Trent Copeland- New Australian Debutant - Medium Pacer | Harris as valuable as he is fragile.

[rkt.india]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq7LVK86Q-A]Trent Copeland - Sheffield Shield Final - YouTube[/ame] 6-5" tall with very good FC record. http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/281974.html Standard of cricket overall with batting and bowling has gone down in world cricket or what?

[ShebbySB]

He's a trundler,more like Stuart Clark.It proves tall,hit the deck bowlers will be successful in Aussie,so we need Pankaj Singh in the squad for the upcoming Aussie tour,he bowls 130-135kph range plus has a great F record on our patta desi pitches.

[rkt.india]

He is very slow hitting 119K for Aussie standards and look at the shots batsmen are playing, like T20. It shows low standard of cricket around the world nowadays.

[Hell Raiser]

James pattinson who played the last ODI against Sri Lanka looks to be better bowler than Copeland.

[rkt.india]

James pattinson who played the last ODI against Sri Lanka looks to be better bowler than Copeland.

yes..Pattinson was impressive.

[ZodiaC]

Copeland is PK of Aus - he's pretty accurate from what I've seen. Though many Aussies don't rate him for the same reason. And I agree, Pattinson is better in terms of pace.

[rkt.india]

Copeland is PK of Aus - he's pretty accurate from what I've seen. Though many Aussies don't rate him for the same reason. And I agree' date=' Pattinson is better in terms of pace.[/quote'] He is more in Aasif and Sturat Clark mode rather than PK. PK is a swing bowler. He is hit the deck.

[rkt.india]

Harris as valuable as he is fragile. Ryan Harris, all bustling pace and wickedly late movement, has become Australian cricket's most precious bowling commodity. The great pity for Harris and Australia is that at the age of 31 he is also among its most fragile. The heavy rain that shrouded Pallekele and ruined any chance of a result on the final day could not obscure the outstanding quality of Harris' bowling on a dead pitch. But a hamstring scare illustrated why Australia's team management had already discussed the possibility of resting Harris for the final Test in Colombo should the series be decided. Those who first saw Harris bowling at little more than medium pace for South Australia, with the Redbacks keeper Graham Manou standing up to the stumps for him, have been endlessly amazed and fascinated by the leap he made in subsequent years. He gained in pace, accuracy and self-assurance, augmenting the amiable temperament that made him a popular team man even before first-class and Test wickets started to arrive in bunches. Harris himself puts the change down to growing up, gaining in fitness and strength, and also becoming a little more comfortable in revered cricket company after years of uncertainty and single-season contracts with South Australia. Adelaide's rusted-on cricket culture, which alternates between extremes of lethargy, drinking and infighting, might also have held him back. Nonetheless, he was as quick, if not as confident, as he is today before he chose to leave. A move to Queensland - they offered a three-year contract following Harris' one and only full season with SA - completed the transformation. Australia's success thus far in Sri Lanka could not have taken place without Harris' combination of speed, swing and seam, all achieved with a level of accuracy that has given the hosts very little room to manoeuvre. His run to the wicket and bowling action are things of more power than beauty, making his epithet "Rhino" all the more fitting. But he explodes through the crease with exceptional rhythm at his best, then utilises a strong wrist and seam position to gain the sort of deviation few batsmen can counter. In Pallekele, Harris defeated top-order opponents in each innings by conjuring the most dastardly of tricks, shaping the ball one way and then seaming it back the other. On the first morning it was Tharanga Paranvitana who could not counter this, edging behind to Brad Haddin. But the collector's item was the wicket of Kumar Sangakkara, seemingly entrenched for a long stay to make the game safe on day five. Harris' first over with the second new ball had been met largely with the full face of Sangakkara's bat - he was seeing it well enough. Then in his second a straighter deliver curled subtly in the direction of leg stump before zipping towards the off. Sangakkara's bat was angled, understandably, towards wide mid-on, and the cut away from him resulted in an edge to Michael Clarke at second slip. Clarke's praise for Harris after the Galle Test was the warmest a captain could offer to his bowler, and on the evidence of this ball it was entirely warranted. Among other international bowlers in 2011, perhaps only South Africa's Dale Steyn and the English quartet of Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad, Chris Tremlett and Tim Bresnan can be considered Harris' equals or betters with the new ball in hand. Across the admittedly small sample of seven Test matches, an average of 20.90 and strike rate of 42.6 places Harris in the most rarified of company. Steyn's 238 wickets at 23.21 and a strike rate of 39.9 has him well out in front as the most destructive bowler of his time, but the comparison with Harris will be intriguing if the Australian can hold his body together for the Test matches in South Africa in November. This, unfortunately, is a more open question than anyone would like it to be. Harris' career has been so speckled with injury troubles that the Australian team hierarchy is presently grateful to have him for however long he has, even if it is only a handful more matches. Following last year's Perth Ashes Test, in which Harris' nine wickets played a key part in securing Australia's only win of a dire summer, he spoke candidly about the battered knee that requires constant management and selective training to keep him on the park. He is closer than most are to their surgeon. There was plenty of painful irony then at the MCG, when it was not Harris' knee but his ankle that fractured under the stress of his whole-hearted run to the bowling crease. The break ended his season, and he was not sighted again until the Indian Premier League, which he used as a warm-up to the upcoming Australian schedule with a program more dedicated to physio and rehab than the bars and parties that would have been his usual haunts in earlier years. During that latest convalescence, the Australian selectors decided that in future they would use Harris as a Test match specialist, leaving him out of the ODI squad for Sri Lanka even though his record in the format - 41 wickets at 16.12 - is even more spectacular than his Test match figures. To that end Harris trained with longer spells and back-to-back Tests in mind, and in Pallekele he pushed himself through a number of punishing stints at the crease, extracting life from a pitch that had very little to offer once the initial moisture of the first morning had evaporated. After Sangakkara he took one more wicket for the Test, his sixth, when Prasanna Jayawardene edged a ball that left him after the previous two had angled in towards his stumps. The celebrations were soon followed by the worrying sight of Harris heading off to assess a hamstring complaint, and there were plenty of concerned looks among his team-mates as he left. They know exactly how much Harris can add to the Australian attack when he plays, and how much is lost when he does not.

[Dravid_TheWall]

I liked this guy since his debut. Very good! Good thinking brain, pace, guts everything we don't have right now.

[yadhav500]

But he doesn't have a body that is ideal for a fast bowler. Top half:bottom half weight proportion is not in his favor. I doubt whether he'd make it to 2013 even.

[TheYuvi02]

He averages 21 with 31 wickets, injury harmed his career

[Cricket Tragic]

Injured again :facepalm: The guy is a damn fine bowler. He has good pace, swings the ball and runs in right through the day.

[Pagalpanti]

He's been very unlucky with injuries. It'll be disappointing if he has to give up test cricket, I don't think his body can handle it, he broke down even after the Pakistan tour a year back.

[Chandan]

He is very slow hitting 119K for Aussie standards and look at the shots batsmen are playing' date=' like T20. It shows low standard of cricket around the world nowadays.[/quote'] He is a very very slow bowler in the range of 122-128kph range. Yes he is accurate but doesn't have swing like Praveen has. Then how did he take so many wickets on lifeless Lanka tracks?

[Stuge]

looks accurate in my opinion :) on a side note :their medium pacers .. our fast bowlers lol

[Trichromatic]

He is a very very slow bowler in the range of 122-128kph range. Yes he is accurate but doesn't have swing like Praveen has. Then how did he take so many wickets on lifeless Lanka tracks?

Because he doesn't swing a lot. His movement is marginal and that help more in taking wicket. Big swing at 80 mph and batsman can easily negotiate that. Look at James Anderson. He doesn't swing miles like PK. His balls move by 10-15 degrees around off-stump and that's how many batsman got out in Ind-Eng series. PK beats the bat on many occasions.

[rkt.india]

He is a very very slow bowler in the range of 122-128kph range. Yes he is accurate but doesn't have swing like Praveen has. Then how did he take so many wickets on lifeless Lanka tracks?

no..he did not take many wickets...very few wickets to his name...only has 4 wickets in 2 tests. Harris took most of the wickets. He does not swing the ball much, but he has very flexible wrist through which he can seam the ball in and out, but the best thing is he is 6 feet 5 so he gets extra bounce and bowls very good length where he is always tough to get away. He has very decent action as well as he bowls close to the stumps and keeps it tight. HE can be handy in seaming conditions because of his accuracy and bounce. And You dont need miles of swing to get batsmen out, a little bit of deviation with accuracy can trouble batsmen. Huge swing mostly beats the bat.

[TheYuvi02]

The reason he is doing somewhat well is because he is the only trundler in the team along with two real fast bowlers, but like in indian team when all bowlers are trundlers batsmen can play them with ease since all of them have around the same pace.

[Trichromatic]

The reason he is doing somewhat well is because he is the only trundler in the team along with two real fast bowlers' date=' but like in indian team when all bowlers are trundlers batsmen can play them with ease since all of them have around the same pace.[/quote'] Playing with two fast bowlers gives him advantage. In case of Indian medium pacers, batsmen are always on front foot. All bowlers were around 80 mph and they were not intimidating the batsmen with short-pitched stuff. It's too predictable for the batsmen. They can always plant their front-foot and manage the swing of PK. In case of Australia, both Harris and Johnson are fast bowlers and all three are different types of bowlers. It's harder to adjust for that kind of attack. I reckon India will have tough time in Australia.

[Trichromatic]

hes only a stop gap bowler mate' date=' once bollinger &hilfy are back to form & fitness he will be out[/quote'] Bollinger is in good form. But he won't get much chance in tests.