How an impromptu conversation gave Rushworth’s bowling a new edge
When I first started playing I was an old-school swing bowler. I remember having a conversation at a PCA awards night with Matt Maynard. He said: “Batters always shape up against away-swing; right-handers always look to face away-swing on the bowling machine; left-handers always want it coming in. No one ever goes the other way.”
That prompted me to change, to go away from what everyone was used to facing, and go predominantly wobble seam to right-handers and round-the-wicket to left-handers. For f...
