Reverting back to the original subject of the thread, Dernbach is the luckiest cricketer around to get into the final 15,apparently he has the worst economy rate (worldwide?) in both T20 & 50 overs, his discipline has also seen him dishing out the verbals to Cameron White recently despite White totally obliterating his bowling, incredibly he invited White outside to sort it out!!
How can he have been allowed to progress so far (& so badly)?
Clearly something needs to be done pdq, a good start would be to kick him out now!!
Just looked at the T20 bowling stats for the series.
Dernbach 11-1-104-2
It's hard to see why they keep picking him but I don't think he bowled that badly this series. He had a couple of catches dropped of him and a few edges went to the boundary. 10 an over the times that he bowls in the first powerplay at the likes of Smith and Gayle and at the death to the likes of Sammy is actually about par for the course in those times.
Interesting analysis but my feeling is that dropped catches/edges (like dodgy umpiring decisions) even themselves out. 10 an over is just about acceptable if you are taking wickets.
If you are bowling at the death when batsmen are taking the greatest risks, you should be picking up more wickets than Dernbach is getting. Historically, he had a good strike rate but he is going backwards, fast. Combining the WI series with the recent T20 series in Australia, 6 matches in all, Dernbach's figures are 22-1-235-2, that's a strike rate of 66....before that his strike rate was 16.
With all the video analysis available to coaches, opponents know that his much-vaunted variations consist largely of slow, wide balls, down the off-side, especially at the death.
I'll admit that there is not a lot of competition for Dernbach's place but if Bopara can outbowl him time and time again, the selectors need to rethink the structure of the team.
