Michael Clarke, writing in Australia’s Daily Telegraph, says his team takes responsibility for the batting in Hobart. Australia, he says, have the prefect chance to start moving in the right direction once more in the Border-Gavaskar series. When I first came into the Australian team everyone said we had a weakness against spin bowling and we did a lot of work on that. That’s what we’re doing now against the swinging and seaming ball. We’re practising as much as we can. It will take time for us to improve and…
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Mushtaq Ahmed , England's spin bowling coach, has played down the home advantage Pakistan will enjoy during the series against England in the UAE, saying his team has grown used to playing on …
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“Doug Bracewell was always going to be a tough customer,” writes Ian Snook for Fairfax Media. “He had to be just to keep up with his father Brendon. As a three-year-old he fully comprehended “line” and “length” when bowling in the nets and he understood the punishment if the ball travelled down the leg side. This lad was getting ready to play Test cricket.” Brendon is no ordinary individual and no ordinary coach. Cricket oozes out of every part of his body. A New Zealand international at the age of…
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Australia collapsed from a strong position yet again to narrowly lose the Hobart Test to New Zealand by seven runs. Going down to a good bowling attack was by no means the worst thing that could have happened to a side that has struggled like a dialysis patient waiting for a donor, says Malcolm Knox in the Sydney Morning Herald. The Australian team bottomed out two years ago, when they only just beat the two worst teams to have come here in decades, the 2009-10 West Indies and Pakistan. At…
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MELBOURNE: Legspinning legend Shane Warne said Monday he had badly burnt the fingers of his bowling hand, putting
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Bangladesh's Chittagong nightmare continued for the third successive day, as Younis Khan and Asad Shafiq prospered with contrasting degrees of assurance against moderately spirited bowling, let …
Aizaz Cheema took two wickets to lead an aggressive bowling attack as Bangladesh struggled to 5-52 at lunch on the first day of the first cricket Test against Pakistan on …
Saqlain Mushtaq, Chaminda Vaas and Makhaya Ntini talk to Mid-Day’s Sai Mohan on the challenge of bowling to Virender Sehwag. Chaminda Vaas: What can I say about this genius. I bowled a lot to Sachin ( Tendulkar), Azhar ( Mohammed Azharuddin) and other Indians, but I found nobody more difficult to stop. When he [Sehwag] gets going, he’s got the calibre to score big hundreds. He’s never satisfied. He’s a player who can make a lot of runs in whatever format or conditions….
The future for Pakistan fast bowling is bright, but the players need to improve their physical fitness, according to former fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz.
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Brendon McCullum is no opening batsman, and his talents will remain further unfulfilled while he continues in the role, writes Chris Rattue in the New Zealand Herald. His technique is too risky, too loose. McCullum, who has a decent test average by New Zealand standards, doesn’t look like an opener. He doesn’t have the application to adapt his game either. “When Justin Langer and Matthew Hayden tore into opposition bowling attacks, they did so with a sense of control. It did not look reckless,” writes Mark Richardson in the New…
