Being a legspinner, it’s in my nature to have contempt for all offspinners. After all, finger spin is an inferior artform to wrist spin - like comparing checkers to chess. As Gideon Haigh puts it, offspin is cricket’s rubbish skill. Legspin, when administered correctly, is a delightful combination of drift, flight, spin and variations that conspires to bewilder and confound the batsman...
Old doorknobs Hauritz can breathe easier this week. His “rest” hasn’t led to the much anticipated moments of brilliance from his replacement – Steve “armchair ride” Smith. Admittedly Smith is a panther in the field, and injections of youthful virility are very much T20. However his occasional moments of brilliance are not yet at parity [...]...
Cricinfo continue to dole out the legspin love (and no Hewy, legspin love is not creepy, it’s a beautiful thing). This time, Christian Ryan lobbies for Bryce McGain to play in the Ashes and empathises with his pain at Newlands:
There came a moment - 5.1 overs into his Test debut was the moment - when you stopped worrying about what might happen to Bryce McGain’s next delivery and you s...
We’re less than 50 days away from the Ashes and Australia have named their touring squad. Here is my pick of the top XI batting order plus the second fiddles:
Phillip Hughes
Simon Katich
Ricky Ponting
Michael Clarke
Michael Hussey (demoted one spot due to lack of form)
Marcus North
Brad Haddin
Mitchell Johnson
Brett Lee
Peter Siddle
Stuart Clark
And the other guys left to carry the kit bag...
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