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***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
Jono said:
That's brutal man. Fair enough advocating someone to play over someone else due to fc stats. But to passionately not want someone to play and be pissed off, like you were with rahane/dhawan, when you haven't seen them is rough.
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What?

First, I said first up, and repeatedly, that I haven't seen Dhawan bat (actually I did see him once, but not for long), or followed him cloesly, so what I have to say has to be taken with a grain of salt. I wasn't pretending at some knowledge that I didn't have.

silentstriker said:
I don't know Dhawan's recent form, but Rahane averages in the sixties in first class cricket while Dhawan averages 45. Unless he's been scoring centuries every game in the past year (if he is, then fair enough and I don't have a problem with that), I don't see how you can take him over Rahane. As run scorers over the course of their careers- they aren't even close.
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silentstriker said:
Yea, I was worried about that. I haven't seen Dhawan bat much at all but Rahane surely has earned the chance more?
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Secondly, I asked, multiple times, of people who may have followed him more closely if his recent form merited a selection over someone who was 20 points higher. It's not merely going by someone who averages 48 vs. 45 in FC cricket. It's about someone averaging 45, being compared to someone averaging over 60....that's not a statistical quirk and you need some really powerful form to make up the difference in the class that the averages imply.

Secondly, I have always been more than happy to admit when I'm wrong. The selectors clearly made a good decision in picking him.

silentstriker said:
Nice....I thought Rahane should have gotten it but clearly they made a good choice.
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So yea, I was wrong. It's been known to happen before, and I'm sure it's going to happen again :p.
 
GotSpin

GotSpin

Hall of Fame Member
**** me. What a day....But did I actually just read some posts clamoring for a Johnson inclusion?

May God have mercy on us all

 
BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Just watching highlights of Dhawan's knock as the NZ weather has let us down.

One aspect that I haven't seen anyone comment on is by how much he's outscored Vijay. There cannot be too many occasions where one opener has opened a "lead" of over 100 on his partner when both are still in, can there? Is it unprecedented?
 
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Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
BoyBrumby said:
Just watching highlights of Dhawan's knock as the NZ weather has let us down.

One aspect that I haven't seen anyone comment on is by how much he's outscored Vijay. There cannot be too many occasions where one opener has opened a "lead" of over 100 on his partner when both are still in, can there? Is it unprecedented?
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Warner against India at Perth maybe? Can't really remember what Cowan did that innings.
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
I'm pretty sure Warner scored the vast majority of Australia's first 100 runs that innings.

edit: Cowan hit a 4 on the last ball of the 14th over to bring up the 100. Of Australia's 103 runs, he'd scored 28, Warner had 71.

Cowan had scored 38 when Warner tonned up.
 
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TT Boy

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Good wicket that and makes the probability of an Indian less likely. These two won't open this morning.
 
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