by Durhamfootman » Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:49 pm
It might be the point of the experiment. Force bowlers to learn how to bowl with it. Now English conditions are very different to Aussie conditions, but perhaps the idea is that something will stick when England are touring overseas.
Of course that's rather negated by the absence of established England bowlers like Robinson, Anderson, Wood and Stokes. Of the future England bowlers, Potts missed the first round of kookaburra because his first match was played almost in the winter, Cook is missing the second for some reason. Leach and Bashir are not getting to bowl with it and Hartley got to bowl one over, so if the experiment is meant to get England bowlers used to bowling with it....... they aren't
All a nonsense, really, but I guess it is an experiment to see if can help at some point in the future, but the way it's being tested is typical ECB.... ill considered and illogical...... throw an idea at the wall, see if anything sticks... if it doesn't, just keep doing it until eventually the law of averages suggests something will.
Ruin the game on the off chance that one day they get to say I told you so
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