Because you're facing 15 year old kids, and they are facing Brett Lee, Shane Bond, Murali, and the best bowlers in the world. There are plenty of good club batsmen that wouldn't be able to make decent scores at test level and yet for some reason everyone here expects that specialist bowlers can dispatch bing over cover for six. They do well enough to see the ball, yet alone judge the line and length, prepare a shot, get the timing right, get the strokeplay right, find the gap, not make any errors, all within half a second. :blink: Surely you realise how remarkably skilled world class batsmen are and in take mounds of natural talent, practice, and huge loads of skill, dexterity and power. Bowlers get into the side because of there talent bowling, and the chance that they also have the wealth of batting talent required to become a consistant batsmen is very slim. There are some freaks out there like Kallis, Pollock, Jayasuria, and Cairns, but expecting every good bowler to be able to be a good batsmen is ludicrous. You've grossly underestemated how hard it is to become a truly good batsmen, and how rare it is for someone to be blessed with both world class batting and bowling. The question "why can't bowlers bat" is like asking "why can't strikers goalkeep?" or "Why can't highjumpers hurdle?"... it's just silly.
P.S. That allrounder/bowler post may have been corny/lame/silly, but it is still more serious than the original question i think...[Mod Edit: :zimrahil: Watch it vetts!]
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