Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Reply #2211 –
130-135 is plenty quick enough if you've got the control to go with it & are either hitting the seam, or getting late swing. As we've seen in the past, our batsmen have very little idea on how to play the moving ball...no matter what speed its delivered at !
As for rules on short pitched bowling leading to poor technique in recent years.....I'd go even further back to the development of protective equipment (helmet really). Batsmen are quite prepared to wear a knock on the scone these days as they know (mostly) they're going to be protected. This has led to a lot of players having very little idea of how to counter attack, or even evade the bouncer. I'm certainly not suggesting that helmets are a bad thing, they had to happen, but we see less & less players who are great instinct players of the short ball (the likes of Ponting).