Yeah it's weird IMO to say Faf/S.Smith is definitive but G.Smith/Warner isn't.Big fan of Faf, but can you 100% categorically say he's ahead of Smith? Smith's played some damn good knocks in the last 12 months too. Close call imo.
Warner is the closest opener to Sehwag and those sort of players are worth having a gamble over imo.I'd pretty comfortably take Smith over Warner for next series and beyond.
Probability of it though? Warner is a specialist bat not a lower order bat like MJ who used to make the odd 50 some time ago. And Smith does struggle against left arm pace bowlers and I would back Warner to have the better series. Sure he will get owned by Philander/Steyn in the first innings but I would back him to get a second innings 100 when the conditions are less helpful to the fast bowlers.Slightly facetious point but Mitchell Johnson might have the ability to play a more devastating innings but I wouldn't take him over Smith. I just wouldn't take Warner over Smith under any circumstance to be honest.
Nah AB is a better keeper and fielder.Clarke is just so much better than AB in every way.
Probably a better seamer as well, although I do have an ABC Cricket Book from around the time Clarke was first entering the NSW setup that has his bowling style down as "Left arm medium-fast / slow left arm orthodox" which I've found intriguing since the first time I ever saw it.Nah AB is a better keeper and fielder.
Yeah indeed. Not sure how long exactly he tried to do that but the ABC seemed to think he was still a fast bowler when he made the NSW squad which intrigued me. Not sure if they just had outdated info or if he really was still tinkering with it that late in his junior development.Didn't Clarke try to become a quick bowler when he was really young, which is what triggered his back problems in the first place?
I know Brettig has said it, but he's probably also said faulkner is goodDidn't Clarke try to become a quick bowler when he was really young, which is what triggered his back problems in the first place?