Polly and Mcgrath
October 26th 2006 05:36
Hey all cricket loving fans
Forgive me for drawing up a would-be orbituary for two of the finest cricketers to play the modern game: Mcgrath and Pollock. Now hold your horses before I start to list the list of dear ones left behind, it doth grieves me to write this as we speak, and I do believe that resuurection is in place for them.
And you might ask: "what the hell is a South African bowler being given a place in this Australian cricket blog?" well, if you care to think back and reflect, these two bowlers are almost identical twins.
Both rely on freakish-inhuman-laser guided like accuracy to take wickets. Both sneeze at swing bowling, and opt for such deviations off the pitch in front of the off stumb and wait for two things to happen: blocking by batsmen leaves no runs on the board, while any itching for a drive reveals a zipping ball to stumps or edge to slips.
however, both of them have somehow had strange coincidences in their lives that renders them lenthy absences from the game: McGrath took a 7 month sebatical while Pollock has had spasms and required recovery time.
Both have dropped dramatically from form: Pollock has lost his pace while Mcgrath's forte of line and length now resembles a scatter plot of M & M's on a white table.
But, Pollock does have one facet that the African's deeply desire: a very decent jab at being a lower order all-rounder. Thats right! a lower order all-rounder. His scoring rate with the bat is averaging 20's. He gets consistent half-tons and the speed with which he strikes mirrors that of the Boer, all heart and red-bloodedness.
Mcgrath still hasn;t dropped his pace, and still clocking in regular 130kmh speeds. I would suggest he spends more time with his out-swinger while Troy Cooley is still under the coaching department, and using deviations; especially his famous slower split-finger funnel ball. Cricket can change in an eye blink and the only way to improve in to evolve.
So before I write down the address for the funeral service, please write in for any ressurection spells.
Forgive me for drawing up a would-be orbituary for two of the finest cricketers to play the modern game: Mcgrath and Pollock. Now hold your horses before I start to list the list of dear ones left behind, it doth grieves me to write this as we speak, and I do believe that resuurection is in place for them.
And you might ask: "what the hell is a South African bowler being given a place in this Australian cricket blog?" well, if you care to think back and reflect, these two bowlers are almost identical twins.
Both rely on freakish-inhuman-laser guided like accuracy to take wickets. Both sneeze at swing bowling, and opt for such deviations off the pitch in front of the off stumb and wait for two things to happen: blocking by batsmen leaves no runs on the board, while any itching for a drive reveals a zipping ball to stumps or edge to slips.
however, both of them have somehow had strange coincidences in their lives that renders them lenthy absences from the game: McGrath took a 7 month sebatical while Pollock has had spasms and required recovery time.
Both have dropped dramatically from form: Pollock has lost his pace while Mcgrath's forte of line and length now resembles a scatter plot of M & M's on a white table.
But, Pollock does have one facet that the African's deeply desire: a very decent jab at being a lower order all-rounder. Thats right! a lower order all-rounder. His scoring rate with the bat is averaging 20's. He gets consistent half-tons and the speed with which he strikes mirrors that of the Boer, all heart and red-bloodedness.
Mcgrath still hasn;t dropped his pace, and still clocking in regular 130kmh speeds. I would suggest he spends more time with his out-swinger while Troy Cooley is still under the coaching department, and using deviations; especially his famous slower split-finger funnel ball. Cricket can change in an eye blink and the only way to improve in to evolve.
So before I write down the address for the funeral service, please write in for any ressurection spells.
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