Andrew Strauss still backing his bowling attack – Cricket News Update
After being hammered by South Africa in the first Test of the series, at the Oval, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964, the England captain, has backed his bowlers to deliver the goods in the remaining two encounters of the battle.
The visitors outplayed the Poms in all the three departments to win the match by an emphatic margin of an innings and 12 runs, going 1-0 up in the series.
Apart from lauding the Proteas, some of the cricket pundits are extremely worried about England’s bowling performance, the Poms being able to pick up just two scalps in the whole match after giving away 637 runs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HM-Amla-c1557 scored a magnificent triple century,
ably supported by the other two centurions, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692.
This is quite a surprising result for the cricketing fraternity, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501.
The English captain however, still has confidence in his bowlers’ abilities to dismantle a high quality batting side twice in a match, but the left-handed opener also credited the Proteas for their brilliant show with the bat.
"We have an outstanding bowling attack. You have to give http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 credit for how they batted but I still back our bowling attack's ability to take 20 wickets on most Test match surfaces," Strauss said.
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Middlesex-c817 cricketer believes that the management does not need to press the panic button, given the same bowling unit performed so well around the world over the last 24 months. Strauss admitted that the visitors dominated the
proceedings at the Oval, but claims that Anderson and company will bounce back hard in the next match.
"Our bowling attack has huge reserves of confidence. They have taken 20 wickets pretty much every time they have played for the last two years and this game doesn't change that for me," the England captain added. “They are all fine.
They are a bit weary having spent two days in the field, but there are no causes for alarm at this stage."
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