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Originally Posted by Tyler Durden  Which Test and which day are you going to Eric? Glad to hear you're enjoying KP, it's funny (but probably won't surprise you) that he's not everyones cup of tea over here (just isn't English......lol.....in behaviour that is, as well as the obvious birthplace).
I love watching him, we don't often in our history, have that particular style of batsman. |
It's true, Botham always stood out over here because of the power issue but overall we prefer the David Gower mould, the crisp authorative frontal defensive shot into the ground with the excellent footwork of killing the short ball dead, coupled with the quintessentail flicked wrist cover drive every three overs, put short we're still training batsmen to stay "in" rather than amass totals, hence our terrible one-day form and our poor batting against bowlers of both swings and spin merchants. Peiterson and Flintoff may be our route away from this but I doubt their style will translate to the future generations brought through by old school coaching.