When England first came across Kieron Pollard last winter, he seemed an ok sort of cricketer of the bits and pieces variety. Today he played an innings for Trinidad & Tobago that can only be described as abuse. The kind of innings that will make an Australian sports psychologist somewhere an awful lot of money.
Possibly not all that much. Whilst Lee is Australia’s most experienced test bowler, his record in England is not great. And he hasn’t played a test in a while, missing the tour of South Africa where Australia won with Johnson and Siddle doing most of the damage.
Blinkered Ashes Reporting season is well underway. Patrick Kidd, of The Times’ Line and Length blog, thinks England’s inevitable defeat will be all due to the practice the Aussies have had in England over the years. Here’s my alternative take.
According to the report on Cricinfo, Lee is intending to join up with the IPL for Kings XI Punjab, but will have a 15 day window before the start of the World T20 if the franchise doesn’t make the final stages.
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