England’s non-batting bowler is a blast from the past but his influence has been key as he looks to defeat South Africa 5-0“We want to wrap it up in the next game,set aside this series to bed and hopefully travel for a 5-0.” Thus spoke Reece Topley, the youngest, or tallest man in the England team and the only one who does not have much idea how to hold a bat.
This truly is the age of multidimensional cricketers,which Duncan Fletcher always sought as England coach but only found sporadically. Topley is the one specialist, non-batting bowler in the team. So they must treasure him. His assets are that he is left-handed and unfamiliar to international batsmen; he has a good idea of where the ball is going to land, and sometimes he finds swing and he has at his disposal a wide variety of slower balls. And at 21 there is his bright-eyed,uncomplicated delight of playing in a successful England team.
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Source: theguardian.com