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2007 T20 WC Sri Lanka vs Australia, 22nd Match, Group F at Cape Town.

2025-04-12 8 Dailymotion

2007 T20 WC Sri Lanka vs Australia, 22nd Match, Group F at Cape Town.

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Stuart Clark doesn't stand out as the ideal Twenty20 bowler. He doesn't have a searing yorker or mischievous changes of pace and relies on plugging away to extract his victims, seemingly not the best tactic when a bowler has just four overs up his sleeve. But Clark's 4 for 20 against Sri Lanka has propelled him to the top of the World Twenty20 wicket-taking list and kept Australia in the tournament.

With McGrath now part of Australia's past rather than present a space has opened up for Clark and he has grabbed the chance to impress. He also has fond memories of bowling in South Africa after his first Test tour in 2005/06 where he took 20 wickets at 15 in three matches, including nine at Cape Town, although Twenty20 has proved a new challenge. "I'm trying to bowl more variation than I have done in the past," he said. "I did a lot of that with Hampshire in England, but there's no great secret to it."

In Tests, Clark is used to nagging away outside off stump, preying on the batsman's patience in the way McGrath made himself the world's best. In the longer form bowlers can create wickets over an extended spell but Twenty20 doesn't allow that luxury. Up to the end of this match, there had been two slip catches during the tournament, so is a bowler purely waiting for a batsman to give his innings away rather than using his skill?

Of Clark's four wickets against Sri Lanka, two were caught at point from flashing shots (one a stunning effort by Michael Clarke) another taken at third man and one, Tillakaratne Dilshan, trying to sweep through fine leg. Though the end results may not be the traditional way to collect wickets, the Australians have shown that the basic bowling attributes remain the same.

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