superkingdave
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My middle order has been very settled for the last 6 or so years - Sam Yates(33, Test ave 67.5) bats at 3, Barry Leaburn (34, test ave 72.05) at 4, no.5 is Rob Garside (35, test ave 73.31), and Veteran Graeme Macleoud bats at 6 (age 37, Test ave 75.73).
However Macleoud is only averaging 35 in 10 tests this year, and he was poor in the tour to NZ not managing a 50. Yet last year he averaged over 100 in test and he has over 18000 test runs and 68 test centuries.
I'm on the tour of India and the two reserve batsmen i chose are T Lennon and Anthony Moon. I decided to give Moon the opportunity at six instead of Macleod for the warm up against Karnataka. After a good start i decided to promote him to 4 in the order. Then he goes and scores 416* - now i have to decide whether to dump Macleod in what is probably his last winter of cricket, or leave someone else out?
However Macleoud is only averaging 35 in 10 tests this year, and he was poor in the tour to NZ not managing a 50. Yet last year he averaged over 100 in test and he has over 18000 test runs and 68 test centuries.
I'm on the tour of India and the two reserve batsmen i chose are T Lennon and Anthony Moon. I decided to give Moon the opportunity at six instead of Macleod for the warm up against Karnataka. After a good start i decided to promote him to 4 in the order. Then he goes and scores 416* - now i have to decide whether to dump Macleod in what is probably his last winter of cricket, or leave someone else out?
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