\u201cWorst ball that I have ever bowled was to Chris Rogers,\u201d says English off-spinner Graeme Swann. Swann picked up a five-wicket haul on the second day and ended up with the figures of 5\/44 which earned him a place on the Lord’s honours boards during the second Ashes Test against Australia. Australia were done and dusted at the score of 128.<\/p>\n
The ball that he bowled to Rogers slipped from his hand and turned into a full toss that hit the Australian. Though, it was not out when hawk-eye came into picture as the ball missed the leg stumps, but Rogers didn\u2019t go for review and the decision of on-field umpire prevailed.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the English offie was quoted by Indian Express<\/strong> saying, “It was quite simply the worst ball I’ve ever bowled. It slipped out of my hand, I can’t even watch it, so the less we see of it the better. It was truly awful cricket. I was a bit embarrassed but I’m sure Chris Rogers was even more embarrassed.”<\/p>\n On the other hand, reports published in Deccan Chronicle<\/strong> quoted Australian coach Darren Lehmann saying that, “Bucky Rogers got that wrong with Shane, he told Shane to take it. That’s just the way it goes sometimes and then he should have used one on himself, but he probably didn’t want to after wasting one.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile he was quoted by The Hindu<\/strong> saying, \u201cOur batsmen need to pull up their socks and need to pile up huge runs on the board to win this test.\u201d He expects that the top-order batsmen needs to deliver especially when conditions are favourable for batting. Even in the last match, which they lost by a thin margin of 14 runs, it was the last wicket partnership which added 228 runs after the not so impressive performance of their top-order.<\/p>\n “The big thing for us is to make more runs, simple. The top order failed again and we need to make sure we’re learning from our mistakes and we probably haven’t done that from the first innings at Notts to the first innings here,” said Lehmann.<\/p>\n “We showed glimpses but we’ve got to bat better. It was more one-day batting than Test-match batting. Our shot selection was poor today, simple as that. I think eight out of the 10 (wickets) were self-inflicted to be perfectly honest,” he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWorst ball that I have ever bowled was to Chris Rogers,\u201d says English off-spinner Graeme Swann. Swann picked up a five-wicket haul on the second day and ended up with the figures of 5\/44 which earned him a place on the Lord’s honours boards during the second Ashes Test against Australia. Australia were done and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[7476,9585,6501],"class_list":["post-16658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-from-the-newspapers","tag-ashes","tag-chris-rogers","tag-graeme-swann"],"yoast_head":"\n