kuldeep will average 15 at most with the bat
I watched the last NZ test & most of the English batters will not have a prayer if they bat that way in the Ashes
He's the second most Australian off spinner I've ever seen play international cricket after Will Somerville - and neither of them are actually Australian.
They backed away mostly against Wagner. They generally just stand still and swing through the line.
I hope this is for Asian conditions. Because that top 3 would be regularly 30/3 in SENA countries
He showed great temperament at the big stage in Australia. Has the technique to be a good middle order bat (at no.5 or no.6). Has improved his attacking stroke play off late. All he needs to show is a consistently good temperament.
27 overall. home avg of 23-24.
Depends on where he bats, he can easily avg 25+ in Asia, outside Asia I expect low single digits but he can definitely stay at the wicket in relatively benign conditions.
I mean they did the same thing vs on some green seamers with a proper duke's ball vs nortje-ngidi-rabada-jansen, managed it vs NZ with some variation of southee-boult-jamieson-henry and managed it vs an indian attack that had siraj-shami-bumrah-jadeja-shardul. It may not come off all the time, it didn't in one game vs SA, but it's not like it's just worked on pakistan roads and vs NZ second 11's.
part of the plan to make our real batting start in the lower order and continue tradition
In the first 4 tests of the summer the balls were dog sh!t, in our test it was changed at least 10-12 times IIRC. In SA series they got a good batch but SA batting is even worse than Ireland over there!
To play domestic cricket and apparently he will be back for ODIs.
Obviously agree that Axar isn't as good as Jadeja and Ashwin. But I think he's been neutered a bit by Rohit not understanding how to exploit his strengths. Axar should have bowled early in the innings with the new-ish ball much more often than he has. He has the ability to get a fresher ball to skid very dangerously, but in this series he's usually brought in after every other bowler has already been given a long spell.
He is mentally lost. His confidence is shot after the selection treatment meted out.
The ball was dogshit after 20 overs.*
Bowling the donkey overs with the older ball is kind of the bread and butter of what makes a good spinner though.
My understanding is that he actually told the selectors not to consider him either before or just after the first game because he was bowling so poorly in the nets.
