I remember once PEWS talking about Brendon McCullum here saying anyone can go in and play a lot of shots and have it come off once in 5 innings and then look like a great batsman who is not concentrating hard enough. Think it applies for Maxwell. Natural talent, even at its loosest definition, does not mean the ability to play a cover drive or a pull shot alone, it is also about being able to pick which ball to play that shot to. His whole attitude of "I base my shot on the field placings than the ball itself" is just the dumbest I have ever heard a cricketer say reg. the actual intricacies of the game. You cant cover drive a bouncer no matter what the field is. You just can't. Just because he times the ball well does not mean he is naturally "talented". Ability to read length and line is just as much a part of the "natural talent" of a batsman as anything, even in the way we use it around here, and he is, quite simply, not talented enough to be a test batsman, unless he puts in a lot of determination and hard work, which has worked for many others, some of these examples having been brought up in this very thread.
Lets stop pretending he is talented in the Hooper or others of that ilk style. He is not, plain and simple.
