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It’s the ‘ins and outs’ of life in the fast lane…

The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

Have we got too many fast bowlers? In England’s golden days of the 1950s they had Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Frank Tyson and Peter Loader, all genuinely quick, all capable of Test wickets, though the period didn’t last long. And in the 1950s you had Trevor Bailey as third seamer, so never played three fast bowlers together. This, of course, followed the immediate post-war period when England had no fast bowlers at all.
Now we have two teams to think about, the ODI team for the Champions Trophy and then...

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