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***Official*** Australia in South Africa 2013/14

FaaipDeOiad

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benchmark00 said:
Warner needs to start converting these hundreds into big ones though. What separates good batsmen from world class ones.
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Somewhat unrelated but he needs to make some first innings runs too. Think he could be seriously good but there's a bit too much downhill skiing and the sense he could throw it away any second early in the innings right now.

Been exactly what was needed today though so can't complain.
 
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Jack Murray: "With that six from Doolan, Don Bradman slips to second place on the list of test match batting averages for Australia."
 
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schearzie said:
Dools really hitting at quite a pace now
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He really is quite lovely to watch in full flow. That's why I'm so impressed with his work today. I wrote a blog post last year some time about how Ausalian batsmen have the talent, but need to learn to have more prudent shot selection, putting away the shots they know have high risk, even though they can play it, I.e. Steve Waugh and the hook/pull.

Dools has done exactly that this innings, absolutely pumped for him.
 
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benchmark00 said:
He really is quite lovely to watch in full flow. That's why I'm so impressed with his work today. I wrote a blog post last year some time about how Ausalian batsmen have the talent, but need to learn to have more prudent shot selection, putting away the shots they know have high risk, even though they can play it, I.e. Steve Waugh and the hook/pull.

Dools has done exactly that this innings, absolutely pumped for him.
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You don’t need to have all the shots. If you do have all the shots, you shouldn’t play them all. Australia are breeding a culture of entertainment first, results second. It’s all well and good Darren Lehmann coming out and saying he wants his chargers to play their natural game and go out and take the game to the opposition, but he needs to look at what he’s working with. He doesn’t have a team with the ability he had. He doesn’t have a team that have made mountains of runs against all comers. He needs to start installing a culture of playing within yourself, and once you’ve established yourself, don’t let those standards slip.

Steve Waugh had a liking for the pull shot in early days. Played the shot pretty well too. But once he got out to the shot two times, and two times only, he put it in the rack, never to be seen again. That is the kind of mental toughness this line up can only dream of. Can you see Usman Khawaja putting away his full blooded cover drive away from the body until he’s got 30 runs on the board? It’s unlikely. It’s time the coach told Usman that he may have every shot in the book, but you succeed in this game by not now many shots you play, but often how many you don’t play.
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Steve Smith another good example of keeping things relatively simple. Has all the shots, but leaves the ball well, plays late etc in test cricket and applies himself and you can see the results. Hussey did that too, and he had every shot in the book as well as you can see in his ODI/T20 record.

Unless you have an absolutely ridiculous amount of natural talent like say Ponting, it's pretty necessary at test level vs good opposition.
 
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FaaipDeOiad said:
Steve Smith another good example of keeping things relatively simple. Has all the shots, but leaves the ball well, plays late etc in test cricket and applies himself and you can see the results.
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Yes, hence my constant comparisons between Smith and Steve Waugh. Top temperament, worked hard on his game. Clarke had to do the same.
 
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Odd that we might have four Australian hundreds in this match and Clarke has none of them. That can't have happened since... 2009?
 
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