The Part Timers
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2024
- A short video inspired by Michael Clarke's last gasp performance against India.
Players featured:
Ricky Ponting dismisses Michael Vaughan
David Boon takes the wicket keeper's gloves
Marcus Trescothick's Test wicket
Micheal Clarke's 3-wicket over (Thanks to Sky Sports News)
Footage:
Sky Sports
Channel 9 Australia
I know this a video from 13 years ago but there is no way Clarke was a part-timer in the early stage of his career anyways.
Clarke was a serious and effective slow left-arm bowler who could arguably have made the team doing that and only that, had his attentions not been focussed elsewhere. There is a considerable number of international batsmen who bowled, in whatever style, seriously and well in the EARLY part of their careers, but then seemed very largely to give it up. Names which spring to mind - Hammond, Dexter, Barrington, Bell, Waugh and Waugh, Vaughan, Katich, Smith - it's a long list. And don't forget that Mike Atherton was a front-line legspinner at University and with Lancashire. What I suspect happens is that the body collects a portfolio of minor weaknesses over the duration of a career, particularly in the back region (Atherton, Clarke) which do not very much inhibit batting but cause the player, and team management, to manage his biomechanical stress load in order to continue an international batting career. Bowling, including spin bowling, is biomechanically quite complex. The niggles must mount up over the years, particularly with today's heavy international schedules, and something has to take a back seat - or that's how I read it anyway. An exception might be Joe Root, who carries on with his useful off spin seemingly indefinitely.
Michael Clarke made my eyes pop out..
Clarke you little beauty!
first time i've ever seen trescothick's, it must've swung a foot!
medwaymod amazing what those mints do to a ball
ponting also got brian lara out with his very first ball of a spell
you should add that
punter looks funny when he bowls
Didn't Clarke once take 6 for 9 against India? Does anyone have that video up?
Greg Campbell I think. Played for Tassie and went on an Ashes tour. Played a few tests.
My god that was some banana swing from Trescothick!
@OzDuker Yeah he went on the 1989 Ashes Tour
0:32-1:25 I was at that game. Australia v South Africa at the SCG 1992 World Cup
lol clarke isnt really a part timer he bowls pretty often
hahaha im an aussie and i remember that ponting wicket.
fucking weirdo (for bowling himself) that guy but an absolute champion of the game
Decent effort by Boonie lol.. would have been a great catch! ...and Mark Waugh was 12th Man.. wtf?!