that means that for over 33% of his careers he has been a crap batsman, although if you split the bad spell down, in the games he has got over 50, he was a world class batsman, but really in hindsight, he should have been dropped for the games he was out for ducks....blah blah blah
Not necessarily the point. How can somone who should never have been near the ODI side be one of the key components of an England side that actually performed reasonably in ODI cricket?
Hmm, it's in the nature of players who play like he does in ODIS to go through such slumps. The SA equivalent, Gibbs, is also in one of his own.
Because sometimes players make rapid improvements in short spaces of time. I presume you remember Harmison of 2002/03? Are you seriously telling me he was anything other than a joke of a ODI bowler at that time? Or that it wasn't very obvious that that was what was going to happen before he even played?
Nonsense.that means that for over 33% of his careers he has been a crap batsman, although if you split the bad spell down, in the games he has got over 50, he was a world class batsman, but really in hindsight, he should have been dropped for the games he was out for ducks....blah blah blah
I noticed that a decent while ago TBH, it's just starting to become a bit worrying. I suppose something of a plateuing-off after such a sensational start was pretty inevitable, no-one has ever averaged 60 in ODIs over that long a time except Michael Bevan. But he needs to start making a few big runs again sometime fairly soon else we'll have to be questioning whether the bubble's burst.
Gibbs has had several before now, too. Truth is for mine that Gibbs in ODIs has always been a bit of a Sanath Jayasuriya - something of a weak-attack bully. I've never rated him in the top echleon of modern ODI batsmen, the way I think Pietersen very much has the potential to be.
To say what a great bowler someone is you need reasons to be saying it - most people do not simply make random statements for the sake of it. I'd guess the Australian dressing-room at large had reached a consensus following those ODIs that Harmison was difficult to face (as indeed he did seem to be in most of those ODIs) and McGrath was speaking about that.
Well that's not what I mean, I assure you. That's a truncated sentence and quoted in part sounds wholly different to how it sounds with the rest of the sentence included.
They originally showed it in 4 parts in the Saturday lunch breaks during the tests, caught the first one more or less by accident & made a point of watching after that. Was very nicely researched & put together I thought. Admired the candour of Bacher & (particularly) the former SA press officer with regards to Cronje. Would have been very easy to tow the "he made a mistake" line, but their still palpable sense of betrayal spoke volumes for the magnitude of Hansie's crimes.
Hmm, when Gibbs was at his peak he could score runs very quickly against any attack in the world. I'm not going to check them but i think his stats may flatter him a bit due to that effect- but he has made some huge scores against excellent attacks, in fact he has an ODI century against every test-playing nation.
I seem to remember him being in (relatively) poor form leading up to the World Cup too, but I'm not entirely sure. Two excellent centuries in that tournament though, one of the highlights IMO.
Will respond fully to this later, but Kallis, Smith, Tendulkar, Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Dhoni, Sangakarra can all feel a bit hard done by, not to mention (potentially) a couple of others.
Its him or Tshabalala
That is a load of crap mate. Australai have no consistant odi players what about Graeme Smith he is a gun at odis. And De villiers as well. Not to mention the indians and sri Lankans you're a muppet mate
Who cares about what's happened focus on the future like Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel Mcgrath was over rated and when these 2 are in their peaks we will c that I think
Yeah mate Piertersen is overrated Smith exposed his weakness He will get carved in the odi series