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*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
omg how much do SL love appealing like mad men only for the replay to show it was safely in

that stumping celebration was woeful, as a keeper you usually know the batsman is safe there
 

Compton

International Debutant
Maxwell's turned up for these T20s to remind people that he may be a brainless ****, but he's a hella talented brainless ****.
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
it's funny people call him brainless coz in interviews he seems like a smart dude. I would use other words like arrogant, impatient and impulsive if I was to criticise his batting
 

91Jmay

International Coach
Khawaja just had a horror across all 3 formats. Needs big runs domestically you'd think to force his way back in, although he is superb in Aus.
 

TheJediBrah

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it's funny people call him brainless coz in interviews he seems like a smart dude. I would use other words like arrogant, impatient and impulsive if I was to criticise his batting
They're not even remotely related most of the time, which I know is quite ironic. I can tell you from experience that some of the most sensible cricketers, ie "intelligent" batsman in club cricket at least are often the least "intelligent" blokes, and there's often very little correlation between how book-smart or sensible you are as a person and how you bat. I'm easily the most intelligent person in any team I've played in but if you saw me bat you'd think I had absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Having said that though I don't really agree that Maxwell seems like a smart dude at all from what I've seen
 

DriveClub

International Regular
They're not even remotely related most of the time, which I know is quite ironic. I can tell you from experience that some of the most sensible cricketers, ie "intelligent" batsman in club cricket at least are often the least "intelligent" blokes, and there's often very little correlation between how book-smart or sensible you are as a person and how you bat. I'm easily the most intelligent person in any team I've played in but if you saw me bat you'd think I had absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Having said that though I don't really agree that Maxwell seems like a smart dude at all from what I've seen
Does your smartness correlation coefficient extend to your forum posting as well?
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Buttler & Billings?
I'm not sure if this was real or if I've imagined it (good possibility it's the latter tbf) but I'm sure I've seen Maxwell step down the track and overhead smash a bouncer over cover for 6.

Scoops and paddles and all that jazz are all well and good but I just love it when a batsman pulls off an outrageous shot that just shouldn't work like that.
 

Dan

Hall of Fame Member
I'm not sure if this was real or if I've imagined it (good possibility it's the latter tbf) but I'm sure I've seen Maxwell step down the track and overhead smash a bouncer over cover for 6.

Scoops and paddles and all that jazz are all well and good but I just love it when a batsman pulls off an outrageous shot that just shouldn't work like that.
Yeah, fair call. I was thinking along the lines of those Maxwell and Buttler hockey shots where they dig out near-yorkers for dead flat sixes over cover. Insane.
 

Spikey

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I didn't watch a single ball of the T20, but dead set has a man ever been more right about something than I was about picking a specialist keeper for T20
 

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