i did, and although my devils advocate approach might be over critical, i stand by my sentiments that he is no more than a rank average player, and will be found out to a greater extent than he has already. Will he be in the test side 2 years down the line ? personally i doubt it very much.Honestly did you watch a single ODI he played against SL and Pakistan recently.
Once again I am confused as to why you bring up tests, when I've never tried to doubt your claim.sledger said:i did, and although my devils advocate approach might be over critical, i stand by my sentiments that he is no more than a rank average player, and will be found out to a greater extent than he has already. Will he be in the test side 2 years down the line ? personally i doubt it very much.
But the guy who ranked him high made it clear that he did it based on his ODI performances. Why do you have to disagree with him then? It is clear that tests are not important for that person.sledger said:nothing at all, i dont doubt his capabilities to be a destructive one day batsman, all i'm saying is that you can be that without neccesarily possesing much talent.
It is even filtering into test cricket now. Otherwise Jones and Dhoni would have never played over Read and Kaarthick.sledger said:yeah fair enough mate, agree with what you have said there, although the fact that keeping ability alone is being more and more overlooked by the people in high positions for me is a cause for concern.
I remember the success of Jayasuriya having a similar effect on all teams. Heck, even a minorly succesful strategy like that of Symcox or Klusener at 3 as pinch hitters made all teams look for one. I can never forget the day Kumble came out as India's pinch hitter. Felt India had hit a new low then. Thank God for Pathan.sledger said:i can understand why jones got a chance ahead of read, but i would say that either jones is persisted with (as hes not dreadful, just poor) or read returns, trying prior would be a step in the right direction, but as far as im concerned karthik should never have been dropped from the test side, his ability keeping and batting in terms of test standard is far superior to dhonis, a sad state of affairs really, and too many people ttrying to emulate the success of gilchrist.