'I couldn't have been a spinner!'

Fast, though he claims not furious, Jeff Thomson, one part of the Australian twin terrors of the '70s, chats with Kolkata-based The Telegraph while on commentary duty for the DLF Cup in Malaysia.

Maybe bowlers do look at the speed gun, but it’s rubbish anyway... The calculation is out of the bowler’s hand, not at the other end... It gives a false impression and the actual speed could be ten per cent slower... The question is: What are the coaches doing? It’s not that hard to make the ball swing and, so, why aren’t they working with the bowlers? Kapil Dev, Akram, Waqar Younis... All these guys swung the ball and picked up a huge number of wickets... The coaches and super coaches aren’t teaching the blokes properly.

I’m a believer in that the more you bowl, the better you get. Follow that and you’re going to be able to handle tough situations.