Cricketing clangers.

[trundler]

Oh yeah for sure. Had everything going for him to be a really good test bowler, except a pea sized brain.

Many careers and lives been ruined by Samiitis, Donate today.

 

[Kirkut]

No one has mentioned this, but did anyone expect Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad to have such long careers and so many wickets?

 

[the big bambino]

I thought broad was finished after the last ashes in Oz

 

[Burgey]

No one has mentioned this, but did anyone expect Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad to have such long careers and so many wickets?

Yeah. Called Anderson in 2006 and Broad in 2009 on here. Thought it was a given tbh.

 

[Shady Slim]

i stand with @cnerd123 in his take on pant still being a horrendous test batsman who can play brilliant innings when he fires, and both of his epic vigils over the last two tests don't do anything to disprove that.

there is a reason saha has become the preferred keeper in home tests (though long as pant's in a rich vein of form he could probably justify a place in there as a bat), and it's because until pant shows the sustained ability to do that with the bat, and to not be a useless keeper, he's going to carry the burden that "cnerd" correctly identified that was posted

 

[Burgey]

Yeah. Called Anderson in 2006 and Broad in 2009 on here. Thought it was a given tbh.

Also said England would win in 2010-11 iirc. And that Graeme Swann would be a top offie.

rated Murali’s fielding Very highly as well, ofc

 

[Flem274*]

i led the charge against failed test opener bj watling becoming nzs keeper and was convinced for years matt henry was tim southee mk 2 and wanted neil wagner to just get out of the way already.

similarly, i was spewing when tom blundell was asked to open in melbourne.

 

[Prince EWS]

I thought Shai Hope and Kusal Mendis would go on to establish themselves as genuine Test class batsman, but was unsold on Babar Azam


Safe to say that hasn't quite worked out...

Still think Hope might do it tbh.

 

[honestbharani]

Still think Hope might do it tbh.

Agree.

 

[Teja.]

i stand with @cnerd123 in his take on pant still being a horrendous test batsman who can play brilliant innings when he fires, and both of his epic vigils over the last two tests don't do anything to disprove that.

Dude, he has played 6 tests in Australia and has a start in every single innings he played with his lowest score being 23 and an average of 60+. Looking at Pant play gives off the impression that he is an inconsistent, hit-or-miss player but the the reality is that he is the type of player who'll give you 20-40 nearly every innings with the occasional world class knock.

 

[Senile Sentry]

And who managed to intimidate Aussies so much that despite India needing 160 odd in 33 overs or so, and with one established batsman left, he had a long on and long off and zero close in fielders from ball one.

 

[Bijed]

Still think Hope might do it tbh.

Mendis quite possibly could too imo, he's still fairly young I think? Feel like he's done a fair bit more in his career so far then Hope too

 

[Burgey]

i led the charge against failed test opener bj watling becoming nzs keeper and was convinced for years matt henry was tim southee mk 2 and wanted neil wagner to just get out of the way already.

similarly, i was spewing when tom blundell was asked to open in melbourne.

Good to see you owning these things mate. It must be difficult when you get these sort of things wrong. Chin up. You'll be right.

 

[Beamer]

Mendis quite possibly could too imo, he's still fairly young I think? Feel like he's done a fair bit more in his career so far then Hope too

Hope is an excellent ODI batsman tbf to him, far superior to Mendis. But agree with you in tests, Mendis has achieved far more. Basically Shai had one ATG test and that is it.

 

[Gob]

When I first saw Ravi Jadeja, I thought he'd go on to become a very good cricketer

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Still think Hope might do it tbh.

Found it tricky to reply to that while trying to avoid any cheap puns, but I would genuinely like you to be right on that one

 

[Prince EWS]

Found it tricky to reply to that while trying to avoid any cheap puns, but I would genuinely like you to be right on that one

I'd like the West Indies to ditch their insistence that he bat top 3 when he plays - he's done a lot better at 4 and 5 - but that's probably unlikely given that's where positions keep opening up, and he does a good job there in ODIs.

 

[Shady Slim]

Dude, he has played 6 tests in Australia and has a start in every single innings he played with his lowest score being 23 and an average of 60+. Looking at Pant play gives off the impression that he is an inconsistent, hit-or-miss player but the the reality is that he is the type of player who'll give you 20-40 nearly every innings with the occasional world class knock.

aside from that absolute hack of an innings in melbourne i totally agree he's been amazing here

but imo until the guy shows he can do it in a range of conditions consistently (which he could well do!) i'm hesitant to christen him, but by all means if he does show consistency in the ability to be a gamebreaker in all conditions cnerd and i will pay the piper here

 

[Dan]

i led the charge against failed test opener bj watling becoming nzs keeper and was convinced for years matt henry was tim southee mk 2 and wanted neil wagner to just get out of the way already.

similarly, i was spewing when tom blundell was asked to open in melbourne.

How is your favourite #BetterThanWatling keeper Tim Weston going these days, anyway?

 

[Prince EWS]

How is your favourite #BetterThanWatling keeper Tim Weston going these days, anyway?

Haha I don't think he ever made that argument. Weston had already kind of given up keeping when Watling was being pushed forward (mainly because CD had KvW).