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Andrew Slack (58)
Wella everybody's heard about the Bird etc.
You're not actually that concerned which side the ball lands on when you're doing that. Reverse swing relies on the ball being pretty roughed up in general so the tactic of bouncing the throws in on the pitch is just to make the ball rougher, faster.
You keep shining one side but in general the ball is getting more and more roughed up. Eventually it should start reversing when the original rough side becomes particularly roughed up and the air stops acting on that side of the ball as it did early on.
It's a tactic straight from the Pakistan play book.
I'm OK with roughing up the ball so long as it doesn't lead to outright scratching/gouging or rubbing things on the ball that aren't sweat. After all, the ball hits the pitch and often the ground nearly every delivery and looking after the ball to get it to reverse is a skill in itself. You can't make it go the other way by beating the crap out it, otherwise it would reverse every time it got old.
Should cop a match and some cash, but he was not alone. The carry-on by a few Aus players over that call was embarrassing.Hazelwood charged with dissent & takes the early guilty plea. Match Ref Broad to impose a sanction after its all over tomorrow (mid-afternoon, I would think).
Should cop a match and some cash, but he was not alone. The carry-on by a few Aus players over that call was embarrassing.