Talk:Ian Johnson (cricketer)

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[edit] Johnson and the Invincibles

Johnson began well enough with 29 wickets in four matches, but he experienced a lean time until towards the end of the summer and he was not so troublesome to batsmen in Tests as when at home, principally because of the difference in pace of the pitches and his inability to bowl round the wicket, an almost essential part in the make-up of an off-spinner in England. False expectation against Johnson in Australia usually cost a batsman his wicket, but on slower English pitches there was time to change a stroke and still keep the ball out of the stumps, even though beaten by flight.

Wisden

-- Mattinbgn\talk 12:54, 27 May 2008 (UTC)