Mr Mxyzptlk
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What? Symonds would moonwalk into the New Zealand side. Clearly you're watching a different team. Symonds has a fine domestic record. He would easily make New Zealand.
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Andrew Symonds as a Test cricketer?
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If the umpiring had been of a decent standard then Symonds would have made 52 and 30 respectively. Good contributions, but hardly convincing. Then when you factor in how much he looked like getting in, then I wouldn't exepect much from Symonds in the future, unless poor umpiring or catching intervenes.
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Not to mention Brad Hodge and David Hussey too, fairly good batsmen those two.
Prince EWS
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Errr.. no.
Prince EWS
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It's decent. It's not great, though, and when you consider the pitches he bats on, it doesn't really have a patch on Sinclair's or Fulton's.
As an all round package yes i would. Brilliant in the field, can bowl and is more than handy with the bat.
NZTailender
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Brad Hodge got a double century against arguably better bowling attack and he's not in the side.
Lunacy.
ozone
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No. Key word for me is arguably. And for me, what Symonds provides with the ball and in the field gives him the edge I feel.
Prince EWS
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They don't need that though. They need a specialist batsman and that's what Sinclair is. He's a better batsman than Symonds - his bowling doesn't really come into much given they have Oram, Vettori and Franklin who are better allrounders than he is.
Neil Pickup
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For the same reason that I spent three hours making a video of Grebes diving to Kasabian this afternoon, I've created the following list to question the ultimate validity of this statement:
Graeme Fowler
Roshan Mahanama
Graham Dowling
David Lloyd
Graeme Hick
Nasser Hussain
Tim Robinson
Andrew Hall
Ian Smith
Misbah-ul-Haq
Shahid Afridi
Mohammad Ashraful
Faoud Bacchus
Discuss.
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Prince EWS
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Haha. Hall, Afridi, Smith and Ashraful. Yeah, they'd walk into any team...
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ozone
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What? I might be being thick but what is this?
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Prince EWS
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Haha. Hall, Afridi, Smith and Ashraful. Yeah, they'd walk into any team...
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A list of players who have made 150 or more runs against India in an innings.
ozone
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Haha, yea, I was being thick. Much as I'd like to try to stand by my general point and argue that what I said originally would still be true, I don't think I can argue Andrew Hall into the Australia side.
Ok then, any batsman who can score 150 against England and India would walk into most international teams.
Neil Pickup
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Can't find any statistical anomalies to do you over here. Andrew Jones is the closest but only made 143 against England - and was actually quite good in the first place - Kamran Akmal made 154 against us and four centuries against the Indians - but none of those passed 119.
Prince EWS
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Nah, I've got one. Andrew Symonds. Disproves the theory himself imo.
