{"id":294088,"date":"2025-11-19T04:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294088\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T04:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:43:11","slug":"how-the-england-coachs-advice-to-brendan-doggett-on-kevin-pietersen-shaped-the-australian-fast-bowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294088\/","title":{"rendered":"How the England coach\u2019s advice to Brendan Doggett on Kevin Pietersen shaped the Australian fast bowler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor the batters it was taking the game on and trying to clear the ropes and be entertaining, something that he\u2019s taken into the Test cricket arena, and it\u2019s got people talking. That \u2018Bash Brothers\u2019 team, we were selling out the Gabba for every home game, and they were putting on absolute clinics of batting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the likelihood of bouncer plans against England at Perth Stadium, where the deep square boundaries offer scope for catches in the deep, Doggett agreed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brendan Doggett.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20c2f7fa1eaf4d53fb1d2372f3e672abb6d2c461.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brendan Doggett.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always a place for bumper spells in this form of cricket, regardless of the ground size,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeil Wagner did it out here not that long ago and it looked pretty difficult, so I think you\u2019ll see both guys go to it at some stage throughout this summer, and yeah, when you\u2019ve got such big square boundaries it\u2019s always a really good wicket-taking tactic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would be an incredibly proud moment for Doggett to walk onto the field <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5nfyw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alongside Scott Boland<\/a>, seven years after the pair were part of an unforgettable Indigenous tour of the UK to retrace the steps of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p4z2aq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 1868 Indigenous First XI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot at all, you couldn\u2019t have even said last year could I have imagined it to be fair,\u201d Doggett said when asked if he thought in 2018 they would be Test teammates. \u201cBut watching what Scotty\u2019s done, he\u2019s been a great example for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLate in his career he\u2019s bowling the best he ever has, and you\u2019ve seen how dominant he is at international cricket now at a late age. He\u2019s a great example for me to see I\u2019ve still got a lot of time left and can have a big impact on this stage if I get an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepresenting the Australian Indigenous people is something I\u2019m very proud of and feel like it\u2019s a great opportunity to be a face and an example. The numbers are increasing and that\u2019s the biggest thing for us, if we can inspire some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5n5t0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">young Indigenous kids to try and play for Australia<\/a>, that\u2019s the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Another former teammate of Doggett is the recalled batter and now Queensland captain Marnus Labuschagne. The pair exchange some banter about their records against each other, most recently after Doggett missed SA\u2019s Shield games against the Bulls, where Labuschagne sculpted a century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was spewing I didn\u2019t get to play him in our Shield game earlier where he scored a hundred against us,\u201d Doggett laughed. \u201cWhen he scored it I texted him and said, \u2018Lucky I wasn\u2019t playing\u2019 and he said, \u2018I would\u2019ve scored 200 if you were playing\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he\u2019s in some rich form at the moment. I\u2019d like to still think I\u2019ve got it over him, I\u2019ve got him out a few times, I either hit him on the shin or bump him out, so I\u2019d like to continue that in the nets if I can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFor the batters it was taking the game on and trying to clear the ropes and be entertaining,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-294088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}