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BARNES OUT
Everytime I see this thread all I can think is: "When I was 17 I drank some very good beer." etc
Haha, I thought of this song when I saw it the first few times. Wasn't happy either because it often gets stuck in my head when I hear it and I don't particularly like it at all.Everytime I see this thread all I can think is: "When I was 17 I drank some very good beer." etc
Marsh's average went down lots post-WSC - it was a damn good mid-30s in his heyday.Richard, I dont think that you realise that Rod Marsh, who was picked as a keeper batsman, averaged 26!!!!!!
Wally Grout, Don Tallon and Brian Taber all averaged mid-teens!
So for Healy to average 22 in his second season, it was actually seen as being pretty damned good
Anyway, you need to look at selections and performances in the context of the time - Oz was comfortably the worst team in the world for a period so they were trying anyone at anytime in the hope that someone or something would succeed
Waugh was the equivalent of Michael Clarke with only Allan Border in supportEither way, I'm actually not saying anything that much about Healy, apart from the fact that he (like Stephen Waugh, like Hughes, like McDermott, like Reid, like Boon) were players who were mediocre for a time - sometimes a long time - but turned the corner and ended-up huge players in Australia's revival as a good Test team then their assault on and reaching of the summit. And that it'd not be all that surprising if each of these took someone (maybe many) by surprise somewhere.
I imagine Kambli's case dumbfounded more people than not who watched it unfold. Not everyone would neccessarily have thought he was destined to be one of the best batsmen in history, but most I imagine were thinking, after the opening couple of series', that his Test career would last longer than 2 years.Vinod Kambli - When he burst into the scene with two 200s, I thought he would go and become the greatest leftie of all time. And better than Sachin Tendulkar.
Sometimes, just sometimes, I feel he got done in by selectors. An avg of 50+ that still stands to his name, makes me think like that. Although he did play in ODIs till 99-00. Just wonder, had we been a bit more patient on him considering his vast talent.I imagine Kambli's case dumbfounded more people than not who watched it unfold. Not everyone would neccessarily have thought he was destined to be one of the best batsmen in history, but most I imagine were thinking, after the opening couple of series', that his Test career would last longer than 2 years.
Fluked his way through the key moments of the competition to be honest.Also I predicted a good career for Joginder Sharma post his FC exploits in 2003, going by stats alone (Ikki, you there?), as an allrounder. Only when I saw him in action, realised he's no where near test class, maybe an option in ODIs. Though just when I started giving up on him, he got selected into 20-20 WC side and boy!
Haha, I thought of this song when I saw it the first few times. Wasn't happy either because it often gets stuck in my head when I hear it and I don't particularly like it at all.
The Scooter "remix" from 2001 is even worse from that POV. Damn thing.Haha, I thought of this song when I saw it the first few times. Wasn't happy either because it often gets stuck in my head when I hear it and I don't particularly like it at all.
Given England's gutter standards that summer I'd not have been surprised if no-one ever tried so much as a single Yorker to him all series.Enjoying reading this thread
It has jogged my memory; when Mark Taylor played his first Test against the WI was bowled by a yorker off a no-ball, and was very late on it. A few runs later he was bowled by another yorker and again he was very late on it. I wrote him off for the 1989 Ashes tour
I think he scored 800+ runs
At the start the press dubbed (one B or two?) them the worst Aust. team to ever tour England, half way through they changed it to the worst ever England teamGiven England's gutter standards that summer I'd not have been surprised if no-one ever tried so much as a single Yorker to him all series.
On that note I'd be surprised if anyone was honestly expecting Simon Jones to play any serious county cricket again in the early part of this year (ie, before the cricket season started). I certainly wasn't, and I know for certain that many others on here weren't.I said McGrath would not play another test when he hurt his ankle in about 2002 or 2003. Oops.