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Originally Posted by tooextracool
If he had a good series, he wouldnt not have been dropped in favor of Symonds.
I think when someone scores 203, and then in 5 other innings cant even manage 1/4 of that it suggests that its merely a deviation from the norm.
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But that is how batting typically works though. Batsmen that average 40 don't usually score around that mark on every occassion - out of ten innings, they'll usually get about one ton, three four half centuries and the rest average scores. Usually a not out or two in there somewhere as well. The ton is going to look out of place so you'd want to remove it, but then their average is going to look ordinary.
As far as your argument is concerned, there was no difference between Hodge going out there and scoring 26 and Hodge going out there and scoring 500*. When you get that situation, you know your agument is flawed.
As as far as his dropping is concerned, he wasn't dropped in favour of Symonds any more than he was dropped in favour of Brett Lee. Symonds was in the team as an allrounder - Hodge was dropped for Damien Martyn in favour of Hayden, Langer, Ponting and Hussey. He was dropped because it was obvious there were flaws in his technique that opposition teams were being to discover and work on - he wasn't dropped because he had a bad series.
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Originally Posted by tooextracool
At the end of the day Lee averaging 24 and Bracken averaging 24 arent really match winning contributions.
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Whenever someone does make a match-winning contribution though, you write it off as an anomoly anyway, so it wouldn't matter.