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May 15, 2008Posted on 05/15/2008 in English cricket
Playing a Broad bat
Duncan Fletcher in the Guardian shows he is still thinking about the importance of a strong lower order. He believes Stuart Broad can become a genuine allrounder.
Ideally, you want your allrounders to be batting allrounders in the Jacques Kallis mode. Broad, like Flintoff, is a bowling all-rounder and he will find at his young age that it is hard to concentrate properly on both disciplines. But he has serious potential, not just as a bowler whose height is a crucial extra dimension on what might be another flat Lord's pitch, but as a No. 8 capable of scoring fifties. I remember our bowling coach Kevin Shine bringing Broad to my attention, and he wasn't wrong.
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