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Jun 6th, 2012 at 6:37am
 
Waqar seems to be on the short list. He was such a fantastic bowler but you have to question whether he will go back to the dark days where we were pursuing reverse swing over those fundamental skills that McDermott bought back to the team.

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Reply #1 - Jun 6th, 2012 at 7:16pm
 
Waqar Younis has a good reputation as a bowling coach I believe.....You could be correct about wasting to much time on reverse swing but Waqar had a lot of skill and was adept at swinging the ball both ways late.....I would say give him a go if he is available!!!

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Reply #2 - Jun 9th, 2012 at 5:15pm
 
Waqar was far better than 'Billy' McDermott. God, remember those days when McDermott, Lawson, Hughes and co would just somehow bowl wides, no-balls and the perfect delivery to be hit to the fence.

Waqar was like Holding and McGrath - accuracy.

To me the best Bowler I ever saw was Bruce Reid.
This guy may have been physically fragile but he absolutely crushed the West Indians in a way that giving maiden overs was the only way they could not get out to this man.
The tall gangly left-armer bowled the most unplayable balls that I have seen from any fast bowler. One moment, the West Indies were the Calypso Kings of Cricket and the next thing they ushering in the Golden Age for Australia as Reid was soon joined by Jones and Matthews to really put the nail in the coffin.
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Reply #3 - Jun 20th, 2012 at 11:26am
 
Swing is King, especially in England.

Definitely need swing bowling to get the Ashes back in England.

Terry Alderman comes to my mind as an Aussie swing king or Nathan Bracken.

Bracken should have been in the Aussie's 2005 attack.  The Poms won with swing and we had no counter.
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Reply #4 - Jun 20th, 2012 at 8:39pm
 
It_is_the_Darkness wrote on Jun 9th, 2012 at 5:15pm:
Waqar was far better than 'Billy' McDermott. God, remember those days when McDermott, Lawson, Hughes and co would just somehow bowl wides, no-balls and the perfect delivery to be hit to the fence.

Waqar was like Holding and McGrath - accuracy.

To me the best Bowler I ever saw was Bruce Reid.
This guy may have been physically fragile but he absolutely crushed the West Indians in a way that giving maiden overs was the only way they could not get out to this man.
The tall gangly left-armer bowled the most unplayable balls that I have seen from any fast bowler. One moment, the West Indies were the Calypso Kings of Cricket and the next thing they ushering in the Golden Age for Australia as Reid was soon joined by Jones and Matthews to really put the nail in the coffin.


My clearest memory of Bruce Reid was when Alan Lamb smashed 18 runs off the last over to win a one day match. Our first series win over the windies was in 94/95 and i don't note any Reid there. He was great but too injury prone and was punished like all bowlers. Jones was also gone by then and all the Mathews i can think of were never greats of the game. Mind you there was one very impressive B Julian on that tour to the Windies.
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Reply #5 - Jun 21st, 2012 at 7:07pm
 
R U kidding me. Bruce Reid was barely playable with his tall Left Arm pacers that came from the same height that Joel Garner delivered.
If you refer to One Day Matches, then that's different to Test Cricket, in that Test Cricket suits the Bowler more than it does the Batsman.
Take the Sri Lankans who blasted their way victoriously via the Super 8's in Hong Kong to tear apart bowlers in the first 15 overs of One Dayers.
Basically, One Dayers are a hybrid of Test and Super 8's.
Super 8's is attacking Batting and defensive Bowling
Test is defensive Batting and attacking Bowling.
...the irony of Bruce Reid is that not only did he attack the edge of the batsman's bat - that if the batsman didn't play at it - then maidens would just click over.
In One Days - Bruce had to attack the wicket more and bowl more defensively.

Its hard to explain but I hope you get the gist.

Dean Jones brought in the 'make every run count' between the wickets. For him a single was just as important as a 4 to the boundary and especially in One Dayers where he really put pressure on Fieldsmen. As a fielder himself - he created the 'slide' where a fielder retrieves the ball and throws in one motion.
Then Greg Matthews brought in a sense of personality and spirit that had been sorely missing in Australian ranks. Apathy was out. Greg's sharp fielding and energetic attitude put the oomff back into the Australian style.

These 3 players to me 'ushered' in the Golden Age of Oz Cricket. It was just a formality when Taylor and crew walked in to claim the honours. The hard work had been down - the curse had been broken.

Sure the stats of Reid v McGrath are very diffierent in favour of McGrath. But it was Reid who challenged from nothing and won. He had no wave of previous successful teams to ride upon. He literally 'broke the back' of the Windies dominance, which ironically saw him break-down himself with back injuries.

It was such a pleasure watching the frustration of the Windies batsman not being able to score runs off Reid unless the risk a 'snick' to slips which usually resulted.
Then Jones mocking the Windies pace attack with his two-step back and forth as if to say, I may be heavily padded - but I ain't afraid to score runs.
Greg 'Rock n' Roll' Matthews - just as 'cool' as anyone else can be.
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