Aussies' wrist position is not right: Prabhakar
Posted on Oct 27, 2008 at 10:22 | Updated Oct 27, 2008 at 10:40
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Mumbai: India' former reverse swing specialist Manoj Prabhakar feels the visiting Australian seamers are struggling to reverse swing the ball due to wrong wrist position.
"The Aussie seamers' wrist position is all wrong to effect late reverse swing. Unlike the Indian bowlers, who have been able to exploit even with a relatively new ball, the Australians are not gripping the ball to help late reverse swing.
"Right now they are able to seam the ball and may a little bit of reverse swing when the ball is really old but they are not able to swing it late," Prabhakar said.
"It is hard to survive in Australia if you cannot seam the ball like wise you cannot survive in the sub-continent if you do not know how to swing the ball. You have to mix a bit of both to be a successful reverse swing bowler," he added.
"A reverse swing is useless if a bowler can not swing it late. Only if it swings late it have the desired effect. That is the art they have to learn, and among all the Australian bowlers only Mitchell Johnson can do that," Prabhakar observed.
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