Salamuddin
International Debutant
Australia are going to lose this Ashes. And it is because their batting isn't good enough.
The holes in their batting were glossed over in this home summer's success but they have always been there.
It's not hard to see why:
1) Warner is formidable in Australia but an average player outside Australia.
2) Rogers is an average talent - lets' be perfectly frank about this. He's done ok in England but England is like a second home to him given how much county cricket he has played. He was thoroughly exposed when he played the South Africans last year. He's really lucky that he's only played in England or rather soft opposition (England, INdia)
at home. He's damn lucky he's retiring at the end of this series because I think he would be a dead duck in subcontinental conditions when Australia tour in 2016 /2017.
3) Smith - world class
4) Clarke - world class but clearly on the wane now.
5) Voges - another journeyman - let's make no bones about it. Voges has only made the Aussie team due to the complete paucity in Australian batting stocks.
If he was genuinely world class he would made the Aussie team earlier than he actually did.
6) Watto - crap
7) Haddin - has never been much of a run scorer outside Australia and of late hasn't even made runs at home.
Shaun Marsh the reserve - is a wildly inconsistent player.
AUstralia missed a massive opportunity this summer (at home against India and away to a young WIndies side) to entrench some promising young players with real talent fr the future in their top seven (joe BUrns, Mitch Marsh, Jordan Silk, Peter Neville) and they are going to pay a big price for that - in terms of coughing up the Ashes to the POms.
The holes in their batting were glossed over in this home summer's success but they have always been there.
It's not hard to see why:
1) Warner is formidable in Australia but an average player outside Australia.
2) Rogers is an average talent - lets' be perfectly frank about this. He's done ok in England but England is like a second home to him given how much county cricket he has played. He was thoroughly exposed when he played the South Africans last year. He's really lucky that he's only played in England or rather soft opposition (England, INdia)
at home. He's damn lucky he's retiring at the end of this series because I think he would be a dead duck in subcontinental conditions when Australia tour in 2016 /2017.
3) Smith - world class
4) Clarke - world class but clearly on the wane now.
5) Voges - another journeyman - let's make no bones about it. Voges has only made the Aussie team due to the complete paucity in Australian batting stocks.
If he was genuinely world class he would made the Aussie team earlier than he actually did.
6) Watto - crap
7) Haddin - has never been much of a run scorer outside Australia and of late hasn't even made runs at home.
Shaun Marsh the reserve - is a wildly inconsistent player.
AUstralia missed a massive opportunity this summer (at home against India and away to a young WIndies side) to entrench some promising young players with real talent fr the future in their top seven (joe BUrns, Mitch Marsh, Jordan Silk, Peter Neville) and they are going to pay a big price for that - in terms of coughing up the Ashes to the POms.
