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Comment on How good is Clint McKay? by Dean @ Cricket Betting Blog

Dean @ Cricket Betting Blog — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:12:34 +0000

He looks more a ‘pool bowler’ to me, not a first choice, a squad player when someone is injured or when the test bowlers are being rested. The sort of player you try out in the ODI’s etc.

England has a pool full of them as well, Dernbach, Woakes, Meaker.

Apart from Malinga, there is hardly a good death bowler anywhere to be seen these days. Yorkers to most English and Aussie ODI bowlers are like some sort of illegitimate child, never to be spoken off or seen.

Comment on How good is Clint McKay? by Poor Man's Hussey

Poor Man's Hussey — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:26:06 +0000

I’m with you on McKay. Remeber when Birt almost hit him into Bass Strait in the BBL? What happened next? Beamer that went further. Then the same dose. Somehow he doesn’t get pulled off and gets Birt out. But I remember more that Birt made him look like a fifth grader.

Comment on How good is Clint McKay? by Clancy

Clancy — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:47:22 +0000

Well, he ain’t a death bowler, but then who out of the Aussie seamers is? A collective allergy to yorkers is quite an ‘issue’ for the bowling coach to sort out.

Comment on Hi Angelo by SMUDGEON

SMUDGEON — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:29:29 +0000

I think I was in the Angelo-Doesn’t-Exist camp for a while too. You feel he really is the genuine article, and those things usually don’t exist, except in shitty stories in Boy’s Annuals from the 1940s.

Imagine a team of Ponting, Vettori, and Matthews: three humourless bastards who hate losing. The press conferences would be priceless…

Comment on Hi Angelo by Aditya Shukla

Aditya Shukla — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:25:30 +0000

Great post Guys. I hope rohit sharma deleivers for India.

Comment on Hi Angelo by Sri Lanka Cricket boy

Sri Lanka Cricket boy — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:13:55 +0000

Great post to tribute such young player.

Comment on Rahul “eyespin” Sharma by Jrod

Jrod — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:37:15 +0000

Alok, I have a mental lock when it comes to Chandra, I’ve forgotten him in almost every legspin piece I’ve ever written. Perhaps his skill is making people forget about him, every time you play him it’s like a new time.

Comment on Rahul “eyespin” Sharma by Sheikh

Sheikh — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:10:11 +0000

Hey JRod…. ditch boring India.
Write about Pakistan bashing the pommies will ya.

Comment on Rahul “eyespin” Sharma by Alok Prasanna Kumar (@alokpi)

Alok Prasanna Kumar (@alokpi) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:49:30 +0000

Of course no mention of Bhagwat Chandrashekhar who turned having a nearly fatal disease (polio) into a superpower (having a right hand that moved at the speed of light)… Like an actual superhero

or of Abdul Qadir and the magic goatee that actually sent the balls across the pitch as he just moved his arms around.

or Stuart MacGill who’s in fact a secret hulk-type character getting angrier with every ball that the batsman refuses to get out to, until he bursts into a baggy green rage in the middle of the pitch . Most batsmen got themselves out to prevent the rage.

Comment on Rahul “eyespin” Sharma by damithts

damithts — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:19:26 +0000

What about the wiry genius that was Upul Chandana ? …