The fact that I disagree with it. You can have an opinion all you want, but if I don't agree with it, I'm within all my rights to argue it and give my reasons.Voltman said:
Yeah, that's fair enough then, actually. I apologise. Due to the gap in between the resumption of the discussion, I didn't recall the exact wording of the original statement.
Bowling isn't White's specialty either though. It's not 2003 anymore. Something a lot of people seem to be struggling with. That's why I lashed out - I'm sick of White being treated like he's a bowler when he clearly isn't. Voltman was clearly a misguided target for my outburst though so I apologise.
Although when you use phrases like "clearly isn't true", that implies I'm factually wrong.
I know he's rubbish now but I'm just refering to when he was supposedly a half decent bowler.He isn't a bowler now and I don't understand why Hussey gave him a bowl let alone 3 overs!!!.
the problem with that being that the Australian team clearly still think he has some ability with the ball because they keep bowling him... People are getting stuck into him because he seems to actually be a bowling option for Aus when he clearly shouldn't be.
And yet I hear commentators - and even see posts here - complaining that he hasn't been bowled enough.
Ross Taylor took a 5-fer in the A series...
I think missing your 3 best fieldsmen is at least equal to missing another key bowler. Considering McMillan wouldn't have been dropped if they were playing, as well as the potential runs they could've saved and the run out chances they could've taken.
Haha I'm not an Australian supporter really, but I was expecting them to defend that score without too much of a bother when Vincent and Styris holed out. Australia, who pride themselves on excellent fielding, were pretty ordinary bar Hussey and White. I know they're missing their 3 gun fielders, but still. Jaques, Watson and Tait were very ordinary.
Lara has nice a ODI avg !What about Brian Lara's leggies then? I'd class them worse than White's.
Never seen Lara bowl his leggies so can't comment.He surely can't be worse than White?
http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statistics/Players/PlayerOverview_ODI.asp?PlayerID=0979
He should be bowling more often
Probably should keep him in cotton wool tbh
Why not? Considering how injury prone he is it would make plenty of sense for him to sit out a dead rubber
Ok, I'll give you Mills. Totally forgot about him. And he's a more essential part of the New Zealand dynamic than Oram IMO, but many will disagree with me on that.Full strengthNo Mills (our best oneday bowler of the 18 months), Oram (our best allrounder) and arguably Franklin, Martin or Mason ahead of Tuffey.
At least get your facts right
Thought you were joking about the fact he had "cotton wool" in his original post, before editing it, tbh. Nevermind.
I for one disagree. I think Oram's just as important, if not more, than Kyle Mills to our ODI side, especially given the way he batted in 3 of his last 4 innings and bowled in his last game.
Ah, I didn't catch his original post
