Blogs Bowling Standards in the Ashes: being fresh does seem to matter
July 18th, 2009 by kapoorIf you watch the ongoing Ashes series for just about 10 mins or so with pacemen from either side bowling, one thing becomes significantly clear — no matter what time of the day it is, the speed guns remain continuously around the 86+ miles per hour mark. And if the combination of Mitchell Johnson and Siddle from Australia or Anderson and Flintoff from England is in operation, watching ten to twelve balls continuously in the 90+ mark seems so normal. Even someone like Stuart Broad is bowling around the 87 mph-mark with ease. The point I am trying to make is, that these are the bowlers took little or not part in the IPL2. It seems that the break they took while most of the other bowlers were trying to fire in the block holes of batsmen has borne its fruit. I believe that playing non-stop in the T20 can be taxing and may be this is a hint that resting your top bowlers for non-international games is a good idea. But then, BCCI wouldn’t buy this theory, would it?
