Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Nonetheless, as a rule there is something in the suspicion that batsmen are generally given far more rope to hang themselves with than seam-bowlers are.
MSP was a different case because of both the "you must have variation" nonsense and the fact that he was a cult-hero who had to become obviously terrible to be dropped else heads would roll.
(And before anyone starts telling us that selectors should do their job whether they get sacked for it or not - would you apply that principle? I think not)
MSP was a different case because of both the "you must have variation" nonsense and the fact that he was a cult-hero who had to become obviously terrible to be dropped else heads would roll.
(And before anyone starts telling us that selectors should do their job whether they get sacked for it or not - would you apply that principle? I think not)