Nah Hauritz is just a slogger and not a very good number 8 batsman, apparently.Hauritz was always rated highly for his batting as a junior. Made the Austalian U19 team as much for his batting ability as his off-spin talent.
Johnson has some form issues currently. He rarely bats well when he attempts to hit out from ball 1. Helps explain his average record with the bat in ODIs. He will come good again, an average of 20-25 is more reflective of his ability.
Much like today. However in such situations... well, I don't think you can include situations like today into account. Sure he could have taken his time and gotten 30, 40 like Hauritz, but instead he decided to try and hit it into outer space instead. Doesn't always work.Hauritz was always rated highly for his batting as a junior. Made the Austalian U19 team as much for his batting ability as his off-spin talent.
Johnson has some form issues currently. He rarely bats well when he attempts to hit out from ball 1. Helps explain his average record with the bat in ODIs. He will come good again, an average of 20-25 is more reflective of his ability.
I thought it had been realised by all and sundry that Warne was quite simply a freak. To expect any up and coming spinner to even be within the same order of magnitude as him in terms of talent and skill is quite foolish, so we should stop comparing Hauritz to Warne. Hauritz has a job to do in the team and shockers such as Sunday aside he's doing it well.Not a big fan of Hauritz with the ball. His contributions with the bat are rather secondary in that respect. Miss watching Warne tbh..
Ah, well in that case, Johnson ahead of Hauritz. Just a matter of getting a bit of form I reckon.Kinda missing the point there Himannv. I'm not interested in weighing them as bowlers, but rather, as batsmen, given they're both secure in the team atm, yet Johnson is coming in ahead of Hauritz despite the disparity in their recent records I pointed out.
As to whether we "need" more allrounders, so long as they're good enough to merit selection on their stronger discipline alone (ie. Watson with the bat, Johnson with the ball), then you can never have too many allrounders - their second discipline is a bonus and the better they are at it the bigger the bonus.
Indeed. Unlike Martin, McGrath had some technique. And he was willing to work on it.Utterly unfair to group McGrath along with that hack Martin.
Admittedly he's not the greatest of bats, but if you consider that he averaged 10 (4 times Martin) for the any test in the 21st century (2001 onwards), duly unfair to place him alongside Martin as the 2 worst bats of recent times.
Yeah, that's exactly what Athlai said in the AUS vs NZ thread.Nah Hauritz is just a slogger and not a very good number 8 batsman, apparently.
To be fair to Johnson a lot of the times he has come in recently (obviously not the first innings in this test) Australia have already got a big score and some quick runs are needed.Rather like Warney, Johnson seems to give the impression to the casual observer that he could be better if he gave more of a toss. Based on the little I've seen he looks to have the bigger array of shots to choose from, but seems determined to deploy them at the earliest op.