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3. If anything...

Reply to Matilda (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 28, 2014, 02:57 AM

Nov 2014

...I'd say that fast bowling may have been more aggressive in times past, especially with the great West Indies teams of the 70's and 80's.

Australia of course had Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thompson in the 1970's as well.

The chances are that bouncers won't be bowled quite as much for a time (although somebody is guaranteed to use them again to great effect in the future), and who knows, maybe the helmets batsmen wear will improve as well. That would be the best thing to come from this IMHO

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