The effervescent Essex seamer Jamie Porter has just been named one of Wisden’s five cricketers of the year. Instead the only way for Porter and Essex is replicating their unbeaten campaign of last summer, which brought the trophy to Chelmsford after 25 years. If someone can do what I do at 90mph they’d probably be more successful but I haven’t seen many. Pace is exciting to watch but the most successful bowlers in Test cricket – guys like Glenn McGrath, Shaun Pollock and Jimmy Anderson – haven’t needed it,” he says. Indeed a bowler who keeps reminding us all of this is South Africa’s Vernon Philander, who Porter very much admires.

Source: The Guardian April 12, 2018 14:54 UTC