cricinfo.com About cricinfoblogs
Blogs home
First Class, first person Blues Brothers Rob's Lobs Tour Diaries Pak Spin Girls Aloud
Beyond The Test World On The Circuit What's New The Surfer It Figures The IPL Buzz

Cricinfo Blogs Home

« Overseas double | | Warned off »

Lewis's deserts

Posted on 06/20/2006 in Gloucestershire

Mike Smith, the left-armer who served the club so ably for 14 summers, sincerely hopes his erstwhile new-ball partner Jon Lewis does not go the same way Smith did after making a much-longed-for Test debut.

“Nobody deserves to play for England as much as Jon,” says Smith, who won a solitary cap against Australia in 1997 and might have had more had Graham Thorpe not dropped a simple catch in the slips when Matthew Elliott had barely begun his match-winning 199. “Before the first Test against Sri Lanka he’d taken more wickets this season than Flintoff, Hoggard and Plunkett put together.”

Smith also contends that Lewis, who grabbed four wickets in the Twenty20 win over Australia, was not given enough credit for his part in the Ashes triumph. “Jon was the catalyst, because it was that victory which gave England the belief they could beat the Australians. He had one bad game [in the NatWest Series], but who hasn’t against Australia?

“There’s very little to choose between Jon and Matthew Hoggard. Jon bowls at the same pace, bats better and fields better, so there’s no reason why he can’t [achieve] the same.”
Rob Steen, The Wisden Cricketer

Counties
Derbyshire (28) Durham (27) Essex (47) Glamorgan (26) Gloucestershire (27) Hampshire (36) Ireland (6) Kent (31) Lancashire (44) Leicestershire (23) MCC (7) Middlesex (27) Minor Counties (2) Miscellaneous (11) Northamptonshire (24) Nottinghamshire (28) Somerset (29) Surrey (34) Sussex (30) Universities (14) Warwickshire (33) Worcestershire (34) Yorkshire (38)
Recent Posts
Magoffin stays for Twenty20 Henderson returns to Middlesex Clare extends Derbyshire deal Schofield out for six weeks Plunkett hit by injury blow Poonia to the rescue for Scotland Journalists get on their bike Walters suffers fractured cheekbone Hildreth extends Somerset deal Yorkshire wait on Gough
Archives
May 2008April 2008March 2008February 2008January 2008December 2007November 2007October 2007September 2007August 2007July 2007June 2007May 2007April 2007March 2007February 2007January 2007December 2006November 2006October 2006September 2006August 2006July 2006June 2006May 2006April 2006
Web Feeds
© Cricinfo 2008