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Bring back hanging
Roebuck is the anti-somerset i'm afraid.
Mike Selvey wrote an interesting article about Johnson. Basically, with his slingy action, the moment of release not only affects his length but also his line, so timing is even more important to him than it would be for, say, McGrath or Clark who have high arm actions. Selvey reckons the timing could all click together any time – in the middle of an over some time – that Johnson won't know what he's doing different, and that once it's back, he'll wonder how he ever lost it. I guess that's why Australia will feel they have to pick him – he's their only (potential) genuine strike bowler with Lee injured.
In that case yes, an arse.
Mike Selvey specifically mentioned Thomson (he played county cricket with him) as an example of a bowler whose timing came and went but whose arm, although not high, was in fact vertical, so he didn't spray it when the timing went, just didn't bowl quite as quickly.I can suggest a big fault with Johnson's action. My theory - which I don't think is in the coaching books - is that you take any great bowler, spin, speed, slingy, non-slingy - and at the moment of release, you can trace a vertical line running up from their front foot, diagonally across the body, up the delivery arm to the ball.
Mitchell Johnson is quite a way off I think, and that will make him inaccurate. He should lean his head over.
i'm trying to find a good pic of Jeff Thompson, here's one not at moment of release but you can the lining up of the delivery arm/planted leg
I can suggest a big fault with Johnson's action. My theory - which I don't think is in the coaching books - is that you take any great bowler, spin, speed, slingy, non-slingy - and at the moment of release, you can trace a vertical line running up from their front foot, diagonally across the body, up the delivery arm to the ball.
Mitchell Johnson is quite a way off I think, and that will make him inaccurate. He should lean his head over.
i'm trying to find a good pic of Jeff Thompson, here's one not at moment of release but you can the lining up of the delivery arm/planted leg
Hadlee?Remodeled i think? I may well be totally wrong on that.
Yes. Hadlee was silky smooth. Which is why he lasted so long. That and the fact that he cut his run-up and decided there was more to bowling than speed.
Shame about the rest of the attack though.
Hadlee one end. Jeremy Coney at the other.
(Chatfield was ok, but only ok)
Hadlee?
He was a tearaway early in his career apparently (I'm only old enough to remember him after that). I think he got injured. He certainly cut his run-up considerably.
Yup. Those were my formative years in cricket. Good memories.
I got to meet the great man a coupla times, he was a true gentleman to go with the talent.
Chatfield was hilariously bad. Danny Morrison wasn't bad tho when he came thru.
Phil Hughes is understood to have been dropped from the Australian side and replaced by Shane Watson for tonight's third Test.
No official announcement has been made, but sources close to the team told The Australian the young batsman has lost his position after just five Tests and been replaced by the all-rounder.
The selectors have hit the panic button after the Hughes in the first three innings of the Test series with scores of 36, 4 and 17.
It is an incredible fall from grace for the 20 year old who starred in his first three Tests and arrived in England with an average of 69 after three stunning games on debut in South Africa, that included two centuries in his second Test.
Selectors were anxious that England’s bowlers, had found a weakness in Hughes ability to deal with the short body-line delivery after he fell to the same ball in tour and Test matches.
Ponting is convinced Johnson’s troubles lie not in his high-maintenance action but in his crowded mind and will make a concerted effort to relieve stress by using him in short, powerful bursts in the hope he can produce enough accurate balls to strike while others do the bulk of the grunt work.
Nice to hear that about Hadlee, I thought he was overly intense, set loads of targets, plans etc and found it difficult to wind down?