Wednesday, 22 February 2006

Part-time heroes

As you would expect, any list involving internationally successful dibbly-dobbly bowlers includes the odd New Zealander. What you might not expect is that one of them, Andrew Jones, appears not for his bowling ability - but because he happened to be a real bunny when the part-timers came onto bowl. 13 of his 78 dismissals in one-day cricket came at the hands of a dobber.

At the other end of the scale one batsman stands out as Nathan Astle's bunny - Inzamam al-Haq. The great Pakistani has been out to the most dibbly of dobblers six times in his career.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Inzi has a strange knack of getting out to part time bowlers a lot in one-day cricket, he's got out a lot of times against Sachin too.