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Post by Aj_June on May 16, 2020 2:49:35 GMT
Been watching the Kayo series The Greatest and the episide on Richard Hadlee is quite interesting. While he's obviously a humble man, to hear him.say it wasn't until 1978, 7 years into his international career, that he felt like he could play. He was a Thomson style tearaway before he played county cricket and learned to bowl slower off a shorter run (my knees enforced that at a much lower level but a similar age) and from there the rest is history. 431 test wickets at about 22 a piece. Some people allege that Hadlee would not have got so much success if he played for a better team. I personally am not qualified to take part in this debate as I didn't see anything of him in his playing days and there are not many bowling footage of him that I have seen. But playing in good and bad teams have their own pros and cons. While you may get more wickets if you are bowling against better batting attack on a batting surface, you might actually also get less wickets when bowling against good batting side on bowling wickets. Because in the latter case, if you don't have good support you will not be able to exert enough pressure as a team and they will simply see you out and attack the bad bowlers.
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