The giddy rush of a great bowling spell
In his column for the Guardian, Andy Bull writes about how he will remember Stuart Broad's match-winning spell at Chester-le-Street
ESPNcricinfo staff
14-Aug-2013
What do you remember of the great bowling spells you have witnessed? According to Andy Bull, our memories of great bowling spells are not so much the exact details, but the unexpected impressions, born from being swept by the adrenaline and energy at the ground. In his column for the Guardian, Bull writes about how he will remember Stuart Broad's memorable spell at Chester-le-Street.
The jaffa that Stuart Broad delivered to Michael Clarke on Monday evening will last. But not so well, in my mind, as the loud thump of Brad Haddin's bat as he dropped it, like an axe into a stump, on the yorker Broad sent him as a welcome to the wicket. It was so fast and forceful that the sound echoed around the ground like a gunshot across a moor. Or Broad's anger when he was told by Alastair Cook that the bad light meant he would have to come off. And how he was led, almost by the hand, away to mid-off, like a boxer ordered by the referee to stand in the corner while his opponent took a 10 count.