McDermott chips in over death bowling
In the Courier-Mail Robert Craddock talks to Craig McDermott, a World Cup winner in 1987, about tactics in the final overs .
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
In the Courier-Mail Robert Craddock talks to Craig McDermott, a World Cup winner in 1987, about tactics in the final overs.
"It's not an easy thing to bowl at the death ... you really have to try to bowl as full as you can at the stumps and also mix your pace up," McDermott said. "I know batsmen go harder at the ball these days, but I don't think the game has changed that much where, if you bowl full and at the stumps, batsmen are so good they can just flick a yorker for four on the leg side. There are a lot more fours and sixes hit today which suggests they are bowling the wrong length. If you bowl a length where the batsmen can get under you, you are going to go for runs."
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Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo