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[pup11]

Perhaps Beau Casson may have done marginally better, but if you pick a guy who isn't in the countries top 25 bowlers as your number 8 and I guess 4th bowler you are in trouble.
Does anyone know why Cam White isn't at First Slip?

Actually EDIT - When we decide to have slip fielders..

Beau Casson might not have bowled as tightly or accurately as White has, but he would have been a much more attacking option as a bowler who could have picked a few wickets in spin friendly conditions.

 

[Top_Cat]

The lead's almost at 400 already. What surely not a lunch-time declaration in the offing?

 

[social]

Not sure if you're trying to disagree with my post or just add to it, but I agree with that. Ponting's treating him like a part-timer and, as I said, if that's going to happen, he shouldn't play.

If you have a look at even Paul Harris - he's often just carried through the first innings by South Africa as Kallis bowls most of his overs, but if the opposition rack up a big first innings score he gets through some really long spells to help keep the pacemen fresh and he bowls more overs than anyone in their second innings. Harris is more consistent and much more experienced than White but I don't think he has anything in his armory that makes him more threatening. He justifies his place in the team with his workload and the faith shown in him to spin South Africa home (even though he's failed to do so recently).

White's done a good job for what he's been asked but if Ponting is going to treat him like a part-timer (even in the second innings on the subcontinent!) and he isn't going to score any runs I see no reason to pick him. It's harsh but the role he's playing is a luxury no team can afford.

I suppose I was adding to it

He has supposedly been picked as a bowling all-rounder but he is not being used that way

Rather than dropping him, someone needs to get into Ponting's head and convince him that White's development is actually vital to Australia's short term future and the only way that he can improve is via bowling. Furthermore, it's not as if giving White an extended spell with proper field placings is going to damage Australia's cause in this match

BTW, I think your comparison with Harris is a good one - White has the potential to perform a similar holding role and to take a couple of wickets here and there

However, whether he has that potential can only be determined if he bowls enough

 

[biased indian]

think we should atleast need 140 overs on this pitch

 

[biased indian]

just saw this on crcinfo...didnt lee come on to the field ????

 

[Top_Cat]

Also just on Criinfo;

saw Lee warming up near the boundary

 

[pasag]

Haha, Rauf.

Johnson's really been impressive. He's been so far and away our best bowler in this series it's not funny.

 

[honestbharani]

Referals, dammit.......

 

[Ikki]

We're getting Pwned. I almost forgot what this felt like.

 

[Top_Cat]

Ya for Siddle!

 

[pasag]

Hmm, justice for Sehwag. Best case scenario is Dravid slows things down, but it doesn't really matter, India will declare before tea and we'll have our work cut out for us.

Edit: Dhoni in, very nice move.

 

[sirdj]

I'd put my money on Sehwag butchering the bowling after/if he gets to a hundred

I think I jinxed him.

 

[Sanz]

Cricinfo :- "I am told that after Sehwag got away with that thick edge, Ponting walked up to him and suggested that he shoud have walked"

Don't know if that is true but If Ponting indeed said that then I must say - Sehwag should have said STFU.

And he is gone.

 

[pasag]

Cricinfo :- "I am told that after Sehwag got away with that thick edge, Ponting walked up to him and suggested that he shoud have walked"

Don't know if that is true but If Ponting indeed said that then I must say - Sehwag should have said STFU.

And he is gone.

Maybe the sledge worked?

 

[sirdj]

Woo hoo...............Dhoni promoting himself..........so they are going all out and declaring by lunch

 

[pasag]

Our fielding has been atrocious.

 

[Sanz]

Maybe the sledge worked?

Haha and I dont have a problem with that.

 

[biased indian]

And from cricinfo

Very good innings by Sehwag, too bad no ton in his 30th boundary

 

[NUFAN]

So funny most of my computer crashed, but i was still able to chat on msn so I said to Prince - Sehwag will get out shortly, and he did!

 

[Sanz]

Woo hoo...............Dhoni promoting himself..........so they are going all out and declaring by lunch

Not Happening. I think the Declaration is going to come few overs before Tea.