Parnell starts to purr

Peter Roebuck has followed the rise of South Africa over the past five months and continues to like what he sees. In the Sydney Morning Herald he says Wayne Parnell, who took four wickets in the second ODI in Centurion, is the latest member of the growing band of promising cricketers breaking through.

Briefly glimpsed in Australia sending down a handful of overs, the lanky left-armer belongs to the old school of swing bowling. Those scanning the card might imagine he produced an unplayable succession of deliveries that behaved along the lines of an escaping mosquito. In fact, he merely followed in the footsteps of the fine curl and cut bowlers of the past ...

Parnell has enough pace and bounce to command respect from even a properly constructed and functioning batting order. Australia's batting offered no such opposition.

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