Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
Suppose you are the captain of a cricket team.. You have a very talented top order batsman in your side, a match winner (say someone like Kevin Pieterson or Michael Clarke) who hasn't scored a century in the last two years.
However, he still averages about 45 during the last 2 years because he has been scoring half centuries pretty consistently. He is not at his best form, not at his peak, he struggles during the early phase of his innings, but somehow struggles hard and manages to score an 80 or 64 from time to time. Meaning he is not in woeful form and is not a walking wicket either.
You have batsmen in your first class teams who are currently in better form, scoring centuries and averaging over 50.
The reason I am asking this is currently I am in this situation while playing the game International Cricket Captain 2009.
I am now in 2014 and Umar Akmal is 48 test matches old. He averages 46 with the bat, but hasn't scored a test century in the last 2 years. I have had to drop him from the ODI side but he has been scoring half centuries pretty consistently (12 half centuries from 16 test matches) in the last 2 years (though at a strike rate of 40 or less, and if I try to make him play a bit aggressively, he gets out, meaning he is not at his best form by any means). He is my number 4-5 batsman but I have a lot of young players now who are averaging well over 50 and are in sublime form. I am not sure what to do.
However, he still averages about 45 during the last 2 years because he has been scoring half centuries pretty consistently. He is not at his best form, not at his peak, he struggles during the early phase of his innings, but somehow struggles hard and manages to score an 80 or 64 from time to time. Meaning he is not in woeful form and is not a walking wicket either.
You have batsmen in your first class teams who are currently in better form, scoring centuries and averaging over 50.
The reason I am asking this is currently I am in this situation while playing the game International Cricket Captain 2009.
I am now in 2014 and Umar Akmal is 48 test matches old. He averages 46 with the bat, but hasn't scored a test century in the last 2 years. I have had to drop him from the ODI side but he has been scoring half centuries pretty consistently (12 half centuries from 16 test matches) in the last 2 years (though at a strike rate of 40 or less, and if I try to make him play a bit aggressively, he gets out, meaning he is not at his best form by any means). He is my number 4-5 batsman but I have a lot of young players now who are averaging well over 50 and are in sublime form. I am not sure what to do.
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