I just cannot understand why, a player of his standing and experience, such as Leach, especially as a finger spinner as opposed to a wrist spinner, lacks the control to put it on the spot. That is how you build pressure and the Pakistan batsmen don't have to take any risks when he keeps offering them freebies.
I just cannot understand why, a player of his standing and experience, such as Leach, especially as a finger spinner as opposed to a wrist spinner, lacks the control to put it on the spot. That is how you build pressure and the Pakistan batsmen don't have to take any risks when he keeps offering them freebies.
He's a poor bowler really. Doesn't have the turn and guile to baffle batsmen, but also can't do the frustrating role either, building pressure or holding an end like an Ashley Giles could
I just cannot understand why, a player of his standing and experience, such as Leach, especially as a finger spinner as opposed to a wrist spinner, lacks the control to put it on the spot. That is how you build pressure and the Pakistan batsmen don't have to take any risks when he keeps offering them freebies.
He's a poor bowler really. Doesn't have the turn and guile to baffle batsmen, but also can't do the frustrating role either, building pressure or holding an end like an Ashley Giles could
I don't follow county cricket & can only comment on what I see during Tests & One dayers......but we dont seem have "spinners" but simply slow bowlers. Or have I been lucky to have just seen players like Shane Warne rip it past the off stump time & time again.
I just cannot understand why, a player of his standing and experience, such as Leach, especially as a finger spinner as opposed to a wrist spinner, lacks the control to put it on the spot. That is how you build pressure and the Pakistan batsmen don't have to take any risks when he keeps offering them freebies.
He's a poor bowler really. Doesn't have the turn and guile to baffle batsmen, but also can't do the frustrating role either, building pressure or holding an end like an Ashley Giles could
I don't follow county cricket & can only comment on what I see during Tests & One dayers......but we dont seem have "spinners" but simply slow bowlers. Or have I been lucky to have just seen players like Shane Warne rip it past the off stump time & time again.
You ain't wrong mate A big part of not producing spin bowlers of test quality is to do with the way the county championship is scheduled.
Jack Leach gets to 100 wickets in 50 bowling inns, the same number of inns as it took W Akram, C Vaas, S Akhtar, R Herath, M Starc, K Maharaj to reach 100
Jack Leach gets to 100 wickets in 50 bowling inns, the same number of inns as it took W Akram, C Vaas, S Akhtar, R Herath, M Starc, K Maharaj to reach 100
One has to take into account though the fact that Leach will have bowled a lot more overs in those 50 innings than most of those bowlers. Leach has 102 career wickets @ 33.75 and an economy rate of 2.95. Wasim Akram, for example, took 414 wickets @ 23.62 and E/R of 2.59 and for a direct comparison with a spinner, Herath, took 433 wickets @ 28.07 and an E/R of 2.80. Only twice in his career has Leach picked up more than 6 wickets in a match.
In this series Leach has figures of 7-344. By comparison, the debutant, Abrar, has 9-142 in this match alone. For the final Test and especially if we win this one, I would like to see Rehan Ahmed being given his chance, probably instead of Jacks, just to see how he sits compared to not just Leach but also Abrar in potentially spin friendly conditions.
Can’t see Ahmed batting above 8 though so fitting him in alongside 3 seamers and Leach is difficult.
Not sure that we will play four seamers again if Stokes is fit to bowl - in this game Anderson, Robinson and Stokes have bowled just 10 between them. Stokes plus two other quicks with Foakes coming back to bat at 7, especially as Pope not coming out in the top 5 today suggests that he has struggled to cope in these conditions and bat at 3. Jacks only bowled 4 overs himself.
As I say, should we win this Test then that effectively makes the final one a dead rubber. Ahmed is also potentially a very good all rounder and already has a First Class ton to his name despite having only had half a dozen innings. We won't get a better opportunity to blood the lad.
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A big part of not producing spin bowlers of test quality is to do with the way the county championship is scheduled.
carry on running to the airport and go home
a run out in test cricket
unforgivable
shocking
brain dead
straight red
That is a catch and a half
One has to take into account though the fact that Leach will have bowled a lot more overs in those 50 innings than most of those bowlers. Leach has 102 career wickets @ 33.75 and an economy rate of 2.95. Wasim Akram, for example, took 414 wickets @ 23.62 and E/R of 2.59 and for a direct comparison with a spinner, Herath, took 433 wickets @ 28.07 and an E/R of 2.80. Only twice in his career has Leach picked up more than 6 wickets in a match.
In this series Leach has figures of 7-344. By comparison, the debutant, Abrar, has 9-142 in this match alone. For the final Test and especially if we win this one, I would like to see Rehan Ahmed being given his chance, probably instead of Jacks, just to see how he sits compared to not just Leach but also Abrar in potentially spin friendly conditions.
As I say, should we win this Test then that effectively makes the final one a dead rubber. Ahmed is also potentially a very good all rounder and already has a First Class ton to his name despite having only had half a dozen innings. We won't get a better opportunity to blood the lad.
Pope pack your bags and head off with Crawley