With a steady, settled batting lineup, depth in the seam-bowling department and the world's best spinner, Saeed Ajmal, the visitors had everything needed to mount a serious challenge.
Anderson was a constant threat, swinging the ball away but shaping the occasional surprise ball back in off the seam.
All because it couldn't find a seam in a Syracuse zone that is allowing teams to shoot 29 percent from the field, including 15 percent from 3-point range, through four NCAA tournament games.
Although there are always diamonds in the grimiest seam, and I know some, it is common sense to see that if you crush the attractiveness of a job you will lower the average quality of the employees.
His approach was to treat it as just another game and it paid off as he showed no sign of nerves despite the extra responsibility of being one of only two seam bowlers in the Indian XI.
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The other option for Australia would be to include Brett Geeves, who like McKay has played two one-dayers but has yet to experience Test cricket, in an all-seam attack and rely on Marcus North and Michael Clarke to provide any spin they might need.
"I was trying to go up and in with a four-seam fastball, " Kuroda said through an interpreter.
It's simple, it just costs more to seam a sock in the U.S. than it does in China or Honduras.
And despite Bas Zuiderent making 67, they were all for 188 in the 49th over with seam bowler Blain taking 5-45.
Mohammad Aamer also took three wickets in conditions ideally suited to seam bowling, with Mike Hussey 39 not out when bad light brought an early finish.
Michael Vaughan's innings began with three unplayable deliveries from Kyle Mills, zipping away in the air and off the seam.
But if you took a little extra time with the heat gun you could shrink the plastic with just the right tension so the seam would stay even in the center of the box.
The concept of heating underground coal to a combustion point may lead one to recall Centralia, PA, an abandoned town in Pennsylvania sitting on a coal seam which has been burning for 50 years, but the UCG controlled process makes that outcome highly unlikely.
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The drop-in wicket provided only minimal swing and seam for the bowlers, and New Zealand's bowlers were simply rewarded for bowling accurately.
Matt Coles, 20, was the only Kent-born seam bowler to play regularly in the 2010 season, taking 27 first-class and 29 limited overs wickets.
Stand-in skipper Mark Wallace then turned to seam but, when he decided to take the second new ball, Middlesex only required 10 more to win.
It is a small drift mine - a mine cut into the side of a hill, where the coal seam is accessed by walking in.
Mr Carter is now able to mine the seam of musical material he discovered in earlier decades.
The geology in Texas allows for a mining procedure called "in situ" recovery, cheaper than traditional seam or open-pit mining.
It all looks nice at a passing glance, but as we gazed more closely, we noticed some wavy stitching in places on the dash, a loose seam on one of the sun visors and a number of pieces made from somewhat cheap-feeling plastic.
Candy watched as Marjorie attempted to work the needle through the material in the seed-size stitches required for the seam she was sewing.
It was the second match-fixing inquiry carried out in Pakistan, following Justice Qayyum's report two years ago which resulted in life bans for former captain Salim Malik and seam bowler Ata-ur-Rehman.
In reply, Bangladesh initially struggled against the Board XI seam attack of Pedro Collins, Jermaine Lawson, Dwight Washington and Wavell Hinds.
In fact, Golden China has hit on a broader seam of market discrepancies: the value of a share often depends on where the stock is floated.
But along with Brad Williams - thought unlucky by some to miss out as Gillespie's replacement - and Ashley Noffke, he is in the vanguard of Australia's next generation of seam bowlers.
Chigumbura, who is a seam bowler, has taken over 100 international wickets in all forms of the game.
With no pace in the wicket, and just a bit of swing and seam, Johnson and Ben Hilfenhaus bowled too straight and struggled to find the right length, allowing Strauss and Alastair Cook to tick along smoothly enough.
Seam bowler Shrubsole, also 18, has been in and around the squad since the summer of 2008, but her inclusion ahead of the more experienced Guha, who has taken more than 120 wickets for England in all forms of the game, represents something of a gamble.
Mike Whitney and Chris Matthews were given chances in the 1980s, but Australia's brightest left-arm seam bowling prospect from that era was Bruce Reid.
Such was the dominance of England's swing and seam bowlers, Swann was required to bowl only two overs in the entire first Test.
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