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Michael Clarke Discussion thread
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Burgey
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Don't really care tbh, as long as he keeps piling up the runs in Tests.
Johnners
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Would be intruiged to know how much these stats have changed since you made this post NUFAN (see this as, I cbf looking myself
) Easily our most reliable batsmen over the past 18 months. WAG
Would be intruiged to know how much these stats have changed since you made this post NUFAN (see this as, I cbf looking myself
) Easily our most reliable batsmen over the past 18 months. WAGJakester1288
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Future of Australian Test cricket, will be the 3, 4 or 5 for years to come. Possibly even captain soon enough. Will probably captain the Twenty20 team, even though he shouldn't even be playing, and ODI team after Ponting. I think he's still got it as an ODI player, Twenty20 is just way out of his league.
pup11
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I think Clarke really needs to decide which is the best way for him to bat, because the way he is batting atm, he is going to do no favours to either him or his team, and though its his ODI and T20 game that seems most effected by his current style of batting, but I think the effects have started to show in his test game as well, though the problem might not seem to be as obvious as it is in ODIs or T20.
A lot of people might say that since he has curtailed his aggression as a batsman he has been scoring runs at a very consistent rate in both Tests and ODIs, but I think those runs are not really hurting the opposition, and the problem is that with him being one of the more experieced and better players in the current side, he needs to make more an impression for a player of his class.
Mr Mxyzptlk
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If there's a question over his ODI status, I don't see why. He's a good ODI batsman, with a decent SR and a very good average. T20i is another story, because he doesn't seem very interested in it, isn't very good at it, and therefore shouldn't be playing it. Take some rest.
pasag
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He's just not good enough, anyone who has watched him a decent amount in ODIs over the past few years will tell you this. For a while there he was striking at 60 or something like that regularly. He used to be a gun but has been very ordinary for a long time now. He wastes balls, doesn't rotate the strike and MOST IMPORTANTLY often kills the momentum in our innings so no matter how good a start our openers get he ruins it. Put simply, he doesn't have a second gear, and as a middle order ODI bat, you need one.
Oh and he's one of the worst T20 players in the world.
Mr Mxyzptlk
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I suppose he has been poor of late, and Australia probably have a plethora of replacements. Is it possible for him to play ODIs for WI while playing Tests for Australia?
Streetwise
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This is a joke right, Clarke has averaged over 50 with a strike rate around 70 over the last 15 odd games.
Australia are winning and Clarke is doing his job.
Australia are winning and Clarke is doing his job.
Richard
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Depends who their bowlers are - if they had McGrath, Gillespie and Warne it might very well be.
Either way haven't really followed Australia's ODIs with enough attention-to-detail in recent months to be saying whether he should be playing them but suffice to say he should probably be the first name on the Test teamsheet apart from Brad Haddin right now. Obviously couldn't care less about Twenty20s but have gathered from what various posts have posted down the years that he's rather bad at them.
Either way haven't really followed Australia's ODIs with enough attention-to-detail in recent months to be saying whether he should be playing them but suffice to say he should probably be the first name on the Test teamsheet apart from Brad Haddin right now. Obviously couldn't care less about Twenty20s but have gathered from what various posts have posted down the years that he's rather bad at them.
Nate
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In his last ten ODIs, he is indeed averaging 48.00. But he's hitting them at a strike-rate of 68. Regardless, it's not even really about his stats, he looks bad. The pressure he puts on the side, both with his slow scoring and running between the wickets, is inexcusable.
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vic_orthdox
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Clarke has been improving a bit with regards to rotation of the strike; there are definitely less dot balls between the singles than when he was at the worst of his slump.
Streetwise
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I'm not defending an Australian, There is nothing to defend here.
Clarke is a middle overs batsman and very rarely bats in the first 15 overs during the powerplays and generally gone by the time the last powerplay is taken. I dont think I have seen a much more stupider arguement on here. You only need to score more runs than the opposition to win and Australia with Clarke are pretty good at that.
On top of that the reason Pakistan just lost so comprehensively to Australia is because they didnt have a batsman that could score 50-80 runs in the middle of the innings at a strike rate of around 70-75.