Interested to hear comments praising Lawrence's technique and criticising Burns'. I have it the other way round, with Lawrence getting his hands in all the wrong spots, making it very loose, whereas with Burns I think the quirky stuff actually happens before the bowler reaches the crease (though he possesses limited scoring options).
Issue is not as much with the quality of the county game as its fundamental otherness from test cricket. There remains a preponderance of seamers who peak at or below 80mph but use "a bit of nip" which allows them to pick up wickets but not test reactions in the same way a Test attack might. Excluding the hypothetical Sussex one day attack for a moment, Lancashire probably have the quickest attack in the FC game right now, with Anderson, Mahmood and Luke Wood around 85 and Bailey, Lamb and a couple of others over 80. That's still a bit gap from Cummins, Hazlewood, Starc and Pattinson all over 90, which denies players the right to live on their reflexes.
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