It has to be said that so far Eyelids has looked as dangerous as bambi.
Perhaps I’m being unfair to bambi.
But a point needs to be made.
He does not look like a test match bowler today.
You could argue nerves, a flat pitch and an extremely disciplined South African line up haven’t helped.
This is the slowest I have ever seen him bowl, and by far the most erratic.
At this pace, you can’t afford to be erratic.
On paper he has bowled as well as Broad, and he probably has on the field as well, but Broad is a foetus.
Take one look at Pattinson’s eyes, if you can, and they show a man of many years.
He is lucky if he bowls 3 testing balls a spell, and Vaughan clearly does not see anything he likes.
Every spell he bowls the pressure is lifted, and he does not have the weaponry to danger set batsman on this kind of pitch.
Right now you’d argue this is going to be Eyelids only test.
And he is bowling like he has already accepted it.
I have to admit my complete surprise to see Pattinson get a run for England. He looked mediocre for Victoria last year, and well short of first class standard. How he managed to get into a test team is completely beyond me.I feel he will join other such luminaries as Jason Gallian, Martin McCague etc very quickly.
Stuart! Haven’t seen you round these parts for a while.
Well back Stuart, I remember you from such cricket blogs as History of Cricket. If i had to rank the Victorian bowlers on performance in all 3 comps last year. mcgainsiddlenannesdentonharwoodwisemckay and then pattinsonAnd he still made the English team.
Don’t forget party boy Giddons in the list of great English test bowlers.During his early snorting years, he was coach of some Sussex public school First XI.Drawn to play the local comp school.”Who are we playing this Saturday coach”"Boy, we’re playing the peasants.”
I thought McCague was all right, though looking at his Test record it seems that he didn’t do too much. I’m surprised he only got three Tests. Possibly I’m biased towards the West Australian….
Bring back Andy Caddick!
Pattinson’s International career will temporarily end after this test match.