DWTA really. Opening's where he's most effective in domestic one day cricket so that's where he should bat. Not everything revolves around the composition of the national team, and I'd argue that having the strongest competition possible (which is achieved by encouraging every team to play their best possible lineup and composition) will provide other players with a better test of their abilities anyway.
That's stupid. He should be opening the batting, he has been very effective doing it in the past and the Bulls shouldn't just be putting him down the order cause that's where he bats in a much higher standard of cricket.
Beat me to it.
Disagree with that sentiment.
WA did it with Marsh because it suited them, actually. They had a stack of middle order players and no openers. That's even more true now, in fact.
That's pretty bad news from the WA perspective, but really are they even giving these young blokes a fair go, they picked Mangan for this game and gave him only 12 overs to bowl in the whole game!!Tom moody said he will fill the gaps in the side with players from the eatsern states perth paper,that includes brad knowles who was a late signing for WA.
Moody said club and junior cricket has been scanned and their no depth in wa cricket
They are not bring in spinners. They are bring in batsmen and seamer, which is where they a light on. It would be worse for the likes of Mangan to play as specialist batsmen due to lack of batting options. That might make him forgot about his bowling and concentrate on batting like White, Smith and Mosies.
Yeah but if they play him at 6/7 due to the lack of batsmen. Any young cricketer would focus on batting, if they thought that was his shot in the starting XI.
Yeah its fair enough, but its really not unheard of players reinventing their role in their domestic sides according to what role they want to or are required to play in the international side, and most of the domestic sides too co-operate with their players in this regard.
I never said it never happened. I said I don't agree with it. There's a big difference.
I think its just not the case with spinners, what's wrong with giving a guy like Coetzee, Doropoulos, Heal or Simmons a chance, its not as if WA have anything else to fall back on, and btw was Edmondson injured, or is he dropped too...
I don't think any bloke in his right mind would would ignore his spin bowling to concentrate on his batting in Australia atm, given how thin the spin stocks are, one is likely to break into the the state side or even the national side even being a half-decent spinner, but its much harder to do so when you are just an average batsman.
Droppers injured and so is Edmondson I believe. You could give Heal, Simmons and Coetzee decent run and not be able to field a balanced XI. The issue for WA is more to do with balance then quality. There are some talent but there no in the right areas.
