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Re: Boland....suffers with Bazball as they are looking for an easier paced bowler to hit and all bat out of their crease  and treat him like a medium pacer. Also bowling bouncers every ball isn't his go, he builds pressure with accuracy and is looking to nick players off rather than have them caught on the boundary.
England producing flat one day tracks hasnt helped him either and Hazelwood will probably take his spot.

[member=57]ElwoodBlues1[/member] at one stage they had hit five(5) boundaries and a bunch of singles off Boland yesterday, four boundaries over or through slips, and one an inside edge to fine leg.

In the broadcast Taylor unloaded on Boland, in his last over Boland had Bairstow all over the place, Bairstow inside edged a ball just past leg stump for four, Taylor said Boland was too expensive and lacked control.

Cummins put himself on to replace Boland from that end the next over and Bairstow got pretty much the same inside edge onto the stumps, Taylor called it great bowling.

Rubbish commentary like that is straight out of an episode of The Twilight Zone, and it gets picked up by the media and parroted like it's a statement of fact!

I feel for Boland, he was probably our best bowler but just couldn't buy a wicket, the commentators labelled Boland as expensive but the other bowlers went for more runs off the middle of the bat! 20 of 49 runs Boland conceded came from completely uncontrolled edges.
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