In the 50s, my school XI used to have an annual match with Lancashire Cricket Club at Old Trafford. This was in the days when Cyril Washbrook was the captain, and one of England's finest fast bowlers of the period - Brian Statham - played for the LCC. Statham was chatting to some of us youngsters after the match (the school lost...) and said that he put accuracy above pace every time. So, for example, he never rated himself faster than Freddy Truman, but he was more consistently accurate.

If you missed many of Statham's deliveries, you were out - simple as that - bowled.