Bouncing bomb: pace attack targets soft spot

By Chris Barrett
December 29 2012 - 3:00am
December 28, 2012 ... Dhammika Prasad is struck on the hand by Johnson and calls for the team physio as play is delayed, but does not leave the field.
December 28, 2012 ... Dhammika Prasad is struck on the hand by Johnson and calls for the team physio as play is delayed, but does not leave the field.

MITCHELL JOHNSON has hurt opposition batsmen before. Just ask Graeme Smith or Jacques Kallis, who have felt the full force of the Australian left-armer when he turns predator. Add to that list another modern-day great, Kumar Sangakkara, who, amid Sri Lanka's disastrous defeat in Melbourne, received a blow from a Johnson bouncer so serious he went under the knife.

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