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I agree the face stuff is over the line. It's not his fault he got the call.
I criticised the NZ bits and pieces spinner role because it didn't need to exist since our trip to the UAE in 2018. It weakened our bowling to use this player and CdG in the same eleven. Santner is not a container just because he doesn't get wickets, he's just a white ball 'go at 3 an over' dude which makes him a weapon there. Ajaz or Somerville should have been given a run instead. Instead they were both dicked around and the establishment is shocked they initially suck when we drag them back for the odd game in Asia.
Hesson invested in spinners. It didn't work, but he tried. Stead chose to ignore them and that's fine if he wanted to play to our strengths, but that also means you can't expect the bowlers you don't rate to all of a sudden be good when called up in Asia or the odd SENA test (thinking Somerville at Sydney here).
But if it must exist, SteveNZ and whoever were correct to say Macewell had not earned it - in his 12 Shield seasons he has averaged under 30 with the bat in 6 of them, and averaged 40+ in 5, including 2020-21. He appears to be a very boom bust batsman, scoring 8 of his 11 tons in 2 seasons. That leaves 3 centuries across the remaining 10 (9 and a half tbf to his truncated first).
With the ball, well there's little evidence at all. He has 27 Shield wickets. Most domestic spinners have taken more in a season multiple times. Fair enough if his record was h4x over the short period and we rushed him in (this happens with bowlers globally all the time) but it wasn't.
He was coming off a bust season with the bat (average 19) and no bowling performances to speak of. It was a terrible squad selection. His rivals for the role Rachin Ravindra and especially Cole McConchie have been monstering him.
I also disagree on finding a project - we had 2 - we just refused to acknowledge their existence.
This post is too long so on his 50 over record I'll just say it shows a similar trend. His most recent Ford Trophy was a disaster with the stick though his bowling appears steady but unexceptional.
He has done very well so far so if he wins us a world cup it will be rightly seen as a genius punt.
I criticised the NZ bits and pieces spinner role because it didn't need to exist since our trip to the UAE in 2018. It weakened our bowling to use this player and CdG in the same eleven. Santner is not a container just because he doesn't get wickets, he's just a white ball 'go at 3 an over' dude which makes him a weapon there. Ajaz or Somerville should have been given a run instead. Instead they were both dicked around and the establishment is shocked they initially suck when we drag them back for the odd game in Asia.
Hesson invested in spinners. It didn't work, but he tried. Stead chose to ignore them and that's fine if he wanted to play to our strengths, but that also means you can't expect the bowlers you don't rate to all of a sudden be good when called up in Asia or the odd SENA test (thinking Somerville at Sydney here).
But if it must exist, SteveNZ and whoever were correct to say Macewell had not earned it - in his 12 Shield seasons he has averaged under 30 with the bat in 6 of them, and averaged 40+ in 5, including 2020-21. He appears to be a very boom bust batsman, scoring 8 of his 11 tons in 2 seasons. That leaves 3 centuries across the remaining 10 (9 and a half tbf to his truncated first).
With the ball, well there's little evidence at all. He has 27 Shield wickets. Most domestic spinners have taken more in a season multiple times. Fair enough if his record was h4x over the short period and we rushed him in (this happens with bowlers globally all the time) but it wasn't.
He was coming off a bust season with the bat (average 19) and no bowling performances to speak of. It was a terrible squad selection. His rivals for the role Rachin Ravindra and especially Cole McConchie have been monstering him.
I also disagree on finding a project - we had 2 - we just refused to acknowledge their existence.
This post is too long so on his 50 over record I'll just say it shows a similar trend. His most recent Ford Trophy was a disaster with the stick though his bowling appears steady but unexceptional.
He has done very well so far so if he wins us a world cup it will be rightly seen as a genius punt.
