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Old 14-12-2005, 07:24 PM in reply to Andy Mellon's post starting "UPDATE: I have an interview arranged by..."
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If you could track down the famous quote to the effect that England's selectors would overlook Shaun Pollock as "too slow" (I think it came from Bicknell) you could frame a nice question of what he makes of England's tendency to go with raw pace instead of with bowlers who can actually do something with the ball.

One thing I'd really like his views on, however, is the link between medium pace bowling and wicket-keeping. More specifically, I'd like to know whether (particularly following Jack Russell's late-career focus on being more aggressive and looking for stumpings off pretty nippy medium pace bowlers) he thinks medium pace bowling only really comes into it's own when it's done in partnership with a great 'keeper (in the manner of Bedser, who could apparently bowl at Bicknell's sort of pace, and Evans, who by all accounts never stood back to him).
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