How Good Is Timothy Bresnan?

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Re: How Good Is Timothy Bresnan?

Postby D/L » Tue Apr 08, 2014 12:41 pm

clubcricketeradi wrote:...As far as specialist bowlers are concerned, there are more number of specialist bowlers who have a better economy rate than him as well as more wickets per innings than him. Even some of the bowlers who have worse economy rate than 10.75 have more wickets than him.

What a simplistic consideration of events. Perhaps those bowlers' wickets and probably, therefore, their economy rates were not so badly affected by catches dropped off their bowling as were Bresnan's.

clubcricketeradi wrote:As far as fielding is concerned he is the fielder who has dropped most number of catches (3) in this tournament. I think his competitors are Sohag Gazi and Nasir Hossain of Bangladesh who may take over the record of most dropped catches from him.

It may be true that Bresnan dropped more catches than others but even good fielders drop catches from time to time and when it happens in clusters, people will seize upon them as something they think may support their argument, however weak that argument may be. At other times in the tournament, Bresnan's ground fielding was excellent, one example being the powerful, accurate throw from deep that would have resulted in a run out had Buttler not swiped at thin air.

I'd appeal for a little more thought from some of Bresnan's detractors but, in some cases, clearly this would be a waste of time.
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Re: How Good Is Timothy Bresnan?

Postby D/L » Tue Apr 08, 2014 12:43 pm

Alviro Patterson wrote:Looking at the overall tournament, few bowlers have come away with any credibility in terms of wickets and economy rate so it's not just the English bowlers who have suffered.

In regards to Tim Bresnan it's not often he leads an England bowling attack in any format, it's a massive ask for a player who normally plays the supporting role to make a big impact as a leading frontline bowler. The team selection and Broad's captaincy should be questioned more than Bresnan's playing ability IMO.

Especially Broad's hiding himself in the field at the difficult bowling times.
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