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Originally Posted by Andy Mellon  Mills is probably a better ODI bowler than Franklin as if Franklin has a bad day, he'll go for plenty. In tests, Franklin's bad balls are less costly and he bowls more wicket taking deliveries than Mills, who, currently doesn't have much to him other than line & length (i.e. not enough seam or swing movement to account for good test batsmen).
Franklin is a better batsman than Mills to my mind. He even has a test century, away in South Africa to his name. |
Agreed, they would both go in my test and ODI team when fit, simply for the fact franklin offers variety and bowls wicket taking deliveries, like you stated. Best attack they would possess is Franklin, Mills, Martin + Vettori (with Oram/Styris etc).
His batting offers depth but the whole right medium fast phase at the moment, Mason, Gillespie, Mills, O'Brien, Hitchcock?! etc...very 1 dimensional and predictable, even stick Oram in that fold, although hes an all rounder who's economical 9/10.
Remember when they lost in SA a couple years ago (maybe the series where he got that maiden ton) he bowled a cracking delivery to beat the defences of Kallis over the wicket, he does that more often and stays injury free then hes a key part to this bowling attack, now Bond-less. Hope hes available for the summer tour to England as the swinging ball should do him the world of good.