![]() When the new ball is taken late in the day, it is Ollie Robinson who is given first use of it and Stuart Broad the second. ![]() The most effective examples of swing bowling are in fact provided by the Ashes debutant Josh Tongue, who claims both Australian openers with massive in-duckers. Anderson bowls 15 wicketless overs in three spells of unstinting accuracy but strictly limited threat. Ladies and gentlemen: you know how this story goes.Įxcept this is how it goes. There is a cool wet breeze in the air and a greenish tinge to the pitch. And days like this, when the sky hangs low over London and the lights are on and the Lord’s stands hum tautly with their familiar hubbub, could have been purpose-built to gild it. There are things he does that we probably don’t fully understand yet, that science may not fully understand yet.īut somehow the more you refute a myth, the more stubbornly it clings on. ![]() There are scrambled-seam deliveries, deliveries designed to land on a certain part of the seam, deliveries where the seam is pulled downwards in an attempt to get it to swing before it moves off the pitch. Instead he probes the surface for clues, finds solutions, manipulates the seam position in his fingers and wrist with the miniaturised precision of a surgeon. His natural length is much shorter than many assume. And above all the fact that Anderson hasn’t really been a classical swing bowler, in the commonly-understood sense, since his 20s. This is of course a myth that got debunked some years ago: one that ignores his average of 27 in Asia, 27 and 23 on the last two Ashes tours, the wobble-seam clinic that helped win England the 2012-13 series in India. India fans, in particular, delight in dismissing Anderson as a grey-sky bully who has spent two decades padding out his stats in overcast English conditions.
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