Steven Finn: Look out Australia - I'm going to bore you to death!

By Paul Newman for the Daily Mail
報告（する）／憶測s from Adelaide
Updated: 00:46 BST, 11 November 2010

Steven Finn does not want to 始める，決める pulses racing with the ferocity and 敵意 of his bowling on his first visit to Australia. He 簡単に wants to be boring.

When the novice in England’s bowling pack says he wants to emulate one of his childhood idols and now his 助言者 Angus Fraser in 存在 boring it is meant in the nicest possible way. For boring, in Finn’s 事例／患者, will equate to 有効性 with the ball during the biggest couple of months of his life.

‘To have Angus at Middlesex to talk to day in day out about bowling has been fantastic,’ said Finn.

Walking tall: Finn

‘We’ve had a good few 雑談（する）s and a coupl e of lunches in the build-up to this 小旅行する and to be able to talk to someone who was such a good bowler helps massively. You know what Gus was like. He 手配中の，お尋ね者 to bore batsmen out and he has just 強調d to me the need to be 一貫した. He wants me to be boring and that’s what I want to be ? but not when I’m talking to you blokes!’

Fraser, now the director of cricket at Middlesex, would be the picture of 悲惨 whenever he was struck for four and you can see his 影響（力） on his young 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 when Finn 目的（とする）s the 半端物 kick at the turf in 失望／欲求不満 or produces the ‘二塁打 tea-マリファナ’ if things do not go his way. England can only hope he does not have to 訴える手段／行楽地 to Fraser-like 団体／死体 language too often in the Ashes.?

The need for Finn to be 一貫した is a 決定的な one. It was perfectly 論証するd during England’s 勝利，勝つ over Western Australia in Perth when a poor first innings 業績／成果 from Finn was 取って代わるd by a match-defining （一定の）期間 at the start of the last day.?

He cannot afford to have too many poor （一定の）期間s as the most inexperienced member of England’s four-man bowling attack and with Chris Tremlett, impressive in yesterday’s 逮捕するs 開会／開廷／会期, waiting in the wings.

Consistency, of course, can come with experience and it is 価値（がある） remembering that Finn, still only 21, has come a long way in a short space of time. This time last year he was a bowler of かなりの 約束 but 限られた／立憲的な 業績／成就 with the England 業績／成果 Squad but now he is one of the four men ゆだねるd to take 20 wickets in each 実験（する） and 勝利，勝つ the Ashes for England.

‘I never dreamt a year ago I would be here now,’ said the personable Finn. ‘It never crossed my mind. I’d come off an ok season with Middlesex, I hadn’t 始める，決める the world alight I was just 安定した, but I got the chance to put mysel f out there with the EPP in South Africa and Dubai and here I am.

‘I’m still nowhere 近づく the bowler I need to be to be 終始一貫して successful in international cricket and it was important for me to work on my consistency which is what I’ve been doing. I can’t afford to go at three and a half or four an over here.’

まとまり: Finn is congratulated by his team-mates after taking the wicket of Western Australia's Liam Davis

The 巨大（な） Finn would not have been in a position where he has already played in eight 実験（する）s and is on an Ashes 小旅行する if he had taken the place at Loughborough University to 熟考する／考慮する sports science that was his after he finished his A levels soon after England were 存在 thrashed 5-0 in Australia.

He pulled out the day before his course was 予定 to start to concentrate on cricket -? his mum wasn’t sure he was doing the 権利 thing but supported his 決定／判定勝ち（する） -? but that could turn out to be the best 決定／判定勝ち（する） of his life if he goes on to fulfil his 広大な 可能性のある.????

Finn is already enjoying himself. ‘I’m loving it. It’s a fantastic place to be and the people have been really friendly so far,’ he said.

‘They’ve welcomed us and we really feel at home at the moment. It will get tougher as the cricket 強めるs but at the moment we’re in a really good place.’

There was one Australian who was not too friendly when Finn was fielding on the 境界 at the WACA. ‘I’ve had a bit of 乱用 from the （人が）群がる already,’ smiled Finn. ‘This bloke told me that bowling short and wide wasn’t going to get me wickets and all I could say was ‘fair enough, I don’t think it will…’

Finn quickly got much better in Perth. Now he needs to make sure he remains England’s Mr Boring. Angus would 認可する.