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Paceman Starc shot up to the top of the leading wicket-takers list in this World Cup by taking 4-14 in Australia's thumping seven-wicket victory over Scotland on Saturday.
The 25-year-old now has 16 scalps at just 8.50 apiece, putting him one ahead of New Zealand's Trent Boult, India's Mohammad Shami and Scotland's Josh Davey.
Earlier in the tournament, he rescued Australia against fellow co-hosts New Zealand by taking 6-28 and Pringle told Sky Sports that, at his best, Starc is a potent threat.
Captains Michael Clarke and Preston Mommsen give their immediate thoughts following Australia's seven-wicket win over Scotland in the Cricket World Cup
"With him, it's not just pace, it's reverse swing too. On this performance, when he got the ball to tail in to the tail-enders, he's the heir of Wasim Akram," said Pringle, who played for England against Wasim in both the 1987 and 1992 World Cups.
"What chance have you got against a bowler coming around the wicket who is tailing it away to off at 90mph-plus?
"If you could bat against that for half-an-hour, you could probably keep those balls out but if you've just come in, you've got no chance."
Starc and Boult are two of several left-arm seamers enjoying success in the current World Cup and former England all-rounder Pringle said that is all down to the angle of attack.
"I wonder if the success of left-armers is due to the fact that if you are a right-arm bowler at professional level - and the ball has been swinging in this World Cup - you tend to try and swing it away from the right-handed batsman.
"A lot of people are playing shots now so when left-armers swing it, homing in at the stumps and the pads, if you miss or make a mistake you are definitely going to be out.
"The old cliché 'you miss, they hit' has come much more into being with the left-armers swinging it back into right-handers."
Upgrade to Sky SportsScotland's defeat was their sixth in successive World Cup games and former player Colin Smith told Sky Sports that Starc, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Johnson had proved too hot to handle.
"I do sympathise with them, with those three guys coming at them. It did look as though they were just struggling with the pace," said Smith, who played for Scotland in the 2007 World Cup.
"It does emphasis the lack of experience of facing that sort of pace; when it’s coming at you that bit quicker, the decision-making needs to be sharper.
"They looked like they were preparing for the Twenty20 season, which we in Scotland are coming into - that's the next phase for Scotland, the T20 qualifiers.
"They seemed to be going at the ball really hard, which is positive - they were backing themselves but they may be needed to take a little more time to get in."
http://www1.skysports.com/cricket/I...rc-the-heir-of-wasim-akram-says-derek-pringle
The 25-year-old now has 16 scalps at just 8.50 apiece, putting him one ahead of New Zealand's Trent Boult, India's Mohammad Shami and Scotland's Josh Davey.
Earlier in the tournament, he rescued Australia against fellow co-hosts New Zealand by taking 6-28 and Pringle told Sky Sports that, at his best, Starc is a potent threat.
Captains Michael Clarke and Preston Mommsen give their immediate thoughts following Australia's seven-wicket win over Scotland in the Cricket World Cup
"With him, it's not just pace, it's reverse swing too. On this performance, when he got the ball to tail in to the tail-enders, he's the heir of Wasim Akram," said Pringle, who played for England against Wasim in both the 1987 and 1992 World Cups.
"What chance have you got against a bowler coming around the wicket who is tailing it away to off at 90mph-plus?
"If you could bat against that for half-an-hour, you could probably keep those balls out but if you've just come in, you've got no chance."
Starc and Boult are two of several left-arm seamers enjoying success in the current World Cup and former England all-rounder Pringle said that is all down to the angle of attack.
"I wonder if the success of left-armers is due to the fact that if you are a right-arm bowler at professional level - and the ball has been swinging in this World Cup - you tend to try and swing it away from the right-handed batsman.
"A lot of people are playing shots now so when left-armers swing it, homing in at the stumps and the pads, if you miss or make a mistake you are definitely going to be out.
"The old cliché 'you miss, they hit' has come much more into being with the left-armers swinging it back into right-handers."
Upgrade to Sky SportsScotland's defeat was their sixth in successive World Cup games and former player Colin Smith told Sky Sports that Starc, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Johnson had proved too hot to handle.
"I do sympathise with them, with those three guys coming at them. It did look as though they were just struggling with the pace," said Smith, who played for Scotland in the 2007 World Cup.
"It does emphasis the lack of experience of facing that sort of pace; when it’s coming at you that bit quicker, the decision-making needs to be sharper.
"They looked like they were preparing for the Twenty20 season, which we in Scotland are coming into - that's the next phase for Scotland, the T20 qualifiers.
"They seemed to be going at the ball really hard, which is positive - they were backing themselves but they may be needed to take a little more time to get in."
http://www1.skysports.com/cricket/I...rc-the-heir-of-wasim-akram-says-derek-pringle
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