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The world's premier reverse swing bowler seemingly less successful now his teammates aren't sandpapering the ball to encourage reverse swing?
Being the leading wicket taker in the recent ODI World Cup would readily dispel that myth.
And quoting an opinion piece from NZ's equivalent of the Daily Fail is hardly scientific research to back up that statement.
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It's hardly the only source discussing it (https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/the-damning-numbers-that-reveal-australia-s-bowling-struggles-20190101-p50p1n.html, its been covered in the guardian and various podcasts etc), no debate that starc's a great bowler but to ignore that he's been unplayable at times when reverse swinging in tests over the past few years and we know what his team mates have been doing seems perverse. Does anyone really believe this was an isolated incident and that they got caught the first time they tried it ? Yeah, other teams have done stupid things and I'm really conflicted re whether I consider this punishment fair or not, but I do believe it merits further discussion. When you consider Amir got 6 months in prison and a 5 year ban for bowling a few no balls to order (for personal financial gain) its really murky. If we think the ozzies may have done this across a period of time, impacting results and hence also personal gain in performance bonuses and endorsements etc I really don't know where to come down in the issue. I can equally see the argument that it's not really that far from gratuitously throwing the ball into the pitch, roughing it on zips, using sweet saliva etc. Albeit massively more brazen/stupid...
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The world's premier reverse swing bowler seemingly less successful now his teammates aren't sandpapering the ball to encourage reverse swing? Yeah, seems entirely unreasonable to even consider whether there's correlation...