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Article: Magnificent start that can set tone for series
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 2, 2007
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SRI LANKA TOUR DIARY
Classy bowling reopens scars from one-day series as home batsmen
fail to find their feet
We would have happily settled for a first day like that. Lose
toss, bowl good opposition out not long after tea on the first day.
It can set the tone of a match and a series. Our bowlers were
superb. Matthew Hoggard found his length early and bowled with
supreme intelligence. It wasn't doing much but it was doing enough
for our Hoggy; a bit of an away-swinger here, a bit of a cutter
there.
But at the other end, when those crucial early wickets fell,
Jimmy Anderson bowled a lot of dot balls. It squeezed the opposition
just a little bit tighter. Perhaps they began to think they had ...