Originally Posted by jcafcw:
“There is a person on Twitter called the Cricket Geek who is re-tweeting people's previous unkind tweets about Chris Woakes - many saying he was useless and should never play for England again.
A touch unkind reminding them of their premature conclusions about Woakes.”
i'll admit i had reservations about woakes at this level
he actually said something in the interview they showed on day one that i had been saying for awhile. his success with the ball in domestic cricket had been based on lateral movement, but he kept getting told he needed to up his pace to succeed internationally. he did that and added 5-10mph to his bowling but in doing so lost the ability to move the ball and that was something he worked on over the winter, and its now showing in his bowling.