6 September 2011

Anderson under bowled?

Is there any reason why Anderson isn't getting his full quota of overs these days? I noticed that he looked unlucky not to have bowled 10 overs in the match on Saturday when more expensive bowlers bowled their full quota, but it's always dangerous looking at the stats like that because you don't know who bowled the powerplay overs. I know Dernbach and, to a lesser extent, Bresnan have been identified as England's death bowlers but if that's the case I'd like to see Anderson bowl all his overs at the start of the innings unless he's having an off-day.

In the first match, Trott bowled overs 32 and 34 when England desperately needed a wicket and Anderson was left with an over of his quota left. Today Anderson bowled just 3 overs for 11 as Dernbach and Bresnan bowled 5 and 4 respectively, and went for 1o an over. I wasn't watching or listening but any clues as to why Anderson didn't bowl at least 4 overs, if not 5?

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2 comments:

Sam said...

Didn't see most of the match either, but maybe we wanted to give India at least a sniff of a chance!

Peter Lamb said...

Having watched Anderson bowl one over at the death in today's game, I would suggest that the reason he doesn't normally bowl then is that neither Anderson himself nor Cook has the first idea of the field he needs. Admittedly it was a batting powerplay over, so there were limitations on the number of boundary fielders, but to bowl a whole over of straightish length balls with neither a long off nor a long on was asking for trouble, and so it turned out.