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Originally Posted by Aurelius  Well the latest is that Bollinger's been added as Hilfenhaus has been ruled out through injury. I thought Bollinger should have been there in the first place.
And I totally agree about Katich- all the bowlers really need to do is bowl staright at the stumps, and he automatically leaves himeslef exposed to bowling and LBW. It's surprising to me that no one's really tried to exploit this obvious weakness outside the SCG- instead they just bowl further outside the off stump and play to his strengths. |
Bollinger injured his foot late in the Pura Cup season, I thought that was why he didn't get selected.
Obviously I was wrong.
And I will be interested if old "shuffles" (Katich) technique holds up on a seaming English wicket. For cripes sake we gave Katich a very prolonged shot in the Australian side a few years ago prior to his now exagerated step beyond the off stump.
Did anyone look at the form line of the type of players who score heavilly in the domestic competition. Michael Bevan, Darren Lehman, Greg Blewett, Justin Langer etc.........post their international careers.
Katich is not exactly breaking any new ground here.
He has just developed a technique more adapt at scoring more heavilly off lesser bowlers on mostly a slow and low pitch.
And he has done that by negatively adapting his technique to face quality bowling on better pitches.
If he had tried his shuffle against Brett Lee in a Sydney club match, he would have been lucky to see out an over.