Cricket Season Thread

[stryker]

Btw Faulkner can, has and does wins games for Australia with the bat.

 

[happy_tiger]

Btw Faulkner can, has and does wins games for Australia with the bat.

But do you want to have Faulkner batting any higher than 6 ??

 

[stryker]

No he is a finisher.
His talents are required when the top order fail.
I believe either Shaun Marsh or Chris Lynn are in far better form than Maxxy and deserve his spot.

 

[swag_tiger]

Btw Faulkner can, has and does wins games for Australia with the bat.

But do you want to have Faulkner batting any higher than 6 ??

Faulkner is there is finish games that is why they call him the finisher.

 

[swag_tiger]

No he is a finisher.
His talents are required when the top order fail.
I believe either Shaun Marsh or Chris Lynn are in far better form than Maxxy and deserve his spot.

Shaun Marsh and Chris Lynn do not give their wickets away as often as Maxwell.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

We were deep with the ball yesterday on paper and only Hazlewood stood up, the Indians have a bit more to be worried about though.

I swear Maxwell's mental attitude is inversely proportional to his talent. Threw his wicket away again in splendid fashion.

Excellent run chase by Smith and Bails, turned strike over all day, never got overawed.

Warner making way for Khawaja due to paternity leave, I think he's due for a spell anyway, had a big summer.

 

[Marshall_magic]

I think the big weakness of the Aus team was shown today. The middle order runs deep, but if we fall into early trouble, we're done. Had Bailey been given out first ball, we are 3/20 odd, and need 290 to win. Smith can play the anchor, but the likes of Maxwell, Marsh, Wade and Faulkner are probably not going to save the game for us, they all have tendencies to throw away their wickets.

I would either bring Marsh in at 5, and drop one of the all rounders (or give them more bowling responsibilities and drop a bowler), or bring Paine in to open the batting for Finch, then put Marsh in at 5 with Wade also making way.

We had a call go our way today and were good enough to turn it into a win, but that could have been ugly.

Your right MM

We need another purely recognized batsmen at 5

I reckon Lehmann might be starting to get quite impatient with Maxwell and the soft dismissals

I think Maxwell brings something to the team, but at 5 you need someone who can save a game. Maxwell at 6 or 7 and throwing down 3-6 overs is definitely worth hanging on to.

 

[happy_tiger]

I think the big weakness of the Aus team was shown today. The middle order runs deep, but if we fall into early trouble, we're done. Had Bailey been given out first ball, we are 3/20 odd, and need 290 to win. Smith can play the anchor, but the likes of Maxwell, Marsh, Wade and Faulkner are probably not going to save the game for us, they all have tendencies to throw away their wickets.

I would either bring Marsh in at 5, and drop one of the all rounders (or give them more bowling responsibilities and drop a bowler), or bring Paine in to open the batting for Finch, then put Marsh in at 5 with Wade also making way.

We had a call go our way today and were good enough to turn it into a win, but that could have been ugly.

Your right MM

We need another purely recognized batsmen at 5

I reckon Lehmann might be starting to get quite impatient with Maxwell and the soft dismissals

I think Maxwell brings something to the team, but at 5 you need someone who can save a game. Maxwell at 6 or 7 and throwing down 3-6 overs is definitely worth hanging on to.

Even at 6 you need to be able to come in at say 4-50 and get the side in a reasonable position at the 40 over mark

I just don't see Maxwell doing that , too much impatient as far as I'm concerned

 

[Marshall_magic]

I think the big weakness of the Aus team was shown today. The middle order runs deep, but if we fall into early trouble, we're done. Had Bailey been given out first ball, we are 3/20 odd, and need 290 to win. Smith can play the anchor, but the likes of Maxwell, Marsh, Wade and Faulkner are probably not going to save the game for us, they all have tendencies to throw away their wickets.

I would either bring Marsh in at 5, and drop one of the all rounders (or give them more bowling responsibilities and drop a bowler), or bring Paine in to open the batting for Finch, then put Marsh in at 5 with Wade also making way.

We had a call go our way today and were good enough to turn it into a win, but that could have been ugly.

Your right MM

We need another purely recognized batsmen at 5

I reckon Lehmann might be starting to get quite impatient with Maxwell and the soft dismissals

I think Maxwell brings something to the team, but at 5 you need someone who can save a game. Maxwell at 6 or 7 and throwing down 3-6 overs is definitely worth hanging on to.

Even at 6 you need to be able to come in at say 4-50 and get the side in a reasonable position at the 40 over mark

I just don't see Maxwell doing that , too much impatient as far as I'm concerned

I think at 4/50 you can't blame the no 6 no matter how the game ends up, from there you're losing 90% of games regardless of who you have at 6\. I don't think there's a Mike Hussey going around today who can pull a game like that out.

I've always thought there is room in a one day team for the guy who can throw down some overs and hit a quick fire 40 late in the innings, but I just don't think it's batting as high up as he does. We got away with it at the World Cup because the top 4 performed well across the board and Maxwell was in career best form with the bat.

 

[tig_prmz]

faulkner can sometimes do at 8 what maxi might do at 5.
top 4/5 has to be players who have shown the ability to play long innings.
i still think we're looking for a no.4 (maybe shaun marsh). bailey is a middle order batsman who can adapt to either sloggin if top order succeeds or steadying the ship if they fail.

 

[happy_tiger]

Your right MM

We need another purely recognized batsmen at 5

I reckon Lehmann might be starting to get quite impatient with Maxwell and the soft dismissals

I think Maxwell brings something to the team, but at 5 you need someone who can save a game. Maxwell at 6 or 7 and throwing down 3-6 overs is definitely worth hanging on to.

Even at 6 you need to be able to come in at say 4-50 and get the side in a reasonable position at the 40 over mark

I just don't see Maxwell doing that , too much impatient as far as I'm concerned

I think at 4/50 you can't blame the no 6 no matter how the game ends up, from there you're losing 90% of games regardless of who you have at 6\. I don't think there's a Mike Hussey going around today who can pull a game like that out.

I've always thought there is room in a one day team for the guy who can throw down some overs and hit a quick fire 40 late in the innings, but I just don't think it's batting as high up as he does. We got away with it at the World Cup because the top 4 performed well across the board and Maxwell was in career best form with the bat.

True but you need to give yourself a chance to at least bat out the 50 overs and give your bowlers some total to bowl at

With Maxwell I'd think you'd get a quick 30 and when the going got tough he holes out with a unnecessary shot and 5-95

That's the problem

 

[happy_tiger]

Also read an article today that AB De Villiers might be retiring at the end of the current English tour

Would be a shame

And I see De Kock is still out Bogan , he is sorely missed I bet

 

[Tigerdon]

How good did Lynn go at the top of the order. He can really cart the pace bowlers , got out to a spinner.
Handy player to have though.

 

[Tigerdon]

For the T20 WC in India, we are going to need a couple of players that can really tonk the spinners.
Here's my top three Tonkers of Spin
1\. Smith
2\. Warner
3\. Bailey

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Also read an article today that AB De Villiers might be retiring at the end of the current English tour

Would be a shame

And I see De Kock is still out Bogan , he is sorely missed I bet

31 and looking at retiring already? His Afrikaans pop career must be going gangbusters.

Hopefully we see him in the Big Bash then.

Maxwell at 6 or 7 would be a disaster IMO. He is not a player you can place faith in to bring the game home as evidenced the other night. I would be leaving him where he is so that he is not brought too late into the game, primarily as he is no less likely to throw his wicket away. Faulkner is the man to bat there, the bloke has anti-freeze running through his veins.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

I think there's a bit of unrest in the SA camp atm, which could be the reason AB is thinking of giving it away so young. Amla just vacated the captaincy as well. On top of that, they're in a battle against the Poms. The Poms are an okay side, but SA should be far superior at home. Whatever problems they have in the dressing room, it's likely to see them relinquish their no 1 test status should the Aussies beat NZ in February.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Also read an article today that AB De Villiers might be retiring at the end of the current English tour

Would be a shame

And I see De Kock is still out Bogan , he is sorely missed I bet

Faulkner is the man to bat there, the bloke has anti-freeze running through his veins.

Sounds like he played for Essendon.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

I think there's a bit of unrest in the SA camp atm, which could be the reason AB is thinking of giving it away so young. Amla just vacated the captaincy as well. On top of that, they're in a battle against the Poms. The Poms are an okay side, but SA should be far superior at home. Whatever problems they have in the dressing room, it's likely to see them relinquish their no 1 test status should the Aussies beat NZ in February.

When you've got that many good players in one team there's bound to be a clash of the egos, we saw that ourselves with our own side under Waugh. When you're winning though it's easy to paper over the cracks.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Seems like the selectors are doing all they can to keep Uzi out of the ODI side… Darsh must still have those photos...

 

[Sabre]

Seems like the selectors are doing all they can to keep Uzi out of the ODI side… Darsh must still have those photos...

Don't understand the point of promoting Khawaja to the squad and then not picking him.
I do like the inclusion of Hastings and Richardson though. But I would have kept Hazlewood and dropped Boland.