Originally Posted by Bhaveshgor:
“Finn is a diffiucult one since he looked good at SA and one test last year but clearly suffers from confidence issues and easily gets out of rhythm.
Personally think he needs to bowl loads of overs like Anderson did in county cricket before being a genius for England.
Shouldn't be forgotten Anderson was quite average after England management ruined him and hearing stories about Finn I get the idea he doesn't know how to bowl with the new action or run up and his still finding out what works best for him.
At the moment not sure I would pick Finn unless he does actually bowl 85 mph plus most of the time.
Ballance looks ok at the moment and probably deserves the entire series and possible half the India series.”
Finns always had the habit of picking up wickets without even bowling well, his last test was the only one he hasn't taken a wicket, and he had a few dropped catches off him. In the end he didn't bowl well against Sri Lanka, but still averaged under 30m and was a vital part of the wins against South Africa and Oz, mainly 8 wickets at this ground.
People are critical of England's treatment of bowlers, but it seems the fans are pretty big on wanting bowlers dropped after a couple of poor performances. I mean who can forget the annual "let's drp Broad" whenever he had a poor match, generally to be followed by a great performance, then rinse-repeat.
On Ballance, the bloke can score runs at Test cricket, he was always going to be recalled at one time, would have rather he did it off better form in first-class cricket.