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Goodbye 2020: Here are the 5 best Test bowling performances from the year
2020 was a drought year for cricket, especially Test cricket. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, many tours and series got cancelled. When there was a relenting of lockdowns, cricket boards focussed on getting the T20 cash cow tournaments going. Still, the year produced some solid, highly-watchable Test cricket. There were several memorable individual performances that would stick in the minds of cricket fans who watched it. Bowlers enjoyed success as much as batsmen. For all the talk of batsmen ruling the roost in this sport, both spinners and pacers continue to make a big impression in Tests. The year saw Naseem Shah become the yougest bowler to take a Test hat-trick while Australia condemned India to their lowest-ever Test score. It also featured impressive debuts from Kyle Jamieson and Mohammad Siraj and reassertion of class by the likes of Stuart Broad and James Anderson. The year ended with the superhuman effort of Neil Wagner in bowling with two fractured toes and taking two crucial wickets for his team But, as we look forward to a bright new year, with possibilities of more great bowling efforts, let's take a glance at the year gone by and recount the five most impressive bowling performances in the Test format that took place in it. It's not necessarily the wickets only that determine what a good performance is, but also the context and the quality. 5. Ben Stokes (3/35 vs South Africa, Cape Town) For anyone to understand why Stokes is so special, watching the final day's play in the second Test between England and South Africa at Cape Town on January 7 would have been highly valuable. South Africa were looking to save the Test as the target of 438 was well beyond their reach once they were 7/237 in the final session. Then came one of those tight finishes only a Test match could offer. Proteas' lower order fought hard to save the match. The pitch was flat, England's leading strike bowler James Anderson was unfit, and the batsmen, led by the doughty Vernon Philander, were determined. Things didn't seem easy for the visiting side. Then, Stokes stepped up and bowled his heart out on a thankless wicket. First, he gobbled the wickets of Dwaine Pretorious and Anrich Nortje off successive deliveries to leave South Africa 9-down. Then, four overs later, he got a delivery to rise uncomfortably to take the glove of Philander and end up in the hands of the gully fielder. 3/35 in 23.4 overs may not look stunning. But words and numbers cannot do justice to that herculean effort by Stokes as he relentlessly went on seeking a victory for his team and earned it despite the pitch providing no help whatsoever to any bowler. 4. Shannon Gabriel (5/75 vs England, Southampton) Shannon Gabriel's lion-heartedness has always been admired. This quality came to the fore again during his team's tour to England. In the first Test, on the fourth day, West Indies were looking to restrict the target England were setting for them for the fourth innings. Gabriel rose to the challenge and bowled his heart out to restrict England to just 313, thereby giving his team a target of only 200, which they chased down successfully. The brilliance of Gabriel's spell lay in his unrelenting energy and fierce probing of batsmen's technique. Known for having decent pace and hitting the deck hard, the bulky pacer got through the lower order quickly as well to ensure the target did not go beyond England's means. 3. Stuart Broad (6/31 vs West Indies, Manchester) At the start of English season, Stuart Broad got a big jolt. He was dropped from the Test team for the first match, against West Indies. This didn't go down well with the man who now has more than 500 Test wickets. But this axing proved to be just the spur he needed. When he came back into the team, he looked determined to make a point and bowled beautifully. His best performance of the season came in the final Test against Windies at Manchester where he destroyed the opposition line-up. With broad, its not the exaggerated swing that Anderson gets which does the trick. It is getting the ball to just do enough and pitching it on a fuller length. He did that brilliantly in that spell and even set batsmen couldn't deal with the skill of Broad. 2. Pat Cummins (4/21 vs India, Adelaide) Very rarely does a bowler bowl so well but still gets completely overshadowed. Though Josh Hazlewood may have got the Man of the Match award and most of the accolades for his performance in this innings, the bowling of Cummins was special in itself. An incredibly accurate bowler, Cummins hardly bowled a bad ball in his entire spell of 10.2 overs and pitched his deliveries in the most difficult area for the batsmen. He also got just enough movement to get the edge of the unfortunate Indian batters, most of whom got out without having played a bad shot. It was a beautiful in-dipper by Cummins that started the mayhem. After going through the defences of Prithvi Shaw, Cummins then inflicted an even bigger blows on the Indian team by dismissing Cheteshwar Pujara - the rock of the line-up - and Virat Kohli, the master. Even though it was Hazlewood who walked away with the most wickets, it was Cummins' accuracy and control that stifled Indian and left them wobbling. 1. Josh Hazlewood (5/8 vs India, Adelaide) The very first ball that Josh Hazlewood bowled in this spell was a near-unplayable delivery that rose sharply, deviated just a little bit and took the edge of the bat, to be taken by the keeper. The next 29 balls he bowled were hardly any easier for the batsmen. In just five overs, Hazlewood ran through the famed Indian batting line-up and, along with Cummins, made them suffer the humiliation of getting bowled out for 36. In a spell that would have made Glenn McGrath proud, the Aussie seamer didn't bowl a single bad delivery and kept testing the technique of batsmen on that most difficult area just outside the off-stump. The slight extra bounce he got further added to his menace. There was no respite for the batsmen as they kept fumbling while trying to deal with the relentless assault of Hazlewood. The combination of bounce and a bit of movement proved too much to handle for the Indians. This was a bowling performance for the ages.
Shambolic West Indies crumble against ruthless New Zealand
West Indies seemed to have an outside chance of making a comeback into the match at the start of day 2 in the second and final Test match between hosts New Zealand and the touring Caribbean side. However, the proved to be another one of those agonising experiences that West Indian fans have become used to in the last two decades. To begin with, Henry Nicholls continued his innings and made it past 150. When the eighth wicket fell, in the form of Tim Southee on the score of 359, Windies would have fancied their chances of restricting the Kiwis to less than 400. But a storm awaited them as Neil Wagner went berserk. A 95-run partnership between Nicholls and Wagner, at well over run-a-ball, completely demoralised the tourists. By the time Nicholls, got out, West Indies were deflated. But this was only the start of the ordeal. Eventually, New Zealand were all out for 460, with Wagner remaining unbeaten on 66 off just 42 balls. Nicholls finished up with a personal score of 174. Gabriel didn't add to his three wickets overnight while Alzarri Joseph ended with three as well. Chemar Holder and Roston Chase got two scalps each. Then came the turn of the West Indies batters to disappoint. Kraigg Brathwaite, supposedly in great form after getting his highest first-class score in a practice game, was out for a duck. Darren Bravo disappointed again as he was out caught and bowled by Tim Southee for just 7. Kyle Jamieson was introduced into the attack in the 15th over. And he immediately looked threatening. On the third ball of the over, he got John Campbell to edge the ball into the slip cordon where Latham took the catch. West Indies were 29/3. On the very next ball, Roston Chase, the new batsman, got a very full delivery that swung in viciously to go through the batsman's defences and hit the stumps. 29/4 and Windies were looking as hopeless as they did in the first game. Jermaine Blackwood, centurion from the first Test, played in his usual way. Going after any delivery that was pitched too full, he started playing his shots. As is the case with him, there were some wild swings of the bat, some streaky shots, but soon he settled down and with measured aggression, started to take his team's score forward. At the other end, Shamarh Brooks, the no. 4 batsman, took an altogether different approach. He went into his shell and hardly played an aggressive stroke. But with time, Blackwood became even more steady. Despite a sequence of four maidens, he didn't lose his head and continued to bat sensibly. He brought up his fifty with consecutive boundaries, the second one an upper cut over the slips. Even the short ball barrage of Wagner, into his ribs didn't trouble the diminutive right-hander much. Unfortunately, just when things seemed to have calmed down for the visiting team, Brooks decided to leave a delivery from Jamieson which was angled in sharply. It clipped the top of the stumps, ending the 68-run partnership. A little later, Southee bowled another outswinger that took the edge of Blackwood's bat and a good catch in the slip ended his innings of 69 off 92 balls. Windies were 111/6. Two more wickets went down as first, captain Holder went for a pull shot and was, apparently, done in by the extra bounce generated by Jamieson, lobbing an easy catch to mid-on. Then, the tall Kiwi seamer completed his five-for by getting a snick off Joseph's bat, to be taken by wicketkeeper BJ Watling. Using his height, good pace of over 140 kph, and ability to swing the ball, Jamieson has now racked up 18 wickets in his career, of which this is only the fourth match. With Southee, Boult, and Wagner already providing great firepower to this team, Jamieson's addition makes it even more deadly, at least at home. Windies ended the day on 124/8, all set for another disappointing innings defeat. The only thing they can draw solace from is Blackwood's good form and the willingness of Brooks to spend time at the wicket. It is more than can be said about the other batsmen of the team.