England have a better spinner than Monty.
| Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 3 | 6 | 480 | 241 | 10 | 3/42 | 4/78 | 24.10 | 3.01 | 48.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ODIs | 27 | 25 | 1350 | 768 | 38 | 4/20 | 4/20 | 20.21 | 3.41 | 35.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| T20Is | 6 | 6 | 120 | 91 | 7 | 2/17 | 2/17 | 13.00 | 4.55 | 17.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
And she is white.
Obviously the fact she is white, and she is a she, rules out her being Adil Rashid, although perhaps not Graeme Swann.
Holly Colvin is her name, and she is also a left arm orthodox bowler.
She is about 2 foot tall, and her nickname is Monkey.
All good things.
From a spinners view, she has great flight, very good control, and she clearly tries to bowl more than one kind of delivery for 60 overs straight.
She does get a bit of spin, and she is a wicket taking machine at one day level.
Her bowling is very much in the old school finger spinner way, of bowling very slow, and let the drift and flight tempt the batswoman to a slow death.
Also she wears a similar head band to Nathan Bracken.
That is true, and not a piss take.
Yes I was watching women’s cricket.
First time ever.
And I enjoyed it.
India has a top class batswoman (I did notice they called them batters a lot) called Mithali Raj.
She is pure class, not like Partiv Patel.
A lazy and shocking runner between wickets, but boy can she wield the bat.
Dare I say it, very stylish in the Greg Chappell mode.
Women’s cricket isn’t bad at all.
True story.
You should watch i.
Another true story.
jrod – today, i watched women’s cricket for the first time too – that is, more than the pass you by surf shuffle, and more than 2 balls running. Caught a lionesses’ share of the indian innings post rain, and it’s compelling enough to write about. and of course watch. so, in a way you can watch what you write. and write what you watch. cheers to the lasses!
Holly Colvin made her debut for England when she was something like 14.Seriously.
So cricketwithballs.co.uk is now covering English women’s cricket..Hey that’s really niche.
mark, she was 15 when she played her first test. LB, someone has to. NC, well said.
Jrod, I think England could replace half the men’s team with women.
I said ‘Something like 14′ – 15 is ‘something like’ 14.Both of them are illegal for a start…