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*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016

vic_orthdox

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Didn't watch any of the bowling in this game.

Think he's getting a bit of a rough time on here though, he's a product of where he's grown up - no-one in the world I'd rather bowling spin for me in Australia, and has spent too much time bowling at right handers throughout his time in the subcontinent; more a reflection on how Holland/other spinners have performed against SL, Pak & India.

In terms of ODI cricket though, those who were pushing for him to be picked in the WC Squad ahead of Doherty haven't been too loud about it now.
 

Prince EWS

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My most hated form of selection - decide who to drop (Maxwell) before who to pick, and now they've ended up with an unbalanced team.
The best (worst?) example of this in recent times was when Mangongo was Zimbabwe coach. He seemed to have it in his head that the reason Zimbabwe weren't a top six ODI team had nothing to do with the many structural reasons crippling them but was instead all due to administrative acceptance of mediocrity. He went on to drop everyone who didn't meet his standards, which were the sort of performance goals you'd expect from a top six team.

They were down to the third eleven pretty quickly. Unsurprisingly, results got worse rather than better.
 
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vic_orthdox

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Can this **** stop talking about the Under 19 World Cup from ten years ago, he's done it every ****ing time he's been on the mic this one day series and I already feel bad enough about staying up watching this.
 

mr_mister

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so i know it's trendy to hate on roads, but this pitch is spinning too much for my liking. why is spin dominating any better than batsmen dominating?
 

mr_mister

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yeah it just annoys me a team can get by loaded with 5-6 spinners and have clearly put **** all effort into developing pacemen
 

vic_orthdox

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It annoys me that a team can pick only one spinner in a world cup squad, put no time into any spinners and rely on pace to win a World Cup.
 

mr_mister

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and also it doesn't take a genius to realise pace is a harder skill to harnass than spin


any joe shmoe can roll his arm over and potentially be a max-effect spinner with the right pitch, look at Guptill recently
 

OverratedSanity

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and also it doesn't take a genius to realise pace is a harder skill to master than spin


any joe shmoe can roll his arm over and potentially be a max-effect spinner with the right pitch, look at Guptill recently
Lol literally any schmuk can jog up and run through a team on a greentop. Stuart Binny 6/4 #NeverForget
 

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