Michael Clarke

[vic_orthdox]

Hayden his classy self recently. Certainly backing up the view he held as a CA director.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Just thinking middle order bats #3- #6 (excluding Miller who'd normally be in my 1st XI at #5)

1st XI

Bradman
G.Chappell
McCabe
Border

2nd XI

Ponting
Harvey
Trumper
S.Waugh

3rd XI

Macartney
Hill
Clarke
Hussey/Walters

I've probably missed someone obvious

Dean Jones. Big ones in India count a lot.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Excellent love Australian bravado. i will file that away and use it as justification for some unprovoked anti Australian posts I will make over the next 12 months. All in jest of course just like yours is.

No mine is a calculated and direct insult and not made in jest to even the slightest extent

 

[vic_orthdox]

Just thinking middle order bats #3- #6 (excluding Miller who'd normally be in my 1st XI at #5)

1st XI

Bradman
G.Chappell
McCabe
Border

2nd XI

Ponting
Harvey
Trumper
S.Waugh

3rd XI

Macartney
Hill
Clarke
Hussey/Walters

I've probably missed someone obvious

Wasn't Trumper an opener?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Wasn't Trumper an opener?

Played many of his great innings from number 3

 

[The Sean]

Wasn't Trumper an opener?

He was nominally an opener and batted there more often than anywhere else, but was actually statistically more successful in the middle-order

 

[morgieb]

Hayden his classy self recently. Certainly backing up the view he held as a CA director.

Matthew Hayden: Business Man, Public Speaker, Foodie, Sportsman

Relevant.

 

[honestbharani]

Wasn't Symonds supposed to be a particular crony of Clarke before Clarke dropped him for showing up drunk for a game? Might explain why Symonds and his best mate Hayden are taking these shots at Clarke.

 

[GIMH]

Wasn't Symonds supposed to be a particular crony of Clarke before Clarke dropped him for showing up drunk for a game? Might explain why Symonds and his best mate Hayden are taking these shots at Clarke.

Clarke wasn't captain then. He was 'part of the leadership group' iirc but you can hardly attribute the decision to drop Symonds solely to Clarke

 

[Spark]

I think Symonds did as Clarke was stand-in ODI captain at the time, but IIRC they had issues before that. It's in Brettig's book.

 

[GIMH]

I think Symonds did as Clarke was stand-in ODI captain at the time, but IIRC they had issues before that. It's in Brettig's book.

Fair enough, stand corrected.

 

[Hurricane]

No mine is a calculated and direct insult and not made in jest to even the slightest extent

Noted. For now your post has pleased me knowing that you are an Aussie as it reinforces my theories of what it must be like to live in Australia.

 

[Spark]

Noted. For now your post has pleased me knowing that you are an Aussie as it reinforces my theories of what it must be like to live in Australia.

because this isn't prejudiced at all

 

[Furball]

I can't believe the Clarke I saw in the aftermath of Hughes being taken is the same Clarke that's getting pilloried for lacking leadership skills.

 

[Red]

Wasn't Trumper an opener?

Batted throughout the order dependant on pitch conditions I think.

Spent as many innings in the middle order as he did opening, and was more successful not opening than he was opening.

 

[Hurricane]

because this isn't prejudiced at all

My apologies. I like to push the envelope with trans tasman shots but not be OTT. I actually logged back in to delete my post.

 

[Spikey]

It would have been a strange end if Clarke wasn't attacked from every direction for being a self absorbed pretty boy

 

[Tangles]

These comments on Twitter or in articles?

 

[Jono]

I can't believe the Clarke I saw in the aftermath of Hughes being taken is the same Clarke that's getting pilloried for lacking leadership skills.

some people in this country suck

 

[honestbharani]

Clarke wasn't captain then. He was 'part of the leadership group' iirc but you can hardly attribute the decision to drop Symonds solely to Clarke

yeah, but as Spark said he was stand-in captain. Either way, I have the least respect for someone like Symonds and the fact that he is holding on to these grudges even now shows that I am not wrong, I feel... Even if Clarke did do bad things, you would assume that people will at least remember the good stuff he has done when he has just announced his retirement. Heck, even Holding had said nicer things about Lara when he retired and we all know how much Holding seems to loathe Lara as a person.