Watson's layoff & consequences

[Quagmire]

Firstly Johnson is a young bowler, and secondly he has a better record in ODI cricket than say a bowler like Clark. Left arm Fast bowlers that can swing the ball are hard to find. Out of the Australian contracted bowlers his record at this time in his career he is up there with some very good bowlers, also teams are scoring more runs nowadays.


Johnson - 18 matches, 26 wickets at 27.88, bb 4/11, Econ 5.33, SR 31.38, 2x4wi

Now look at these bowlers at the same stage of there careers.
McGrath - 18 matches, 22 wickets at 27.54, bb 4/24, Econ ?, Sr ?, 2x4wi
Bracken - 18 matches, 29 wickets at 20.27, bb 4/29, Econ ?, Sr ?, 1x4wi
Gillespie - 18 matches, 23 wickets at 31.56, bb 4/26, Econ ?, Sr ?, 1x4wi
Lee - 18 matches, 29 wickets at 22.82, bb 5/27, Econ ?, Sr ?, 1x5wi
Kasprowicz - 18 matches, 24 wickets at 32.25, bb 3/50, Econ ?, Sr ?

[acker]

Originally Posted by Quagmire

Firstly Johnson is a young bowler, and secondly he has a better record in ODI cricket than say a bowler like Clark.

I think Clark will be a lot harder to deal with on these low West Indies pitches than the bouncy Aussie ones. Plus one of the keys to modern ODI bowling is changing bowlers often and not letting the batters get a good long look at them.
I think unfortunately Johnston is bowling something to simular to what Bracken is.

[Quagmire]

I would not agree with any of that, Clarks main weapon his his hight an bounce were in the West Indies he would not get any help from the pitches, and secondly Clark bowls like McGrath right arm robot. Bracken and Johnson bowl very differently just because they are both left arm pace bowlers does not mean they bowl the same.

[acker]

Originally Posted by Quagmire

I would not agree with any of that, Clarks main weapon his his hight an bounce were in the West Indies he would not get any help from the pitches, and secondly Clark bowls like McGrath right arm robot. Bracken and Johnson bowl very differently just because they are both left arm pace bowlers does not mean they bowl the same.

And I dont agree with any of that
McGraths record in the West Indies shows that up and down tall right hand quicks like him do find the Carribean pitches favorable, and probably the closest bowler Australia has in style to him "Stuart Clark" will also.

As for Bracken and Johnson I think the facts that they are both Left hand tall medium fast bowlers draws a lot of simularities in itself.