Richard
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It is perfectly acceptible.marc71178 said:Oh, and that's so much more acceptable isn't it
Whatever the reasons, 4-an-over is an acceptible threshold in one-day cricket and has been for years.
It is perfectly acceptible.marc71178 said:Oh, and that's so much more acceptable isn't it
Richard to serve - love one.a massive zebra said:It would be interesting to see what people think several months on.
good pointSteulen said:Probably stated in this thread by someone before...but his shot selection is so overdone in one-dayers. Case in point: McGrath bowls 4 maiden overs, in the 5th over Vaughan decides to try and do something about it...by slogging the ball straight to a fielder. Why not try and ease your way out of trouble?
I think he just wants to get on with it a little bit too badly
It does amuse me to see 2 threads dug up in one day.luckyeddie said:Richard to serve - love one.
Kallis and Dravid have almost always been good players with good one-day records. While they might be boundary-hitters in Tests they change their game for ODIs - something Hayden, Vaughan and Laxman are clearly incapable of doing, having played one-day cricket for a long, long time now.FaaipDeOiad said:Honestly, I just think he's a bit too boundary reliant. From what I've seen of him, he really struggles just to turn the strike over. It's actually a similar problem to what Matthew Hayden runs into at times, but Hayden is better at turning the strike over by a bit, better at finding the gaps for boundaries and also opens the batting so gets to play most of his cricket with the field up.
Maybe's that's a bit of an answer for Vaughan? Then again he's probably opened plenty in OD games without having that much success, so I'm not sure. He just needs to work on picking up more singles and playing an anchor role like other somewhat dour boundary-reliant middle order batsmen like Kallis, Dravid etc do and manage to be effective.
and you think hussain merited a place for his batting during this period:Richard said:No, Hussain while not the best ODI player you'll see always merited a place in the side - just a shame he so often insisted on batting three.
Vaughan has never, ever merited a place in the side.
Nonetheless, there's currently no case for dropping him, and this record is even better when you knock-out the Bangladesh game.
A run of low scores is surely just around the corner, and at that point it just might be time to give-up on the idea of Vaughan ever making a ODI-class player once-and-for-all.
Which is why Hayden averages more than Adam Gilchrist, Sanath Jayasuria etc at a respectable strike rate, is it?Richard said:Kallis and Dravid have almost always been good players with good one-day records. While they might be boundary-hitters in Tests they change their game for ODIs - something Hayden, Vaughan and Laxman are clearly incapable of doing, having played one-day cricket for a long, long time now.
Gilchrist and Hayden open in the same team, and face the same bowling!Richard said:That's due to the poor standard of bowling.
Anyone with any cricketing clout whatsoever can tell Jayasuriya and Gilchrist are infinately better ODI batsmen than Hayden.