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A pathetic and gut-wrenching batting effort from the Australian cricket team in the fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge let down all their fans…
Once upon a time, Shane Watson was considered Australia's premier all-rounder, a myth that is strongly denied by his own career statistics today. A…
Australian selectors the other day announced the 15-man World Cup squad to be captained by Michael Clarke, with George Bailey as his deputy. Although…
Smith and Warner are proven performers, they were the reasons behind Australia’s last successful world cup campaign. While it remains to be seen whether they return back the same players they were, I am not entirely convinced Australia has dramatically improved to ignore the players of their calibre. What changed between Australia’s poor performance in the past and this series is the selection. This series shows that Australia should select proper batsman for top and middle order (Khawaja, Handscomb) and proper bowlers like Cummins, Richardson, Lyon, Zampa instead of bits and pieces players like Short, Lynn, MMarsh etc. This series is as much a reflection of India’s poor performance as it is for Australia’s dominance. Having proper batsmen pays dividends and Australia should welcome Smith and Warner into the team if they can prove their fitness and form through IPL. In my opinion, Handscomb should keep, opening the space for Smith, and if Finch continues his poor run of form, then Warner should take his spot and give the captaincy to Glenn Maxwell.
Australia can win the World Cup without Smith and Warner
How does winning 43 of 104 matches give 58.42% win rate?
Rubbish article. I see this type of misleading stats in every one of your articles and somehow you’re an expert?
Australia can create history at Eden Park tonight
I am sorry to say this but you are writing useless articles just for attention. Yesterday you said Khawaja was out of form and under pressure when in fact he has been churning runs throughout JLT Cup and the current Shield round on a difficult surface.
Do not judge players based on one inning. Wait until at least the completion of first round before writing articles like this.
Smith failed to score a double digit yesterday. I am surprised you didn’t mention anything about that.
I am all for Wade sacking but at least give the bloke couple of chances before writing him off.
Wade loses ground in Australian keeping battle, Maxwell fails and Bird strikes
What was the original comment by Lord David?
BREAKING: Merv Hughes to join Indian coaching staff in bizarre new role
Warner (due for runs and some cricket brains)
Renshaw
Khawaja
Smith
Handscomb
Maxwell
Wade
Pattinson
Starc
Cummins
Hazlewood/Lyon
Tell us: Who makes your way-too-early Australian Ashes side
This is my XI, slightly low on bowling but a great batting line up
Watson
Finch/Khawaja (Finch selected based on last performance)
Warner
Smith
Maxwell
M Marsh
Faulkner
Neville
NCN
Hastings/Hazlewood
Zampa
Australia's first-choice T20 side still unclear
My playing XI
Warner
Khawaja
Smith
Watson
Maxwell
M Marsh
Faulkner
Neville
Hasting
Coulter Nile
Zampa
Finch 12th man.
Nevill the shock inclusion as Australia announce World T20 squad
He would have been dropped anyway. Nice try though.
What Michael Clarke did to help Steven Smith
My XI
Warner
Bancroft
Khawaja
Smith
Burns
Neville
Faulkner
Pattinson
Starc
Hazlehood
Lyon
Selectors XI
Warner
Shaun Marsh
Khawaja
Smith
Voges
M Marsh
Neville
Johnson
Starc
Hazlewood
Lyon
Who's in your Australian Test team?
Come on David, this article looks out of touch. Maxwell’s bowling figure is incorrect and not sure what you meant by “And it’s about time Shane Watson and Glenn Maxwell got some runs”. I agree about the Watson part but why Maxwell? Maxwell has done incredibly well both with bat and ball over for a long time now. I recall that just a few ODI matches back, Maxwell made an important century sealing Australia the world cup semi-final berth. Please get your facts right.
Matt Wade's man of the match award enough to win the first ODI
I am not denying that they bowled well. I am just pointing the fact that Australia’s pathetic response made them look much better than how good they really are. Their away figures does show mediocrity and for me that’s not world class. World class is when the bowler is equally (or close to) effective everywhere they play. You can understand it in anyway you want. World class players are those who can do well in all sort of conditions, not only the ones that favour their bowling style.
Homo sapiens learn from their mistakes, Australia's cricketers didn’t
Well I think your recount of wickets between Anderson and Broad is extremely misguided. Anderson and Broad can only perform in conditions that favour to them. Now that is not world class. Just two innings back, we all saw how Anderson struggled to even buy a wicket in his home conditions. The statistics below might help you to judge if they are world class or not.
Stuart Broad in his 31 away tests have taken 88 wickets in 52 innings at 36.65, SR 71. How is that world class? There are twenty possible wickets to be taken in a test match, if four front line bowlers take 16 wickets and the other 4 by part-timers, this accounts to 2 wickets in an innings for a front line bowler. Going by Broad’s record, he has scored less than 1.7 wicket per innings.
How is that world class? This is what we call mediocrity if you didn’t know what it meant. A world class bowler is someone who scores better than the average. Yes, he bowled well at Trent Bridge, there is no denying that but he wouldn’t have taken those wickets had Australians not thrown their wickets away.
Similarly, James Anderson in his 41 away tests have taken 138 wickets in 75 innings at 34.45, SR 65. Now this accounts to 1.84 wickets per innings. This statistics also show that he is an average player away from his home. It does not justify that Anderson is world class.
So your argument of 700 wickets between them is flawed. It’s not the quantity per se, but the quality at which those wickets were taken. Apart from their home conditions, they are average at best and that by no means imply world class.
However, I am not denying that they didn’t bowl well. They bowled extremely well but Australia’s pathetic batting made it look better than what it really is.
Homo sapiens learn from their mistakes, Australia's cricketers didn’t
Yep, trying to execute instant heroics is costing Warner and the team, someone just need to tell him that he is not Maxwell-like player.
Another Australia collapse highlights value of Rogers
I see the future of Australian Cricket here
Warner (vc)
Burns
Smith (C)
Silk
Fergusion
M Marsh/Faulkner
Neville (wk)
Starc
Hazlehood
Pattinson/Cummins
Lyon
False sense of security: We're not as good at cricket as we think
Nah mate. Hazlewood is ahead of Starc at this stage. He will be first picked after Johnson.
An embarrasment of riches: Australia’s selection dilemma
Perfect reply mate, that’s the essence of the article!
Shane Watson, an epitome of failures endorsed to fail further
Why did you completely fail to mention Clarke?
Fawad Ahmed should debut against Windies next week
I wont be wrong if I say you are dreaming.
I've bet on South Africa so they'll win for sure
Yes he once was but have you seen his recent form? I have not seen a single convincing innings from Bailey since long time.
Can you pick a better World Cup squad?
If you replace Clarke with Voges then who will be the Captain- George Bailey? The only reason Bailey is on the squad is because they want someone to lead the first match when Clarke is unavailable. Yes you can argue Behrendorff’s form but do you reckon the opponents in BBL and ODI world cup squad are directly comparable? I think not. It would be a gamble to put a rookie without international experience in the world cup squad. Furthermore, Starc, Cummins and Hazlewood have also shown they are as capable (if not better) than Behrendorff at the BBL plus they have played ODI before.
Can you pick a better World Cup squad?
My world cup squad looks like this
Finch (C)/Warner
Khawaja
Smith
Handscomb (wk)
Maxwell (C)
Stoinis
Finch/Carey (wk) – Finch before Maxwell if he plays instead of Carey
Starc
Cummins
J Richardson
Zampa
Extras
Lyon
Carey/Finch/Warner
Hazlewood
Head
Australia can win the World Cup without Smith and Warner