"'The Answer to the question: why Steyn didn't get a longer spell? In Serengeti, The Best lion of herd takes guard of the territory and the other stronger males take care of the hunting.' Interesting analogy, Vin! Sri Lankan fans will be a little confused, though, since the lion is their emblem."
This is while SA bowlers have caused mayhem in Sri Lankan line-up. Morkel has grown into a real menace now. It is a pity Kallis has to be given a bowl, he often spoils the mood. Perhaps because the faster bowlers today are not in the habit of bowling longer spells. We need statistics on this.
On the other hand, I wonder if batsmen around the world always played-and-missed and top-edged as much as they do now. I wonder if it is that they don't let the facts get in the way of a good story so they tell us how enormously the batsmen dominated as they scored big. Perhaps they did not, perhaps they were edgy throughout. I do not not know, but retain my doubts. What I do know is that openers around the world have had a job to do, and they are perhaps the weakest link in the Test arena of today. Once the new ball specialists go, there is absolute mayhem down below. Goes on to show what Ponting owes to Langer and Hayden, and what it meant for Gavaskar, an opener, to be the first man to score 10,000 runs.
This is while SA bowlers have caused mayhem in Sri Lankan line-up. Morkel has grown into a real menace now. It is a pity Kallis has to be given a bowl, he often spoils the mood. Perhaps because the faster bowlers today are not in the habit of bowling longer spells. We need statistics on this.
On the other hand, I wonder if batsmen around the world always played-and-missed and top-edged as much as they do now. I wonder if it is that they don't let the facts get in the way of a good story so they tell us how enormously the batsmen dominated as they scored big. Perhaps they did not, perhaps they were edgy throughout. I do not not know, but retain my doubts. What I do know is that openers around the world have had a job to do, and they are perhaps the weakest link in the Test arena of today. Once the new ball specialists go, there is absolute mayhem down below. Goes on to show what Ponting owes to Langer and Hayden, and what it meant for Gavaskar, an opener, to be the first man to score 10,000 runs.
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