Kyle Jamieson downplays hype around Duke ball, looks to replicate Stuart Broad's style of bowling

New Zealand young pace sensation Kyle Jamieson has warned his teammates against getting carried away with the expectations of extracting too much help in the air and out of the surface with the duke ball. 

In a media interaction, Jamieson said that New Zealand bowlers have experience of bowling in helpful conditions back home but with the Kookaburra balls and hence if they go on for searching a lot of help, they would end up losing accuracy.

"You don't want to start trying to move the ball two sets of stumps and then get caught on the bounce. We've found favourable conditions in New Zealand at times, albeit not with the Dukes ball, and we are mindful of the fact that if you start searching too much, you can get hurt a little bit,” Jamieson said.

New Zealand players who were to travel to the UK for the Test series practised with the duke ball in a preparation camp in Lincoln. The likes of Jamieson was not part of that group although interestingly he had a pair of duke balls with him in the kits while at the IPL 2021. Jamieson reiterated that the duke ball will not swing straightway and all the time and hence bowlers will have to bowl disciplined line and lengths.

"He [Shane Jurgensen, the New Zealand bowling coach] hid those two Duke balls in my bag but I didn't get a chance to use them. There's a lot of talk around how much the Dukes ball can move but it also doesn't necessarily move all the time and it can take a while for it to start going,” Jamieson added.

It will be Jamieson’s first opportunity to bowl in the longest format out of New Zealand and the tall bowler is looking to model the bowling styles of Stuart Broad, who relies a lot on the wobble and scramble seam to deceive batsmen with unexpected nature and amount of movement.

"I'm certainly excited by the chance of it moving around little bit. The part of the next few days [will be] to gauge around what the ball feels like and how much it's going to move. We've seen in previous English summers the likes of [Stuart] Broad using the scrambled seam or wobbled seam ball. We'll try and play around that and gauge the effective way to operate,” Jamieson said.