PEWS gets it. If Aus lose their second wicket at 2-300 in the 42nd over, Maxy's going to come in, not Marnus. Better to look at his role not as a no. 7 but as the guy that comes in ideally after over 35.
This too. It was just a few series ago that Smith made consecutive 60-ball hundreds against India
Yes, I agree on ODI being a bit harsh from my side. But Smith still has to up his game since the ODIs are also going the T20 way nowadays with hitting starting right from ball one.
Does root need to up his game and start hitting from ball one? Root's ability to score at @90 batting 3 is what allows the rest of england's lineup to go bonkers and score 400+. You could argue that marnus maybe isn't needed and somoene like inglis, but morgan strikes at 92, marnus strikes at 91, both lineups are fine.
on the other hand i'd really hate for smith to miss a home summer on the off chance he gets injured doing pyjama cricket
But England has just one Root while all the others hit around him. They won't be getting that 400+ if there were two which is what Australia has. I am saying either one of Smith or Marnus is surplus when you need 300+ to defend nowadays. With Marnus having added ability to bowl, I was thinking Smith could be the one to be taken out.
Marnus has only been in the team for a few series, and in and out. Smith is a way better ODI batsman than Marnus, who should be behind all of Head, Khawaja and MMarsh in the ODI team. This is a ridiculous suggestion tbh.
Khawaja is dogshit when he doesn't open, averages 54 opening and under 30 when he doesn't. Head averages mid 31 when he doesn't open. Both of them have a sample size as large as marnus down the order and haven't performed to standard. Head is already in the squad as a backup opener and khawaja is 36, don't think CA want there backup opener to be 36 when both of there actual openers are the same age, leaves them with no expeienced openers when we move to the 2027 WC cycle. Wouldn't mind seeing marsh at 4, but he's already the prefered #5, i'm not a huge fan of
Maxwell is an atg in white ball stuff and has rarely had a role other than to smack it everywhere
I don't see Stoinis keeping his spot in a full strength team, or if Marsh is available
Yeah no obviously marsh is at 5 in a full strength team, not stoinis. Thought your post way saying marsh could bat 4 over marnus instead of 5, my b if that's not what you ment.
None of that is relevant to the batting order. We can all agree Maxwell is better than Marnus, but betterererer = highererer is low IQ nonsense. Get outta here.
Non existent IQ is batting Marnus ahead of Maxwell in white ball cricket
.... you literally seem to think being better automatically means you should bat higher. It's really not worth engaging further.
Marsh should be ahead of Marnus regardless of what position they bat from 3 to 7
One can go with this policy for 8-11 in tests but not anywhere else.
I mean swepson averages over 40 in list A and MATTY has outperformed him when bowling for the same state, swepson should never have been prioritising international white ball matches.
