NZ's Shane Bond may miss summer Tests

[Cannonball Taffy O'Jones]

RBLC, It's called Comic Sans MS. If you look at the area below 'message:' and above where you are typing the reply, just change the font from verdana to whichever you prefer - exactly the same as MS WORD. You can change the colour too and even add

[Irish Left Armer]

It will be a shame if Bond does not play, he has looked good when I've seen him in the past. Very quick too. There is too much strain on fast bowlers these days, a lot of them seem to be breaking down.

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

I see what you mean, but It can be abused, not that I'd do such a thing

[prasad]

Originally Posted by Irish Left Armer

It will be a shame if Bond does not play, he has looked good when I've seen him in the past. Very quick too. There is too much strain on fast bowlers these days, a lot of them seem to be breaking down.

yeah, latest on injury list is Akhtar. Poor chap has been critisised by everyone. Now the PCB has initiated medical inquiry into his injury.

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

All parties concerned will have to tread carefully on that issue prasad. If he was faking it, was the series rigged ?

[prasad]

Hi RBLC. Whats ur real name? Akhtar is in Bombay for a commercial shoot. This is going to make situation even bad for him. Though i dont think he faked the fall. As an Indian fan, i dont want to believe that the series was rigged. And even if it was, still Akhtar had no reason to fake injury. He could have kept performing the way he did in the entire series. he was mediocre all the time

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

Very true prasad, he didnt do alot. real name is james but keep it to yourself

[Vaughan To Run]

I would like to see Shane Bond simply to see how good he is. However, when Brett Lee arrived over here a couple of years back (as I'm sure you all remember) it was with unbelievable hype. I remember hearing he was quicker than Ian Botham to the bar and would be almost unplayable. Well he got absolutely carted and averaged about 50 in the end. See also Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammed Sami for similar examples. The player to watch is Chris Martin, who apparently loves bowling to left-handers, and we of course have 3 in the top 6.

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

He did ok againt SA did martin if memory serves

[Vaughan To Run]

Hi RBLC, how's your Dad? Yeah Martin was leading wicket taker I think, on English style pitches, a real swing bowler I imagine similar to Hoggard ie a bit short of ideas of it doesn't swing. Just had a rethought about the bowling to left-handers, he may of got this impression from bowling to Graeme Smith, who judging from last summer is a bit susceptible to the ball swinging in. Could be wrong though.