Will be interesting to see if he can show anything else this summer instead of what we've had for the last two years.Pleased to see Gutpill's worked on his ability to rotate the strike early on in the off season.
Seems McHesson and Co have allowed him that license. No chance of winning a WC with your opener consistently striking at under 20% with the off chance that he'll convert a decent score once every 5 innings. This can't continue.
It's the apparent 'acceptance' of it that bothers me more than anything else. No other ODI opener in the world would get away with it.
I suspect roughly have the ODI sides in the world would have let a player with Guptill's record "get away with it" to this point. Obviously no one outside of the top 6-7 would let it continue indefinitely though. But his S/R in 2013 was 90+
It's his 2014 SR of 69 (in 9 ODI's) that bothers me more.
I don't think it's being completely accepted. Hesson has a lot of top order batsmen in the squad. Brownlie and Neesham have been asked to open, Latham can do the job too.
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