Deep philosophical question: Is Aaron Finch actually good?

[AlanJLegend]

On one hand, against weak opposition on flat pitches he can be as destructive as anybody in the history of the game.

On the other hand, he has never done anything particularly note-worthy in the longer form when it has mattered.


I don't know what to feel

 

[Red]

Will succeed at test level.

 

[Maximas]

He's a decent short form specialist

 

[Dan]

No.

 

[Red]

There's a couple of technical issues he needs to rectify, then he'll start making big FC runs then test runs. Test regular by 2016 and averaging 40 plus.

 

[uvelocity]

is a member of the illustrious bird name cricketers club, boasting such flyers as robin smith, graeme swann, martin crowe and of course jackson bird

 

[NUFAN]

is a member of the illustrious bird name cricketers club, boasting such flyers as robin smith, graeme swann, martin crowe and of course jackson bird

Since when was a bird a type of bird?

 

[Maximas]

Test regular by 2016 and averaging 40 plus.

If he's bowling last night was anything to go by this sounds like a decent prediction

 

[Red]

If he's bowling last night was anything to go by this sounds like a decent prediction

Bat and ball is correct

 

[Spikey]

nope

 

[Daemon]

When he was batting with Tendulkar yesterday I couldn't tell the two apart.

 

[uvelocity]

Since when was a bird a type of bird?

did i say type of bird name knucklehead? bird clearly the most powerful bird name of all

 

[NUFAN]

did i say type of bird name knucklehead? bird clearly the most powerful bird name of all

Oh sorry. It must have been your accent.

 

[uvelocity]

im sure they do talk different in glebe

 

[Burgey]

Doesn't Finch average about 10 in Shield cricket? The bloke clearly had an eye like a dead Jewy, but he's just a walking wicket against he new rock in FC games I've seen. He's so bottom-hand dominant and doesn't really move his feet at all. It would need a pretty major reconstruction of his game for him to succeed in long form cricket, and tbf to him, I don't know how keen you'd be to do that when you can take in big bikkies playing short form cricket anyway.

Also, if Burgeinho stayed leg side of the ball to spinners as often as Arun does, I would box his ears. My eyes bleed watching him do it.

 

[Riggins]

to the spinners?

 

[Burgey]

Yeah it ****s me no end how he gets balls on middle and leg which he could turn easily to the on side but for some reason moves to leg and tries to cut the ball, most often for no more than a single while exposing his stumps the way he does. It seems a high risk approach which negates a whole side of the field as a scoring zone. It's just something which ****s me for some reason. Probably because I spend six mnths a year telling kids if they back away I'll stand behind them in the nets with the pointy end of a stump an inch away from the middle of their back.

 

[Prince EWS]

Since when was a bird a type of bird?

He didn't say "type-of-bird name cricketers"; he said "bird name cricketers". Bird is definitely a bird name.

 

[Shri]

When he was batting with Tendulkar yesterday I couldn't tell the two apart.

Your midget sensor is shot then.

 

[Spark]

Yeah it ****s me no end how he gets balls on middle and leg which he could turn easily to the on side but for some reason moves to leg and tries to cut the ball, most often for no more than a single while exposing his stumps the way he does. It seems a high risk approach which negates a whole side of the field as a scoring zone. It's just something which ****s me for some reason. Probably because I spend six mnths a year telling kids if they back away I'll stand behind them in the nets with the pointy end of a stump an inch away from the middle of their back.

This so much.