I feel like you’re arbitrarily putting bowlers into boxes when they should be on spectrums. Every fast bowler is a mix of pace, bounce, swing, reverse swing, seam and control. I’ve never seen a bowler who exclusively swung the ball and never found a bit of seam or bounce. You’re criticising a type of bowler that just doesn’t really exist.
It's actually lack of bounce that got him. Both balls that hit him were obviously lower than he expected. This seems to be a common pattern with batsmen being hit. Starc hit several batsmen on a similarly slow, though much flatter pitch at Manuka earlier this year, with deliveries that were not as high as anticipated. Think McGrath hitting Lara too, and Langer ducking into a not particularly short one from Ntini.
He was also in a lot of pain from his arm which might have impaired his decision making.
Absolutely the best thing, especially if they're swinging it at a high pace so you get the combined effect. Seam movement can be devastating, sheer pace is always adrenaline inducing, but swing is when you get the real mind games.
Stuart Binny 4-6 v Bangladesh
That's about it. I reckon he wanted to prove how hard he was an wanted some kind of revenge. He stopped batting in the bubble and was baited into settling a vendetta. Yet if he was wearing an arm guard it would have saved him a lot of pain and the consequences that followed.
He should never have stayed on. You don't make good decisions in pain, and being hit there hurts a heck of a lot. Go get some ice on it and come back in at the fall of the next wicket or something. Cummins handled Archer almost serenely and Siddle stuck in there well enough. But the observation that the ball was lower than expected stands.
I can see the concerns about Burn's technique, but he can bat down the order and knows how to ton up in tests. Dropping Patterson was ludicrous, and it was ludicrous that he had to wait so long to be selected in the first place considering the alternatives we've tried.
I know. It sucks, because after the first test I was beginning to mount up a just a little bit of hope that we could win this.
The Patterson decision was ludicrous, instead we have Mitch Marsh wasting space as he is not going to get picked.
England and Australian batting lineups are not good enough. Smith was the difference but now he is gone they are pretty evenly bad with Warner and Root both out of form.
He'll take him apart. The bounce being up and down is what got him at Lord's. You'd rather face a really fast blokes at the WACA or Gabba than a deck like the last one which is up and down.
