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Originally Posted by Matt79
As a right now thing, sure. That's a call I'm making in full consciousness (but admittedly without explicitly stating it) that it anticipating future performances. That said, I'm very confident KP will fulfill that anticipation.
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I see. Well, I've said many times that I like to assess players for these purposes only once their careers are over - predicting future performances seems fairly pointless to me TBH. Might as well just wait and see.
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For Hutton, for these exercises, I dislike selecting players out of position. Hutton was an opener, and when there are middle order players of the quality of Hammond, Barrington and Pietersen, not to mention others like Leyland and Gower, to chose from, don't feel the need to try to turn him into a middle order player. Remember as well that I'm basing this only on Ashes performances, not their over all records as players.
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I don't like selecting players wildly out-of-position either, but there's any number of openers who've had success at three and I see absolutely no reason why Hutton would not perform as well at three as he did at the top.
If it was a question of putting Hutton at five or six that'd be a different matter.