Waste of what, Craig? Bandwidth you used by posting a nonsense reply?Craig said:What a waste.
The purpose this thread serves is to draw attention to a young cricketer who will (in my humble opinion) take the cricketing world by the scruff of the neck in the next couple of years.Craig said:You mean the waste of bandwidth you used to create a thread that serves little purpose except shoff your banner.
so what you mean is Watson's FIGURES and AVERAGES look good (especially at First Class level,less so the one day)etc etc...Richard said:That's as maybe, but Craig is quite right to describe this as a pointless act.
Incidentally, Watson the batsman (especially at the First-Class level, less so at the one-day) looks to me like a very good player, not quite so sure about Watson the bowler.
Have you even seen this guy play?Richard said:That's as maybe, but Craig is quite right to describe this as a pointless act.
Incidentally, Watson the batsman (especially at the First-Class level, less so at the one-day) looks to me like a very good player, not quite so sure about Watson the bowler.
I've seen Watson bowl and believe me there's not much impressive about him.Swervy said:so what you mean is Watson's FIGURES and AVERAGES look good (especially at First Class level,less so the one day)etc etc...
There are a lot of judgements being made on players being based solely on statistics
A bold claim indeed.Mister Wright said:Have you even seen this guy play?
How can you make that assumption after just looking at his statistics. Fair enough you may have seen him play a few ODIs. But then he was either injured or just making his way into the team. He is very young and has a lot of cricket behind him. Now he is back in Qld he will receive the proper coaching he needs and will blossom into one of the most destructive players ever to play international cricket. Time will tell.
I am not disputing that he isn't talented and doesn't have a big future in the game but a better job could have been done in doing so..Zeke said:The purpose this thread serves is to draw attention to a young cricketer who will (in my humble opinion) take the cricketing world by the scruff of the neck in the next couple of years.
you say what now?Richard said:I've seen Watson bowl and believe me there's not much impressive about him.
However, he certainly has the consistency with the bat neccessary to suggest he's pretty good.
Nothing solely on stats, although I admit I've never seen him play First-Class-cricket, but my good friend Mr. Hoitink has and he has filled me in on plenty I have not seen.
so I would say you have seen him bowl in those VB series games of about 20 months ago...and thats it.Richard said:I've seen Watson bowl and believe me there's not much impressive about him.
However, he certainly has the consistency with the bat neccessary to suggest he's pretty good.
Nothing solely on stats, although I admit I've never seen him play First-Class-cricket, but my good friend Mr. Hoitink has and he has filled me in on plenty I have not seen.
He has had some recent back problems, the main reason for some of his poor bowling.Richard said:If you look you'll see I said "not so sure about Watson the bowler" - implying that I'm not at all sure about whether he is that good or not.
Not, at all, that I am implying I think he's rubbish.
Nonetheless, when I saw him he was rubbish so unless something has changed he still will be.
Is it wise to assume something will change, or to assume it won't?