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    Broad in confidence

    By Will 5 months ago Leave a comment on this post

    As Jonathan points out, Ryan Sidebottom has done what many of us feared he wasn’t capable of and lead England’s attack with verve. But my other stand-out player for the final day was Stuart Broad. He opened the attack this morning, partly because James Anderson was still sore from his injured ankle on the third evening, and bowled with fire, pace and aggression. Brendon McCullum was troubled by his bouncers in particular - quick, nasty vipers rising from just short of a length - which is no mean feat considering how in-form McCullum is, not to mention his offputting ploy of standing three feet outside his crease. Quality bowling, the like of which Steve Harmison once produced four years ago. Broad’s spell was arguably another nail in Harmison’s coffin.

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    3 Responses to “Broad in confidence”

  • James wrote:
    March 18th, 2008 at 12.25 pm

    Is it unfeasable to think that perhaps Harmison will go back to Durham and ‘learn his trade’ again for a couple of years and if he stays injury free he may find himself playing for England again. He’ll only be 31 years old by the summer of 2010 and if Englad suffer a few injuries that could be the route back in for a rejuvinated Harmison. Is his body and mind up to the task though.

    I’m not sure that coffin is completely shut just yet!

    Agreed, excellent display from Broad on the final morning. Looked a different player to the Broad of Sri Lanka (of course the ptich didn’t help in SL).

  • Marcus wrote:
    March 19th, 2008 at 3.08 am

    I didn’t see the Test, but he looked good in patches in the ODIs, and could be quite a good Sharma-type bowler for England. That frame of his doesn’t look like it can take too much punishment, though, so I hope for England’s sake that he doesn’t become anpother Simon Jones, with more time spent off the field than on it.

  • AS Gill wrote:
    March 31st, 2008 at 9.09 am

    Sharma 153,broad–who??Ohh 129, 135kmph.Also
    broad to yuvraj-6,6,6,6,6,6.Thats how people remember him.LOL.

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