Sentence examples for swing bowler from inspiring English sources
England prospect: Luke Hatchett (left-arm swing bowler).
This is not to say, though, that Botham was not a thrilling swing bowler.
Even Anderson, the best swing bowler in the world, doesn't pitch it up all the time.
The England swing bowler Graham Onions has been ruled out of all cricket for up to three months.
A keen swing bowler in his cricketing days, he loved poetry and could quote it at impressive length.
Finding cover for Anderson is more problematic, for beyond Graham Onions there is no swing bowler of sufficient class to take the new ball.
England's batsmen were no match for New Zealand's swing bowlers in their first innings – a fact not lost on the former Test captain and opener Gooch.
The best swing bowlers have days when nothing happens, when it seems as though they are doing everything right, but the ball goes through straight and the batsmen prosper.
The fear was that Headingley's tendency to favour swing bowlers would put Johnson under intolerable strain, exposing his own failure to swing the ball regularly even more starkly.
However, his angle of the seam towards third slip seemed excessive (and abnormal for him) compared to the Kiwis and most swing bowlers who favour first slip to slip and a half.
England head to Lord's on Thursday without their two best swing bowlers – Jimmy Anderson and Ben Stokes are sidelined with the latter's batting prowess insufficient to win him a place in the team (probably not a source of debate in the case of the former).
