Posts Tagged "jeff thomson"

Tall-timber Australian paceman Mitchell Starc should be encouraged to constantly let it rip and ignore the generally accepted line and length theory.

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Former firebrand Jeff Thomson is right on the money: Australian fast bowlers need to bowl more, not be wrapped in cotton wool by rotation.

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Jeff Thomson walked on stage at Melbourne’s Crown Casino dressed a little like a clown. The Australia pace-bowling great wore a bright pink shirt, black pants, black tie and cream jacket, with his trademark mop of white hair hanging over his shoulders.

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For the sake of this discussion, this definition excludes magnificent fast-medium performers Alan Davidson, Bob Massie, Max Walker, and Glenn McGrath, among others. Let me open with the prince among quickies, Ray Lindwall.

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A roll of Australia’s greatest Test pacemen would feature Dennis Lillee, Glenn McGrath, Ray Lindwall, Alan Davidson and Fred Spofforth. Slightly below them sit the likes of Craig McDermott, Jeff Thomson, Graham McKenzie, Jason Gillespie, and Brett Lee.

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It’s been a mixed weekend for Australian sports. While our athletics team achieved its best ever result at a World Championships, with two gold and two bronze medals, we surrendered the Ashes back to England and the Wallabies lurched to their third straight Tri-Nations loss.

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Former Test paceman Jeff Thomson has mocked England’s prospects of winning next week’s Ashes decider and said that Andrew Flintoff’s farewell Test is set to end in “disappointment”.

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