Former Pakistan cricketer Faisal Iqbal: “Indeed bouncers [are] Steve Smith’s weakness”
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Australia star Steve Smith is arguably the best batsman in the world right now, but Balochistan head coach and former Pakistan cricketer Faisal Iqbal claims to know his weakness.
Healy is confident that Wade will continue to grow as time wears on
Former Australia wicketkeeper Ian Healy has advised current keeper Matthew Wade to brush up on his glove work and work on his concentration while batting against pace bowlers who like to bowl a lot of short-pitched deliveries.
McCullum believes the South African pace attack is a reincarnation of Australia’s own attack from a decade ago
New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has compared South Africa’s seamers to Australia’s legendary all-conquering pace attack, which was led by hall of famer Glenn McGrath and his trusted right-hand man Brett Lee.
Amla is known to be one of the most calmest batsmen in the game today
South Africa batsman Hashim Amla has branded Australia’s attempts to unsettle him over the first two Test matches as “quite humorous” after they tried to get under his skin by bowling short-pitched deliveries and having a more aggressive attitude.
Nafees knows that his performance against the West Indies will be vital to his chances of being a regular face in the national team
After a year of being left out of the Bangladesh team, batsman Shahriar Nafees is grateful to have received a second chance to show his worth against the West Indies.
Botha wants to see what the Australians are really made of throughout the last two Test matches
Former South Africa spin bowler Johan Botha has called on Australia to put their trash talking plans into action over the last two Test matches against the Proteas if they don’t want to end up looking like “losers”.
Smith is confident that the dossier will not have any effect on him or his team-mates
Days after News Ltd newspapers published Australia’s game plan dossier, in which it revealed how the national team were going to target each individual South African player, Proteas captain Graeme Smith admitted that the exposure of his opponents plans has done nothing but “touch the motivation springs a little more”.
The new laws took effect on October 30 2012
The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) new and improved international cricketing laws have already come into effect, with Sri Lanka and New Zealand being the first two teams to play under them.
