Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Stuart stops trying to be Freddie

Going by his approach in the first test and the first innings of the second test, I was wondering whether Stuart Broad was trying to emulate Flintoff.
You know bowling 'the heavy ball',  'hitting the deck', 'pounding the batsmen unrelentingly' and other such wonderful sounding jargon used by Messrs. Shastri and Co. It's actually good that Shastri is at home, or i'd be sick of hearing that Broad is tall, Friedel De Wet is bowling his heart out(gross) and Jacques Kallis is a class apart.

Alright, Coming back to Broad, it's better to see him change the length that he's been bowling. I think it's better if he sticks to being a fast bowler who moves it a bit off the seam, rather than try to bounce people out.
The fuller length does actually working for him. Plus, I'd like to see Kallis leave a few more deliveries which send the stumps cartwheeling,

Now all that's left to do is quit the annoying teenager impressions and get rid of the ridiculous hair cut and ,Voila!, we have a decent enough fast bowler. England need one.

2 bouncers:

Sidthegnomenator said...

Did you catch him a few months back with the facial hair? He even looked like Freddie!

pRAFs said...

oh, he can grow a stubble?

well... must've looked like freddie when he was 14 or something