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SuperFred gets a Brazillian
August 3rd, 2009
Crap Lookalikes – Andrew Flintoff is a Brazillian Statue
August 3rd, 2009 Fred the redeemer |
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How shit is Mitch?
July 29th, 2009It wasn’t until JRod pointed out that Mitchell has better figures than Anderson that I got to thinking a statistical analysis could be insightful on the bowlers in this series to date. I’ve uploaded my working here if you want to take a look in Excel.
Mitchell Johnson is in terrible form, you can read about it here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and according to google there are 520 more such stories here.
However, when one looks at aggregated bowling figures, Johnson has 8 wickets and is just trailing Hauritz (9) and Hilfenhaus (9) for series honours.
Mithcell’s bowling average of 41.38 looks terrible, until you consider the roads prepared to date and observe that he’s ranked 5th best in the series, ahead of JM Anderson (42.1), PM Siddle (45.1), GP Swann (56.1), SCJ Broad (64.1), MS Panesar (115.1) and all the part timers.
Johnno’s overall economy rate is poor at 4.00, with just Collingwood (4.47) and Onions (4.55) returning inferior resutls. Still, I haven’t read too many stories calling for Onions to be chopped.
On paper his bowling to date is more than acceptable, it’s impressive. He’s taken 8 out of 34 English wickets, namely Strauss, Cook (twice), Bopara, Flintoff, Prior, Broad (on 19) and Anderson (on 29) so there’s no ’soft’ ones padding his stats, unlike SuperFred.
Are we asking too much of a guy who’s had the ’spearhead’ label placed on him after 3 good spells and an injury to Lee? If we’re going to drop any bowler for Clark to come in then Siddle should be first in line.
Not so super Fred
July 22nd, 2009
Give it to me big boy
Sure it would be easy to discount the wickets of Phil Hughes and Simon Katich from Freddie’s performance, however Flintoff’s brilliance transcends Rudi’s howlers. I’d like to think it was Fred’s aura that blurred Rudi’s view of the front foot line, and his presence that persuaded Rudi to forsake consistancy and just adjudicate the Strauss “catch” out. Well, either his precense or his presents, either way Hansie would be proud of his countrymen.
In remembering this outstanding bowling performance it should not be forgetten that he legitimately dismissed a wicket keeper and two bowlers, a phenomonal effort for a bowler passed fit by England’s medical staff just 4 mornings earlier.
Then there was the spirit in which he bowled his fiery 10 over spell, surely this is the stuff of which legends are made. That he celebrated his wickets like an ‘outraged camp duck’ shouldn’t take the gloss away from this memorable performance.
Freddie deserves to be eulogised and immortalised, though probably not as much as the 62 English bowlers who have superior innings figures at Lords (even after including Rudi’s freebies).
Here’s some thumbnails of Freddie accepting the well deserved praise that came with his 6 wickets…
KP is a twat
July 12th, 2009There’s nothing funnies than KP getting out, it’s a sight that can be enjoyed by Australians, South Africans and Englishmen alike. What a twat.
