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  1. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    You have still comprehensively failed to list anyone who had a comparable body of work (or lack thereof) before entering Test cricket to Konstas and genuinely made a early success of it. Nobody. Not a one. His Shield record before Tests for those wondering: 10, 23 26, 35 4 57 152, 105 2, 43 28...
  2. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    Good to see Khawaja back playing Shield cricket
  3. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    Seriously what are you even on about? Citing players who were playing when the horse and cart was still a popular form of transport as relevant examples for the modern day is just so obviously and blatantly ridiculous, if you can't handle being called out on the sheer absurdity of that that's...
  4. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    Duminy, as far as I can tell from a cursory look on crapinfo, made his First Class debut in this game back in February 2002. That's not exactly shortly before December 2008. Honestly I was genuinely astonished that you even mentioned him in the first place, whatever that list is that you said...
  5. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    OK now that is just blatant bad faith strawmanning. You know full well my viewpoint was that the amount of FC games he had played was insufficient, to try and suggest I was saying something different as intellectually dishonest as it gets. Seriously bemused by JP Duminy getting a mention too...
  6. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    I do see where you are coming from to an extent, my issue is that the early season form you speak of consisted of one superb Shield game (where he didn't try the ramps really at all) and then a mickey mouse 15 a side game (where he did ramp and play other such shots quite a lot). That isn't...
  7. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    Also on a better note, half a chance I might be going to the 50 over final tomorrow
  8. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    Ahh jfc here we go again. I genuinely cannot conceive the mind of anyone who can look at the way Konstas played in that last Shield game and not come to the conclusion that he was a player so clearly and obviously confused on how to approach things. At the end of the day, batting is still...
  9. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    This sort of thing is exactly what I'm talking about with short sighted thinking. Putting so much stock in such a small sample size of games is just completely the wrong way of going about things, you need to look at a larger body of work to at least semi accurately gauge how any player...
  10. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    Anyway in the vauge and probably forlorn hope of getting this thread back on track, as much as there is definitely strong argument that Bartlett should be in the Champions Trophy team, it is pleasing to see him getting a good amount of Sheffield Shield overs in again
  11. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    No because it's so long ago that it's not in the slightest bit relevant to anything that happens in the modern game. Professionalism and structure in the game both international and domestic has came so incredibly far that it really might as well be a whole different sport. Like I said, apples...
  12. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    Of course I do what his record was, excellent in one game and merely OK outside of that. In no universe whatsoever is that even close to a large enough sample size to indicate being ready for test cricket. And as for the last bit, it's because there is no validity in such blatantly apples and...
  13. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    What evidence? What specialist bat has Australia picked after so little FC experience who has went on to establish themselves as a permanent fixture straight away? I'll wait
  14. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    It is never a good decision to pick somebody for Tests who has played so little prefessional cricket under any circumstances at all. Trying to make the "pick him while he's hot" argument doesn't hold any water at all on the basis that you need to be looking over a considerably longer time...
  15. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    You are still missing the entire point. No cricketer on the face of the planet, no matter how naturally talented, knows their own game anywhere near enough after so little first class cricket. I agree that it was definitely a directive for him to bat like that, but doing such a thing to someone...
  16. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    Always liked Fawad, a quality bowler and a quality human being Did once stride out to the crease in a Shield game without a bat though
  17. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    That really isn't particularly accurate, at least of his time in South Australia. While his form had definitely been patchy, he himself decided to take a break from domestic cricket in his last season here, he was still easily better than the alternative options (as we can see by Kelvin Smith...
  18. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    I thought it was pretty bloody good myself Seriously though, while the ball to get Ward was undoubtedly pretty ordinary, Doggett has started pretty well outside of that
  19. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    In other news, must say it is good to say Davies actually make it to 50 without throwing it away for once
  20. GoodAreasShane

    2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

    Yeah it's bloody grim Time for a beer I suppose

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