers 5 inches outside off is the ball of choice to keep the runs down at the death but noone seems to be able to/try to do it. Last night again was a case in point..hazelwood was atleast trying to bowl them full but couldnt execute to Bopara (until the last ball which was a perfect yorker and he only got 1) and Dan Christian was embarrassed trying what he thought were tricky of cutters that kept going out the park..terrible. They nearly lost it needing 20 an over!
Can someone give me a name or two that can do one or both of the above jobs?
I'm quite happy with the spin options FWIW. Doherty a smart bowler and maxwell a lot like a dave hussey with his side spin difficult to get under.
regards
Stumps