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    Does the law about intimidatory bowling need to change?

    England and Australia have spent the last four days hurling bouncers at each other. England repeatedly bounced Nathan Lyon when he could barely stand. Jimmy Anderson was lucky to leave the crease today with nothing worse a few bruises. The umpires did nothing, presumably because according to the...
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    Bowling action -- is there a rule about this?

    I bowl right arm medium pace from very close to the stumps. Bowling over the wicket I deliver the ball from above the stumps. If I drop my arm at all, the delivery point can actually be outside leg stump. A batsman yesterday complained bitterly about this and seemed to think it wasn't legal...
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    Umpiring question

    Ball hits the batsman plumb in front and loops up to a fielder to be caught. As the umpire, you're certain that it was going to hit the stumps, but not sure whether there was an inside edge. In other words, you're sure it's out, but you don't know if it was LBW or caught. Assuming no DRS, what...
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    Bowling "off the wrong foot"

    I see quite a few bowlers with unorthodox actions described this way, but has anyone really done it? Is it even possible?
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    Umpiring conundrum

    This happened in a club match at the weekend. Bowler has a straight run-up coming directly behind the umpire, then jumping wide at the last minute to bowl right arm round the wicket. Batsman asks the umpire to stand back from the stumps, as otherwise he's unsighted until the delivery stride...
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    Would a combined XI from this series include any England players?

    Root vs Smith is the only one I'd call England's way and even that is close. Mark Wood was admirable but I don't think you'd pick him ahead of Cummins, Starc or Boland. The only real weak points in the Aus line-up were Harris and Carey. But Khawaja would be an easy pick ahead of any of the...
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    Great performances by injured players

    Tim Southee's 5-for in the current Test match was all the better for the fact that he was carrying a groin strain. Not to mention that it was on a rank turner in a country where swing bowlers aren't supposed to prosper. Thinking also of Andrew Flintoff bowling England to victory on one leg in...
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    Shane Bond vs Frank Tyson

    Both, at their time, the fastest in world cricket and, at their peak, among the most unplayable bowlers ever. Both had careers cut cruelly short by injury. Bond: 18 Tests, 87 wickets at 22.09, strike rate 38.70. Tyson: 17 Tests, 76 wickets at 18.56, strike rate 45.40. Who would you pick?
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    What changes will England make for the second Test?

    Surely they can't persist with this hopeless batting line-up? Hameed has to come in for one of the openers -- probably Sibley. If Pope is fit, does he take Lawrence's place? Will they play a spinner? Will Woakes be fit? Sam Curran looked very exposed as part of a four-man attack. He was...
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    Can you coach pace?

    I've often heard it said that raw pace is something that you either have or you don't, and that it's not possible to develop it through coaching. Is that true? If so, why would that be so? Is it that people who can bowl fast have some sort of physiological difference from the rest of us? There...

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