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There's only one "big boy" in test cricket and that's South Africa. They only seem to get 2 match test series as well. Australia should be up there after beating South Africa but they are too erratic. England may have just recovered but they are well behind, their performance in the West Indies...

Can you let us know what varieties you are trying to bowl ball by ball? Whether deliberate or not there is a mix of leg breaks, topspinners and straighter ones in the video. Without that I'd say that the varied follow through is a concern. Different variations normally means your bowling arm...

Long live the king! (Vettori).

I think he means 'reinvigorating'. Sounds about right when one of the traditionally boring teams starts producing cricket everyone wants to watch.

I actually believe NZ lost the chance to win the test on the first day. Although we had them 30/4 the line and length from Boult & Southee was awful. It was telling that Henry looked better and had longer spells. We really have to think who is the go to bowler to dry things up. Boult is the...

Actually I was thinking more of bowlers that can bowl when's there's nothing there'd can bowl long spells. I don't think Southee or Boult are ideal for that as we may end up bowling them into the ground. Them being largely just swing bowlers and all. At this stage I don't think it is Sodhi, I...

Hopefully Mark Craig can get is act together or he might be another NZ spinner with a short career! Bowled some utter crap. Still unsure about a Southee, Boult, Henry attack, feels like it's lacking a workhorse. Leaving that aside, how good were Cook and Root to get through the morning...

Best banter of the day (not exact quotes): Warne - "And we have Curtly for the lunchtime interview who is currently hitting me on the head. (Jokingly) If he carries that on I'm going to chop off that thing on top of his head!" Gower - (To Warne and in reference to his fake hair) "Careful...

Let's think about this, which players can you get? Ones that are underpaid, unhappy and dis-empowered. That pretty much gets you Pakistan, Zimbabwe, some WI players, KP, Ryder and no doubt a few others. It possibly won't be a retirement village if it goes ahead.

As you know it's dependent on the conditions and whether they are good for swing. I do believe there's footage of MacGill on YouTube getting legbreaks to swing out in a test match (I'll need to find it as it's in one of those compilations). If MacGill was doing it you know there's big revs...

Interestingly Adil Rashid who got his bowling back to a decent level last county season has been asked by the England coaching staff to speed up his bowling as they believe he is too slow for tests. The inside word is that with that work he has, of course, lost the spin he was getting. Another...

If Warne came to you and told you how you should be bowling you'd probably do it, as would I, but is it actually the best way for you to bowl? As you've seen with the videos people have posted we're all different with only some base fundamentals that link those different styles. Imagine if your...

I can vouch for his experience in NZ in the 90's (not at that level though!). No one knew anything about legspin other than the occasional Philpott or Jenner seminar and I can tell you that it showed in the coaching. Loveridge bowled flat legbreaks because that was the best way to take...

They've always been fine their problem is that they go crazy when they lose, captain are forced to resign, wholesale changes, coaching staff booted out. Great to see them get a run on, especially as they have their own style of cricket. Proof that more competitive nations at international level...

Great article on a guy that got crushed by coaches, including Terry Jenner. Also makes you think about you and the game: http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/857117.html At least he's a happy man now!

Set the benchmark for commentating (it is noticeable how quickly channel 9 went downhill when he retired). He was the voice of my cricket watching youth. And he could play.

Basically you are bowling too slow if the batsman is able to charge you after you've released the ball and get to the ball on the full (assuming you are landing the ball on a good length). The speed gets quicker as you go up the grades as the batsmen can react quicker, have better techniques and...

Completely agree, Astle's out-bowled the other spinners across all formats. What is noticeable is that he has remodelled his action since his test debut and he now looks the goods. Helps he can bat as well.

Shocked that Rutherford gets another life, even if he is just a backup. Henry is a no-brainer for the squad as is the recall of Guptill. I guess with the tests being in the English spring any of the NZ legspinners would be surplus to requirements. Colin Munro is very unlucky to miss out on the...

It's usually the nature of the injury that determines what they do. Malinga's back and knees have pretty much gone so T20 are his only option with ODIs at a stretch. Gayle's back keeps getting worse, I watched him at the QF and I could not imagine him playing test cricket in that condition...