"I have always been able to bowl a little bit quicker but in county cricket you are bowling day in and day out and the body just won't last," he said after launching an npower artificial practice area in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield. "I was disappointed when I was bowling well for Notts [Nottinghamshire] and nobody came to see me.
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"Duncan didn't come down to see what I was capable of. That's the way it goes. He's been a good coach and he's done well for England. I can bowl a little bit quicker and maybe I can surprise myself."
To the casual sports watcher, Sidebottom is the bowler with the long, ginger, curly hair worn in a style rarely seen outside heavy metal bands. Cricket fans relish his ability to move the ball late in the air and England supporters applaud the extra dimension he brings to an attack which has faltered since the heady Ashes triumph of 2005.
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