Where Bowlers Look
ISSUE 19 MAY 2009 Cricket Australia Ambassador Where Bowlers Look and Southern Stars Bowler ore than thirty years ago, Northcote all-rounder Now, this was well-known in Melbourne club Delissa Kimmince in action (now Fairfax columnist), Brendan McArdle, received a cricket and a source of mirth to all except the You can bowl last-minute call-up to make his first-class cricket debut. eventual 273 batsmen he dismissed in first grade. MIn the second innings of the match at the Adelaide Oval, he But, it does raise a point: where should a bowler a spot on the wicket. Perhaps, but the spinner has to contend them, trap them opened the bowling with good friend, Ian Callen, and took three look when he prepares to deliver the ball? Or, as McArdle with another variable - the batsman’s feet. lbw, have them wickets as Victoria beat South Australia outright. seemed to prove, does it really matter? Former Test spinners Shane Warne and Greg Matthews are Nothing unusual except the looks on the faces of the Cricket Australia’s coaching guide, Australian Cricket Coach, two advocates of teaching young spinners to concentrate on caught behind South Australian batsmen including rising star, David Hookes, advises the bowler to run up, “head steady, eyes fixed on the an area of the pitch and working on specific plans to combat – whatever. as McArdle reached the wicket. For, in his delivery stride, the target”. But, the “target” isn’t actually defined and, of course, it’s batsman leaving their crease. strongly-built swing bowler’s head pointed to mid-on and his not always the stumps.
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