(SPORTSMAX) – Former Windies pace bowler, Richard ‘Prof’ Edwards, admits he is disappointed by what he believes to be the slow progress of promising pace bowler Alzarri Joseph.
The 24-year-old fast bowler has long been tipped to give West Indies the type of firepower typical of years gone by, but is yet to completely deliver on that promise.
The young bowler has shown plenty of flashes of that prodigious talent. He put in a strong performance against England, in 2019, and took a record-breaking six for 12 on his debut for Mumbai Indians. Joseph has, however, not produced such performances consistently. Joseph, who made his debut in 2016, has taken 38 Test wickets in 16 matches and 54 One Day International wickets in 34 matches. “It’s disappointing that he does not seem to have gone on from the time he started; until now, there doesn’t seem to be any great improvement,” Edwards told the Mason and Guest radio programme. “He seems to be bowling wide of the crease to right-handers, angling it. He should get as close to the stumps as possible,” he added.
“He is not accurate, he had not been able to develop as much as you would have expected. He is not a real swinger of the ball. He is athletic, he looks like he bowls pretty fast, but he is not doing much with the ball.”