From Jeff Thomson to Brett Lee and Shaun Tait, Australian cricket fans have an obsession with lightning-fast pace bowlers, now emerging quick Lance Morris is making his mark on the game.
abc.net.au/news/lance-morris-the-reluctant-wild-thing/101873894From Jeff Thomson to Brett Lee, Shaun Tait and now Lance Morris, Australian cricket fans have an obsession with lightning-fast pace bowlers.It has earned him the nickname Wild Thing, which he tried to resistThe West Australian rocketed into the public eye after being called up to the national squad this summer, following a brilliant start to the Sheffield Shield season, in which he's claimed 27 wickets at an average of just 18.
"'I've always thought there was only one Wild Thing [Tait], so I felt a little bit bad," the 24-year old said laughing."I guess I resisted it a bit too much and it stuck with me." "I rocked up to an indoor training and [I was] just running and bowled as fast as I could, and someone blurted it out," he said.
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