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Footmarks - Ep07 - Cricket enters the Wagnerverse

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The Influence of Neil Wagner on Test Cricket

Neil Wagner is the first bowler we have ever seen to consistently bowl bounces for ball after ball. Hugely long spells, eight overspels, even with broken doors or broken toes. He also came up with these new fielding positions as we just talked about before. They don't look like traditional fields in any way. Neil Wagner has basically changed how you bowl scene bowling in the middle overs of test matches outside of Asia. And he's tried to do nature as well if we're being honest to him. Not, and also not being a fast baller, I think is really, really important as well. The vast majority of his career would probably have been 83 to 87 but now

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