Prediction

[FaaipDeOiad]

Hussey is unbelievably strong through the covers. It's interesting comparing Hussey with someone like Vaughan in that area. Vaughan is certainly the better player to watch playing the cover drive, and in fact Hussey plays it in quite an ugly, unorthodox way, but Hussey just puts everything away in that region so consistently and never seems to get himself out doing it. Even in the death overs of ODIs he cover drives for boundaries.

 

[Nate]

He murders `em. He has a slightly different approach at the crease, and holds his bat a little differently as well. You can see this with many balls taking the thick inside-edge of his bat. Works for him though.

 

[andyc]

do these comparisons actually prove anything? i could change those around and make it appear as though SA is the better bowling attack.

Yeah, but you wouldn't be right.

 

[tooextracool]

Yeah, but you wouldn't be right.

err yes which is why those sort of comparisons are useless.

 

[luckyeddie]

Yes especially when you consider that it took him nearly 5 years to resolve that weakness.....

Not the point

 

[tooextracool]

Not the point

if a player struggles with a weakness for 5 years the point is that he didnt do a very good job playing around that weakness.

 

[luckyeddie]

if a player struggles with a weakness for 5 years the point is that he didnt do a very good job playing around that weakness.

The original point I was making was citing Trescothick purely as an example of a player who had quite clearly taken a weakness and, irrespective of how long it took him, had eventually turned it into a strength - obviously to your chagrin.

 

[tooextracool]

The original point I was making was citing Trescothick purely as an example of a player who had quite clearly taken a weakness and, irrespective of how long it took him, had eventually turned it into a strength - obviously to your chagrin.

is it really his strength? no its not. infact several times during the summer he was dismissed in a similar manner to his flawed past. his strategy recently has been to leave everything that is in the corridor of uncertainity and cover his stumps, not a bad ploy, but not exactly a strength

 

[aussie]

A finished pollock is better than Hoggard in his prime?



do these comparisons actually prove anything? i could change those around and make it appear as though SA is the better bowling attack.

1. Well is was basing it on their overall careers.

2. But you won't be right, even if you could do that.

 

[aussie]

err yes which is why those sort of comparisons are useless.

i made the comparison in the 1st place to show that their is not much separting both England & S.Africa's 5-man attacks.