From the moment James Pattinson was named to replace Mitchell Starc for the Test match in Hobart, Cricket Australia and all those who see him as the great untapped lode of Australian fast bowling would have begun holding their breath. In his four-year international career, a national call-up for Pattinson has triggered enormous excitement followed by serious injury. So frequent have his absences been, it is easy to forget that he – ahead of Starc and Josh Hazlewood, ahead of Patrick Cummins, Jackson Bird and Nathan Coulter-Nile, even ahead of the retired Mitchell Johnson and Ryan Harris – has been seen since 2011 as the...
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