At times, especially as the ball gets a touch older, he doesn’t even angle the seam either side too much. The fingers, usually, are a touch adjacent to the seam, almost locking the ball, holding the seam upright. Master at workNot many use the pitch in the way Shami does. Length, length and then a couple of them fuller, trying to sneak in through Bavuma’s defence. Shami had of course sensed that the fuller length was the way to go, and he produced the unsurprising edge.

Source: Indian Express January 13, 2022 02:40 UTC