when you have guys like munro turning up to play for you in tests you're going to big up any decent prospect you have tbf.
when you have guys like munro turning up to play for you in tests you're going to big up any decent prospect you have tbf.
What do people make of Asad Shafiq. Played a good knock against the best in the world on their own home turf.
Williamson looks a much better player than his pathetic average of 30 suggests.
shakib, nasir, rahim looking pretty good now also.
That would be because he is.
He's underperformed somewhat in his test career to date I'll admit that, inconsistancy has plagued him pretty badly. But some of the expectations people seem to have placed on him are just totally ridiculously, it's as though he should be averaging 45+ and because he isn't he's some sort of cricketing bust. Newsflash, test cricket is tough. It is especially tough when you're a young batsmen trying to make it in a team that is as bad as this New Zealand one as been over the past three or so years. He's also come into the New Zealand team where we've played a lot of test cricket recently (for us anyway) but very little of it at home, 21 test matches and he's played 1/3 them at home.
He might not have the record so far that a few other young batsmen have managed but his overall game is right up there, you only have to watch him for five minutes to see that.
Williamson's problem is he's a flawed young middle order batsman playing as a de facto opener.
He's not the best young batsman right now, Pujara is. cbf predicting which of this lot will be the best because I'll be wrong anyway.
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