An issue of confidence perhaps. I notice Flintoff has always been an ecomical bowler who hits the splice of the bat but wasn't all that penetrative. When he started to pitch it fuller, he starting taking major poles. Had an injury run and is now back, bowling economically again, although starting to get on the improve quite quickly. Maybe once he can trust his body, he'll start bowling that fuller length again.
I reckon a fuller length, yokeresque delivery is a higher percentage ball against top order batsmen than tail enders.
Thats the first Ive ever heard. I would think that if you bowled 6 out of 6 balls on the stumps, a tailender whos looking to slog would more than likely miss one and be bowled. The criticism that is levelled at England's bowlers for not bowling enough at the stumps at tailenders is a fair one IMO, because tailenders are not going to edge perfectly shaped outswingers to the slips very often. I can perhaps understand if you bowled a couple of bouncers and then bowled a full delivery on the stumps, but in general you have to try to hit the stumps in order to get the incompetent tailender out (and Harris, Steyn, Nel and Ntini all fall into this category).
Yes, a shock weapon, it's only leathal if it's used occasionally. And 1-10 in test? Pfft, more like 15+ in my opinion.
Which is the equivallent to 60 - 100 times per test match Jake which is way to many, then it would be overused imo. Think before you post dude.
Please stfu or leave, you are pissing me and many others off. Or am I haveing to leave?
Tbh, the way you two argue, no one would mind if you both leave. When you're not arguing, you're good posters.
So true, those 12 posts have been good
Is that sarcasm of an actual statistic?
Yep, and that's precisely why it's so annoying that he's not done it more often TBH. Flintoff can bowl an absolute beauty of an inswinging Yorker and that'll get top-order, never mind tail-end, batsmen out almost every time. Even without the inswing, against tailenders for me you should just search the blockhole near enough every ball. They might middle the odd one if you give them a Half-Volley, but you're going to knock them over quicker than you will by not aiming at the stumps. Tail-enders can miss low Full-Tosses easily enough too.
Even so though 12 yorkers per bowler is more then enough in my opinion. Ten at the most but probably around six or seven is the best amount for a bowler to be bowling in my opinion.
1 yorker every 30 balls = 1 every 5 overs. Assuming the average bowler bowls 30 overs per innings, that's 12 per match.
12 attempts at a yorker, and assuming only 20% come off you get about 2-3 sucessfulo Yorkers and if the batsmen blocks even half of those anyway you end up with only one wicket from a yorker per Test match
1 yorker every 30 balls = 1 every 5 overs. Assuming the average bowler bowls 30 overs per innings, that's 12 per match.
sarcasm mateIs that sarcasm of an actual statistic?
Better than the zero which you often get currently.
honestly. Just post, get on with it, stop arguing with each other like little girlss