Thread: Days of the Military Medium?
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Old 10-03-2007, 10:00 PM in reply to Nostromo's post "Days of the Military Medium?"
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Originally Posted by Nostromo
But bowlers that are able to take the pace off the ball and use a bit of the seam are likely to actually benefit from the conditions. Oddly, most such bowlers are part-timers like Collingwood, Tendulkar, Kemp, Styris, Arnold, Dwayne Smith etc and I wonder how many of them will have a say with the ball in this World Cup?

In that sense, Oz might be handicapped by Symonds' limitations due to injury and not selecting White ahead of Johnson.
It's lucky that Australia has so many of them, then. Bracken, while able to bowl swing at 140kp/h, is also known for bowling long spells of mid 120 cutters with the old ball. McGrath is also able to take the pace off the ball and cut to his heart delight. Clark also, to a lesser extent.
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