Key is technically a very good player - needs to put a higher price on his wicket though.twctopcat said:
Its impossibly to say, but you can make a rough guess as to whether or not he looks to be comfortable against spin by looking just at the way he bats.social said:
i repeat, ponting will not go down as an all time great if he continues to be as abysmal as he has been in india. its simply impossibly to go down as an all time great if you have such an obvious weakness. if strauss does the same, he wont to.social said:
i dont know about that, strauss plays spin in a very similar fashion that trescothick does, and tresco is a fairly good player of spin.social said:
Even if Hayden is susceptible on seaming wickets (something I believe to be a fallacy), I have no doubt that if you produced a contract to Strauss guaranteeing him a record similar to Hayden's after 65 tests or whatever, he would knock you over in the rush to put pen to paper.tooextracool said:
nope the conditions were flat, there was a cloud cover at the start of the game which led hussain to thinking that it migh move about. of course with the sun coming out in the first half of the first session, it proved to be a really poor decision. nonetheless i might also add that hayden was dropped 3 times in that inning, so whatever way we look at it, he was fortunate to score those runs.social said:
if strauss had the same record as hayden, he would in all likelyhood have succeeded on seamer friendly wickets already because he would be playing half of his tests in england where you could expect at least 1 out of 3 tests to assist the bowlers significantly. and strauss has already done that in fact in his most recent test against SA and against the WI at old trafford.social said:
hes actually had 8 tests in india, 2 whole series and a one off test before the most recent one, at an overall average of 12. and while he cannot be blamed for his most recent opportunity, it must be said that he wasted another chance to prove himself in conditions where hes never proven himself before.social said:
yes he did, of course it doesnt change the fact that hes failed miserably for an extended period of time in another country.social said:
you dont become a great simply based on statistical data i can assure you, i personally dont remember any other great with such a poor record in another country after anywhere near as many tests.social said:
too bad for him, should have made the most of his last opportunity then.social said:
you must be referring to australia. we still produce a seaming wicket at least once every 3 tests, probably more often.social said:
look at the 2 most recent series, headingly offered plenty of seam movement against NZ, as did old trafford against the WI. trent bridge against NZ too had something in it for the pace bowlers. go back to a year ago, headingly vs SA was a seamers paradise, while trent bridge was almost impossible to bat on in that 2nd inning.social said:
Because maybe he went out and played his shots and basically had a bit of a slog - if you watched the innings you might say so - Lee plays that way.tooextracool said:
Yes, and if you had seen the pitch that it could have suited the seamers if England had bowled and fielded better. If Australia bowled first and a lot better then what England did, then England more then likely wouldn't have lasted very long.tooextracool said:
lee is hit and miss, hit and miss doesnt work on a wicket that assists the seamers.Craig said:
england wouldnt have lasted long because several of their players were injured, and most of the others were rather poor anyways, not to mention of course that the australian bowlers bar lee were more than capable of getting wickets on flat wickets.Craig said:
