8th thread - who should make way for KP?

[Adders]

Well if we are using stats as the sole guide Australia has Clarke, Warner, Hughes, Cowan, Watson, Wade, Haddin and Starc averaging higher than two of England's current top 6.

So yeah rubbish attempt from adders and I would drop Bairstow.

Do I need to point out the flaw in that argument???

One of our current top six wont be playing in the Ashes and Hughes, Watson and Haddin's averages are largely built on bygone eras when they were good.

So yeah, rubbish attempt at dodging the reality.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Do I need to point out the flaw in that argument???

One of our current top six wont be playing in the Ashes and Hughes, Watson and Haddin's averages are largely built on bygone eras when they were good.

So yeah, rubbish attempt at dodging the reality.

Hughes was good once was he?

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Hughes was good once was he?

Beat the **** out of Steyn and Morkel in South Africa on debut, was hailed as next Messiah, has since had every possible technical flaw exposed - can't play spin, can't play swing, can't play in the corridor etc. He'll hit his prime and mature but probably won't get out of the mid-40s ala Martyn.

Think he'll have a much more fruitful ODI/Twenty20 career IMO. Has looked very assured there.

 

[Adders]

Hughes was good once was he?

Well by once I mean his first 3 tests, after which he averaged nearly 70.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Well by once I mean his first 3 tests, after which he averaged nearly 70.

Ha, thought you'd been implying he never was good.

But yeah, that was the day we thought the callow bogan of the west had come good.

 

[social]

Whilst I don't particularly rate him, I'd stick with Compton for the time being as:

a. He has the potential to hang around for long periods and that is not something that the Australian bowlers typically enjoy;

b. Root is doing well down the order and there is no guarantee that he would be successful down the order; and

c. Bairstow doesn't look all that much to me

 

[Spikey]

what number thread was my watson one? pews edit the title to reflect the number

 

[uvelocity]

tossing up making a last thread but short of content atm

 

[Prince EWS]

what number thread was my watson one? pews edit the title to reflect the number

Done ftr. Not sure why Corrin thought this thread was the eighth when it was the twelfth.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Done ftr. Not sure why Corrin thought this thread was the eighth when it was the twelfth.

8th to involve England and he ignores the ones solely for Aussies?

 

[Prince EWS]

8th to involve England and he ignores the ones solely for Aussies?

I think he might've counted forward from Jono's "first thread" which was the first when he posted it but pushed back afterwards when other threads were moved in here.

 

[GIMH]

Picked a number at random tbh. Coincidentally nearly did choose 12th though.

 

[Spikey]

to be clear, road to the ashes is counted as a prequel right

 

[BoyBrumby]

b. Root is doing well down the order and there is no guarantee that he would be successful down the order

Eh?

Assume you mean up the order.

 

[social]

Eh?

Assume you mean up the order.

Yeah sorry

Anyway, I don't see the need to rush him UP.

Let others do the hard yards whilst he develops