what else ?
what has he done apart from taking his first ever michelle in the fist test match against Pakis, that in itself shows how very ordinary he is and makes you wonder how he got selected in the first place
look at him bowling in tandem with Katich, who is a part timer
Katich gets a bag while Hauri gets belted over the fence
Katich gets players caught behind the wicket while Hauri gets one caught forward of the wicket going for a slog
Using hawk-eye to determine LBW's is appaling imo. FFS hawk-eye is a gimmick for viewers.
Offies will always struggle on a good first innings wicket. Fact.
Doesn't matter who has been in front of him, he has done his job.
Salman Butt is going to be stoned to death
Offies will always struggle on a good first innings wicket. Fact.
Doesn't matter who has been in front of him, he has done his job.
Watch Graeme Swann for England sometime.
A fantastic offie that beats batsman with drift, spin, flight, an arm ball, and the occasional other one.
Hauritz barely turns it enough to beat the bat, and his only variation is flight and speed. How an off-spinner playing at international level doesn't have a doosra I have no idea.
Swann has been great for the last 12 months, he has done well in South Africa, taken a wicket in the first over of just about every spell he has bowled. Compare the 2 over the last 12 months. To make it easier for me, I'll just pull up 2009 records.SWANN
15 tests, 67 wickets, Average 30.22, economy 2.98, S/R 60.06
HAURITZ
13 tests, 50 wickets, Average 30.42, economy 3.05, S/R 60.00
Nothing in it between the two
Swann is not bad, but over rated. We stuffed up by not playing Hauritz in that last test in the ashes, Swann cleaned up, all of a sudden he is some sort of messiah in the spin bowling department. Other than Sydney he will get bent over in the ashes, just wait and see
Hauri no question.he's just a finger spinner and we saw yesterday the difference between a wrist spinner and a finger spinner
mind you Katich wont get 3 for 20 everytime he bowls but the difference was there for all to see
for those of us that bat, who would you rather face ?