Denied about 6+ singles only to swing wildly and pop it to the 30 yard. As difficult to bat as it was in the later overs, it was just painful to watch. Tbf if there was someone else on the other end who could bat he would get those singles and be at an sr of 100. Not great but in the context not that bad either.
so a moderate downgrade
Exactly
Fair enough, but I didn't count those unavailable for selection for whatever reason, of people who could have been picked that weren't there really is not many
Well that kind of defeats the purpose
Hardly any purpose anyway considering you were clearly exaggerating. Not keen on throwing around these sort of sweeping statements for the sake of it
why not, it's great
Fairly sure he was picked for it initially for WA.
He is not even ATVG in T20s. 2 half centuries in 12 years of playing T20Is is not good enough. Also dot ball percentage is really high, probably among the worst ever in T20s. I am not talking about just the last match.
He's easily an ATG ODI cricketer. Even if you believe Gilchrist is ahead of him, he's still the second best ODI keeper. And many people would place him ahead of Gilchrist.
Umesh was worse than Soumya Sarkar though.
I was comparing him with Bevan. Would rate Dhoni and Glichrist about the same.
He somehow does well in every IPL. Even in the most recent IPL, he was instrumental in CSK winning it. But couldn't replicate the same in internationals.
international teams don't bowl axar patel in the last over...
125 is pretty trash, for a lot of his career India has had pretty solid top order batting in T20s and he has done nothing with the platforms given to him.
