Alastair Cook not disappointed with Stuart Broad’s bowling slump – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SCJ-Broad-c2465 and hopes that the pacer will soon regain stunning momentum. Broad could not take a single wicket to the losing cause against Sri Lanka yesterday
at Lord’s. The tourists won the 3rd ODI by 6 wickets.
After two consecutive victories, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 led the 5-match series 2-1. In the 2nd ODI on July 1, 2011, Broad gave away 70 runs but remained wicketless. The pacer bowled 10 overs in the 3rd ODI and conceded 52 runs without a wicket again.
Broad’s constant failures have drawn profuse criticism from different circles of the English cricket lovers, who are questioning his position in the team, despite the fact that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 have a bunch of quality pacers. The critics are also challenging Broad’s
recently attained T20I captaincy.
On the contrary, Cook, the newly appointed captain, thinks differently. He is of the view that Broad’s aggression and passion is sufficient for the English even if he does not take wickets.
Talking to the media, Cook said, “I think it's just one of those things. In a couple of overs when he was bowling aggressively at the guy who got a hundred, he hit the gloves and got the ball to bounce up. He had a short-leg in, and they just kept avoiding
him.”
He further told, “He overstepped the mark. But when he bowled aggressively he made it uncomfortable - that's what Stuart does well. Broady's always played that way. That's part of what's made him get so far in the game so quickly.”
Broad himself confessed some days back that he did not want to sacrifice his bowling aggression for the sake of captaincy and his http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Main-c73911 focus was his pace.
The pacer’s aggression cost him with 50 percent of his match fee in the 2nd ODI as he lashed out at an umpire during the match.
The 25-year-old remained off-coloured in the Test series as well. He took a few wickets for a lot of runs and proved to be an expensive bowler. But the English bowling coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-James-Saker-c52896, was hopeful of the bowler’s comeback.
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