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*Official* Road to 2013 Ashes
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uvelocity
International Coach
there have been a few blunders though. perth. sydney. melbourne arguably. india. contract list. expect a couple for the ashes. when you have major challenges with depth and talent every post needs to be made a winner, starting to feel like the skipper was changed but still sailing on a ship of fools. we still don't have the batsmen, but....
One of the strangest things that has been said by Invers is that they are looking for batsmen who can score in all 3 forms of the game
Sorry mate but there are **** all in world cricket that do that so the chances of us producing 6 are somewhere between nought and zero
Sorry mate but there are **** all in world cricket that do that so the chances of us producing 6 are somewhere between nought and zero
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
yeah.. I can understand looking for 2 or 3 batsmen in the XI and maybe 4 or 5 in the squad to remain constant across the 3 formats but to publicly state that that is what you are looking for, is confusing. It is one thing to say that future batsmen should look to be good enough to perform in all 3 formats but quite another to say that is how you are gonna base your selections.
the big bambino
International Captain
It is a weird thing to say and contradicted anyway by the contracts given to guys who can't bat to save themselves in tests. If that has to be his stated aim then I'd atleast wish that in not honouring it, he'd bias for test batsmen.
Maximas
Cricketer Of The Year
All three formats? Is that why Warner/Wade are highly rated?
even if we don't have particularly good batsmen right now, better off picking them than the crappy all-rounders who are even worse. Finding good young batsmen has been a problem for just about every country playing tests, batsmen simply aren't groomed properly to play test cricket, they play too much one-day and t20 cricket as juniors.
even if we don't have particularly good batsmen right now, better off picking them than the crappy all-rounders who are even worse. Finding good young batsmen has been a problem for just about every country playing tests, batsmen simply aren't groomed properly to play test cricket, they play too much one-day and t20 cricket as juniors.
Red
The normal awards that everyone else has
My list for Santa
Chris Rogers
Ed Cowan
Mark Cosgrove
Shane Watson
Michael Clarke
Dave Warner
Brad Haddin
James Pattinson
Mitchell Starc
Ryan Harris
Nathan Lyon
Plus:
Ashton Agar
Steve Smith
Moises Henriques
Matthew Wade
Peter Siddle
Jackson Bird
James Faulkner
Chris Rogers
Ed Cowan
Mark Cosgrove
Shane Watson
Michael Clarke
Dave Warner
Brad Haddin
James Pattinson
Mitchell Starc
Ryan Harris
Nathan Lyon
Plus:
Ashton Agar
Steve Smith
Moises Henriques
Matthew Wade
Peter Siddle
Jackson Bird
James Faulkner
wellAlbidarned
International Coach
That's always been the case though. Kids don't have time for multi-day cricket, you only start the two innings stuff late in high-school.
When I first played A-grade, there was virtually no one-day cricket and most games were 2-day affairs played over consecutive weekends
As a batsman, you had to really make an innings count as you might only get 1 innings every 3 weeks (day 1 of first game, day 2 of second) so you would think that it would teach people to value their wickets, etc
Unfortunately, the "evidence' contradicts this as that period coincided with Australia's worst ever ranking - dead last in the mid-80s
IMO, our lack of batting depth atm has little to do with what is being played and more to do with lack of talent
uvelocity
International Coach
2 innings cricket still is played even at under 12 age as the standard format
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Have to move the matches on the Gold Coast to Sea World though so they can maintain interest.
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I will when spikey tallies up the bbl prediction scores.
the big bambino
International Captain
Yeah but we had 2 sides playing at the time.
Crazy Sam
International 12th Man
Interesting comments from double centurion Jason Gillespie on Shane Watson
'Watson hasn't been doing the job' | Fox Sports
'Watson hasn't been doing the job' | Fox Sports
Maximas
Cricketer Of The Year
I agree,I have been calling for Watson to be dropped since the Sri Lanka tests. Just because he is VC and he 'looks' like he will score runs doesn't mean he should stay in the side. It's time to blood a new batsman -either Khawaja, Burns or Doolan to replace this joke of a cricketer.
LongHopCassidy
International Captain
Honestly, I think Watson should reinvent himself as a bowling all rounder at 6. Takes the pressure off being neither top order nor frontline bowler, and if he fails from there he only has himself to blame.
Not a lot of red ball cricket left to prove it, mind.
Not a lot of red ball cricket left to prove it, mind.
LongHopCassidy
International Captain
Maximas
Cricketer Of The Year
Sorry man but his FC stats just don't back him up as a test quality player - look at what happened to every other Aus player who got selected in tests on the back of ODI performances. Mind you, Bailey just scored a composed 93 in a county game, I may change my mind on Bailey if he has a good run in County cricket.