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  1. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    No coach or captain can question the work ethic of his player either openly or behind closed doors because its pretty hard to back those accusations with proof, this seemingly stupid exercise though seems to have exposed the lack of discipline and professionalism on part of these players and...
  2. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Not buying what Arthur is selling here, there is definitely more to this then just these four players failing to submit their essay to the headmaster. I mean Clarke and Arthur since taking over have had a single minded determined approach towards making Australia the best side in the world...
  3. pup11

    ***Official*** Australian Domestic Thread 2012/13

    He is basically a bowler in the Copeland-Butterworth mould (not as tall as those guys), bowls military meds and depends on the surface to do all the heavy lifting for him as a bowler. Anyways.... game going on between Vics and The Blues at the G and another Shield batting line-up this season...
  4. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Sure batting has been disappointing but the bowling has been equally disappointing as well, 380 in Chennai on that sort of pitch was a pretty decent effort, but still allowing India to score 500 plus on that pitch was a pretty dire, it only looks worse when you consider that almost 200 runs were...
  5. pup11

    Australian cricket selection

    Sure mate I have, he has had a few games where he has leaked a lot of runs without taking many wickets hence his average has kept fluctuating, but the fact of the matter is if someone like Starc stays fit and plays international cricket for a decent length of time, then he would take a lot...
  6. pup11

    Australian cricket selection

    Starc, Pattinson and Cummins all had FC averages of 30 or above before making their test debuts and their test averages are much lower than that, even Hazelwood has an average of 30 plus in FC cricket.
  7. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Are we sending a back up player for Bird or have we given up on this series already, the replacement player has to be SOK but given the kind of moves he has made recently its pretty unlikely he would be playing for Australia anytime soon, in that case we should send Coulter-Nile who for me along...
  8. pup11

    ***Official*** Australian Domestic Thread 2012/13

    Mennie taking wickets is understandable but guys like Sayers taking that many wickets that too despite playing half his games in South Australia pretty much sums up everything that's wrong with the Australian first class cricket atm, made me cringe when I read somewhere that he could be bolter...
  9. pup11

    *Official* Road to 2013 Ashes

    Not sure how this is anything but good news for us especially given the number of left handers we have in the batting line-up.
  10. pup11

    ***Official*** Australian Domestic Thread 2012/13

    Thanks for letting me know Mr.Seth MacFarlane.....
  11. pup11

    ***Official*** Australian Domestic Thread 2012/13

    Anyone knows what happened to Peter George? He had seriously good numbers for a guy who plays most of his cricket in South Australia and without doubt was a national prospect.
  12. pup11

    Australian cricket selection

    I don't get this fascination with averages, guys like Pattinson, Starc and Cummins all have pretty unflattering FC numbers but their international performances have been top notch, whereas its for all to see how well guys like Cowan, Hastings and Quiney have performed at the international level...
  13. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    There is gap of almost 24 months between the test debuts of Doherty and Maxwell and between that period 17 blokes made their test debuts and the thing is a lot of those guys are highly unlikely to play for Australia ever again. So to say this is the team isn't really fair because for all we...
  14. pup11

    *Official* Road to 2013 Ashes

    Should have thought about this before making a South African the coach of the national team.
  15. pup11

    Australian cricket in limbo?

    No we won't especially with the kind of comprises we are making with our playing XI at this point of time, we have no stability in our team and probably apart from Clarke every member of the current squad plays with a sense of insecurity and with these sort of problems its pretty hard to develop...
  16. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Smith is the best player of spin among the younger bunch of batsmen that we have got, that's mainly because he uses his feet to come down to the pitch of the ball, the problem with him is that he would make a good looking 30-40 and then get himself out, that's primarily the reason why he has...
  17. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Lyon really doesn't have to compete with anyone for a spot given the current spin stocks but for Hughes if he is dropped now and the guy replacing him comes in and starts averaging 30 (because that seems to be the new bechmark), then Hughes probably could have to spend another 12-18 months on...
  18. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    I haven't really dug into any stats but, if I'm not wrong almost every time Hughes has scored anything less than 30-35 runs the whole Australian batting line-up has struggled in general, so its definitely not a case of him failing while everyone else around him are making big runs. As Clarke...
  19. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Last time I checked only 17% of the total balls bowled in the last few Australian FC seasons have been bowled by spinners so that's hardly providing enough practice against spin to the next gen batsmen, to make matters worse the quality or skill level of spin they are facing is nothing compared...
  20. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    You can have all the talent in the world but without the right attitude its not going to take you very far, Shaun Marsh is pretty good example of this.

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