Do people here believe Shakib is a better allrounder than Jayasuriya or Afridi? In limited overs, their bowling pedigree is similar while Jayasuriya's batting is far better. Just have Jayasuriya or Afridi in this team for Shakib and it gives the batting a menacing look.
Ah, foolish of me to think it's just rubbish posting, instead of simply acknowledging that Miyagi is 2smort4us*
Jayasuriya vs Shakib is tough. In the end I went with Watto over Symonds. But all 4 are ATG ODI cricketers IMO.
IMO Shakib's a long way off
He's really not. Jaya had Aravinda, Kalu, Sanga, Dislhan, Sanga Tilikiratne, et a; in batting with more like Attaptau and Gurusinghe, but who does Shakib have, Mr pro-bat-down-low Mahumudullah? If you focus on batting strength of the team, Shakib jumps up places - how many is upto you. On bowling - Shakib is going damn cheap in this money ball generation with only Mustafizur of yesterday in support - just look at SRH on roads let alone Banglawashes.
Dude - Australia is ranked 6th and still sliding. Who cares about them in ODI? They're not JAMODI - they're a JAMODITEAM. Scotland has a better peak performance right now. No offence.
Shakib's been playing since 2006 m8
Since 2006 - Australia has lost 4 ODI series in NZ and won one. How is Shakib doing? Noone cares about 6th ranked Straya as indicative of form to vist. 6th place is useless. It is a minnow. No offence. Seriously, Scotland is more of a threat to England than Australia. Australian ODI cricket is irrelevant right now. No offence.
M8 you're not offending anyone, don't worry. You're not saying anything relevant either though.
He's a lot better at home than away in ODIs with bat and ball. In tests he's exactly the same average home and away with bat and ball, so it's strange the disparity is so big in ODIs.
I'm glad I'm not. I'd hate to think anyone reading my posts would think that the irrelevant Australian ODI side is relevant - which is my point.
Excellent post, Australia is now in the era where the most misssed players are not Dean Jones, AB, McGrath or Warne but actually Symonds and Watson. The guys who were not appreciated at their time for being the awesome cricketers that they really really were. Even *Twatto. Because they're the guys that not every generation can replace so easily.
He is close for me to an ATG overall, obviously you don't want him playing against a stacked or ATG team though. I mean in general for a team in international cricket he's a great player across the three formats to have for a weaker side (and even a stronger side considering his overall test stats, ODI and t20i bowling stats).
I talk more **** about me own team than anyone on here. I'm hardly patriotic in the slightest. I know you're obsessed with it though clearly think I am because you try and bring it up all the ****ing time. You try to turn every discussion around to "Australia is ****" lately, even when no one is discussing anything related to it. It took you one post to try to turn this into an Aus v NZ argument.
